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J optimization, schedule, 60
organization, managing, 238–243
JUnit, 157 organizational needs, schedule and, 58
outsourced projects
K communication, 257
estimates, 259, 269
Keynes, John Maynard, 213
kickoff meeting, Wideband Delphi management issues, 260–267
process, 42 reviews, 271
knowledge transfer schedule, 270
inspections and, 82 sources of failure, 256–259
outsourcing and, 268 vendor collaboration, 268–276
over-allocation, 67
L overhead, 44, 55
leadership, problems with, 30 P
M padded estimates, distrust and, 50
pair programming, 91
main stakeholder Parkinson, C. Northcote, 56
relationship with, 18 Parkinson’s Law, tasks and, 61
(see also stakeholders) Percentage of Engineering Effort metric, 196
management performance plans, 238
organization, 238–243 performance testing, 181
outsourced projects, 260–267 performance tracking, schedule, 63
team, 243–254 person-hours, 55
managers phased release, vision and scope
accountability, 234 document, 22
authority, 233 planning (see project planning)
communication, 236–238 The Planning Game, 49
responsibility, 232–236 postconditions, use summary, 106
man-hours (see person-hours) postmortem reports, 186–189
maturity of process, 280 estimation and, 34
Mean Defect Discovery Rate metric, 195 in the project schedule, 60
metrics practices in book, 6
Defect Age, 196 preconditions, use cases, 106
Defect Density, 196 predecessors, 56–58
Defect Resolution Rate, 195 misunderstood, 71–72
Defects per Project Phase, 195 prioritization, multiple projects, 68
introduction, 195 PROBE (Proxy Based Estimating), 48
Mean Defect Discovery Rate, 195 process
Percentage of Engineering Effort, 196 change and, 281
milestone reviews, 59 formal, 278
mitigation plan, 27 maturity, 280
models, software process improvement, 283 software process improvement, 282–293
moderator, inspection team, 76 The Process Group, 39
multiple projects process script, 9
dependencies between projects, 66 programming, diagnosing problems, 167
prioritization and, 68 progress reviews, 59
project automation, 165–166
N project background, vision and scope
document, 20
needs, organizational, schedule and, 58 project manager
NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here), 208 main stakeholder and
nonfunctional requirements, SRS, 113
relationship, 18
scope and, 17
O project plan
observation, requirements elicitation checklist, 28
and, 101 creation, 23–30
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