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Skills for Managing Rapidly Changing IT Projects

By: Fabrizio Fioravanti

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Hardcover | 30 November 2005

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Skills for Managing Rapidly Changing IT Projects addresses management methodologies for projects that change rapidly in requirements and technology. These projects are most common among small to medium enterprises. This book addresses both the value and the skills that an IT project manager must have, and uses these values in a new methodology based on agile manifesto. This new methodology, called agile and defined project development (ADPD) merges the must be of agile manifesto with the needs of a controlled development environment such as that of the capability maturity model, which deals with aspects related to UML formalism.

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Non-Fiction Business & Management Management & Management Techniques Project Management Computing & I.T.Information Technology General Issue Computer Science

Preface	p. x
Acknowledgments	p. xii

Team Working	p. 1
Values	p. 2
Communication	p. 2
Simplicity	p. 3
Feedback	p. 3
Creating the Group	p. 4
Common Practices for Team Working	p. 6
Time Management	p. 10
Values	p. 10
Simplicity	p. 10
Courage	p. 11
Daily Activities	p. 12
Weekly Planning	p. 14
Monthly Strategy	p. 14
Tools for Time Management	p. 15
Conclusion	p. 17
References	p. 18
Presentation	p. 20
Values	p. 21
Communication	p. 21
Prepare the Presentation	p. 21
Online Presentations	p. 21
Presentations with Slides	p. 23
Paper Presentations	p. 27
Prepare the Speech	p. 28
Online Presentations	p. 29
Presentations with Slides	p. 30
Paper Presentations	p. 32
The Speech	p. 33
The Voice	p. 33
The Body	p. 34
The Appearance	p. 34
The Look	p. 34
Training	p. 36
Values	p. 37
Communication	p. 37
Simplicity	p. 37
Feedback	p. 38
Training in Practice	p. 38
Train Your Team	p. 39
Train the Customer	p. 41
Train the Partner	p. 42
People Management	p. 44
Values	p. 45
Communication	p. 45
Feedback	p. 46
People Management in Practice	p. 47
Team Motivation	p. 48
Dealing with Problems	p. 48
Tools for People Management	p. 50
People in the Project: How Many?	p. 51
References	p. 54
Delegation	p. 56
Values	p. 56
Simplicity	p. 56
Feedback	p. 57
Courage	p. 57
Delegation at Work	p. 58
Target of Delegation Activity	p. 58
What Can You Delegate?	p. 59
How Can You Delegate?	p. 59
References	p. 61

The Target Business Environment	p. 64
Project Lifetime	p. 66
Project Effort	p. 67
Project Type	p. 67
Project Technology	p. 68
People Factor	p. 69
References	p. 69
Classical Methodologies, Techniques, and Tools for Project Management	p. 72
Waterfall Life Cycle	p. 73
Feasibility Study	p. 73
Analysis	p. 74
Project Specification	p. 75
Development	p. 75
Integration and Test	p. 76
Deployment	p. 76
Maintenance	p. 77
Prototyping Life Cycle	p. 77
Requirements	p. 78
Fast Projects	p. 79
Prototyping	p. 79
Requirement Review	p. 80
Engineered Product	p. 80
Spiral Life Cycle	p. 81
Objectives and Bounds	p. 82
Evaluate Alternatives	p. 83
Develop and Verify	p. 84
Planning	p. 84
Risk Management	p. 84
Target and Benefit of Risk Analysis	p. 86
Risk Indicators	p. 86
Risk Evaluation	p. 87
Risk Control	p. 91
References	p. 93
Agile Development	p. 95
Individuals and Interactions Over Process and Tools	p. 96
Actions	p. 97
Benefits	p. 97
Side Effects	p. 97
Overdose	p. 98
Working Software Over Comprehensive Documentation	p. 98
Actions	p. 99
Benefits	p. 99
Side Effects	p. 100
Overdose	p. 101
Customer Collaboration Over Contract Negotiation	p. 101
Actions	p. 101
Benefits	p. 102
Side Effects	p. 102
Overdose	p. 102
Responding to Change Over Following a Plan	p. 103
Actions	p. 103
Benefits	p. 103
Side Effects	p. 104
Overdose	p. 104
The Agile Team	p. 104
References	p. 106
eXtreme Programming	p. 108
XP Values	p. 109
Communication	p. 109
Simplicity	p. 110
Feedback	p. 110
Courage	p. 111
XP Rules	p. 112
Metaphor	p. 112
Planning Game	p. 114
Small Releases	p. 116
Tests	p. 118
Simple Design	p. 119
Refactoring	p. 120
Pair Programming	p. 121
Continuous Integration	p. 122
Collective Ownership	p. 123
On-Site Customer	p. 124
Forty-Hour Weeks	p. 125
Coding Standards	p. 125
Conclusion	p. 126
Life Cycle of an XP Project	p. 130
References	p. 132
Agile and Defined Project Development	p. 134
ADPD Life Cycle	p. 135
Walking Skeleton Phase	p. 138
Release Phase	p. 140
ADPD Practices	p. 140
Analysis and Design Practices	p. 140
Development Practices	p. 143
Test Practices	p. 147
Deployment and Release Practices	p. 150
General and Management Practices	p. 151
References	p. 156
ADPD and SW-CMM	p. 158
KPA 2.1 Requirement Management	p. 160
KPA 2.2 Software Project Planning	p. 161
KPA 2.3 Software Project Tracking and Oversight	p. 162
KPA 2.4 Software Subcontract Management	p. 163
KPA 2.5 Software Quality Assurance	p. 163
KPA 2.6 Software Configuration Management	p. 165
KPA 3.1 Organization Process Focus	p. 165
KPA 3.2 Organization Process Definition	p. 167
KPA 3.3 Training Program	p. 168
KPA 3.4 Integrated Software Management	p. 169
KPA 3.5 Software Product Engineering	p. 170
KPA 3.6 Intergroup Coordination	p. 171
KPA 3.7 Peer Reviews	p. 171
Conclusion	p. 172
References	p. 174
ADPD and UML Adoption	p. 176
UML in Short	p. 177
UML and ADPD Life Cycle	p. 179
Walking Skeleton Phase	p. 179
Release Phase	p. 186
References	p. 189
Software Measurement	p. 191
Metric Taxonomy	p. 192
Functional Metrics	p. 194
Line of Code	p. 194
Cyclomatic Complexity	p. 196
The COCOMO Model	p. 198
Toward Object-Oriented Metrics	p. 201
Object-Oriented Metrics Overview	p. 202
Chidamber and Kemerer Suite	p. 203
Li and Henry Metrics	p. 204
Thomas and Jacobson Class Complexity	p. 205
Henderson-Sellers Class Complexity	p. 206
TAC++ Framework	p. 206
Quality in Use Metrics	p. 215
Fault Proneness Metrics	p. 215
Project Metrics	p. 216
Cognitive Metrics	p. 218
Duplication Analysis Metrics	p. 219
References	p. 220
Project Maintenance	p. 224
Maintenance Models	p. 224
Corrective Maintenance	p. 225
Adaptive Maintenance	p. 225
Preventive Maintenance	p. 226
Maintenance in Classical Methodology	p. 227
Maintenance in Agile Methodologies	p. 228
Metric and Models for Estimation of Maintenance Effort	p. 229
CC-Based Metrics for Maintenance	p. 233
NAM-Based Metric for Maintenance	p. 233
Other Metrics for Maintenance	p. 234
Metrics and Model for Fault Detection	p. 234
	p. 235
	p. 236
	p. 237
	p. 238
Conclusion	p. 239
References	p. 239
About the Author	p. 242
Index	p. 243
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