Software project management: a unified framework

✍ Scribed by Royce, Walker

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Year: 1998;2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 438
• Series: The Addison-Wesley object technology series
• Edition: 13th pr
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Software Project Management presents a new management framework uniquely suited to the complexities of modern software development. Walker Royce's pragmatic perspective exposes the shortcomings of many well-accepted management priorities and equips software professionals with state-of-the-art knowledge derived from his twenty years of successful from-the-trenches project management experience.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 14
List of Tables......Page 18
Foreword......Page 22
Preface......Page 24
PART I: SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT RENAISSANCE......Page 30
CHAPTER 1 Conventional Software Management......Page 34
1.1 The Waterfall Model......Page 35
1.2 Conventional Software Management Performance......Page 46
2.1 Software Economics......Page 50
2.2 Pragmatic Software Cost Estimation......Page 55
CHAPTER 3 Improving Software Economics......Page 60
3.1 Reducing Software Product Size......Page 62
3.2 Improving Software Processes......Page 69
3.3 Improving Team Effectiveness......Page 72
3.4 Improving Automation through Software Environments......Page 75
3.5 Achieving Required Quality......Page 77
3.6 Peer Inspections: A Pragmatic View......Page 80
4.1 The Principles of Conventional Software Engineering......Page 84
4.2 The Principles of Modern Software Management......Page 92
4.3 Transitioning to an Iterative Process......Page 95
PART II: A SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT PROCESS FRAMEWORK......Page 98
CHAPTER 5 Life-Cycle Phases......Page 102
5.1 Engineering and Production Stages......Page 103
5.2 Inception Phase......Page 105
5.3 Elaboration Phase......Page 106
5.4 Construction Phase......Page 108
5.5 Transition Phase......Page 109
CHAPTER 6 Artifacts of the Process......Page 112
6.1 The Artifact Sets......Page 113
6.2 Management Artifacts......Page 125
6.3 Engineering Artifacts......Page 132
6.4 Pragmatic Artifacts......Page 134
CHAPTER 7 Model-Based Software Architectures......Page 138
7.1 Architecture: A Management Perspective......Page 139
7.2 Architecture: A Technical Perspective......Page 140
CHAPTER 8 Workflows of the Process......Page 146
8.1 Software Process Workflows......Page 147
8.2 Iteration Workflows......Page 150
CHAPTER 9 Checkpoints of the Process......Page 154
9.1 Major Milestones......Page 155
9.2 Minor Milestones......Page 161
9.3 Periodic Status Assessments......Page 162
PART III: SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT DISCIPLINES......Page 164
10.1 Work Breakdown Structures......Page 168
10.2 Planning Guidelines......Page 175
10.3 The Cost and Schedule Estimating Process......Page 178
10.4 The Iteration Planning Process......Page 179
10.5 Pragmatic Planning......Page 182
CHAPTER 11 Project Organizations and Responsibilities......Page 184
11.1 Line-of-Business Organizations......Page 185
11.2 Project Organizations......Page 187
11.3 Evolution of Organizations......Page 194
CHAPTER 12 Process Automation......Page 196
12.1 Tools: Automation Building Blocks......Page 197
12.2 The Project Environment......Page 201
CHAPTER 13 Project Control and Process Instrumentation......Page 216
13.1 The Seven Core Metrics......Page 217
13.2 Management Indicators......Page 219
13.3 Quality Indicators......Page 225
13.4 Life-Cycle Expectations......Page 228
13.5 Pragmatic Software Metrics......Page 230
13.6 Metrics Automation......Page 231
14.1 Process Discriminants......Page 238
14.2 Example: Small-Scale Project versus Large-Scale Project......Page 247
PART IV: LOOKING FORWARD......Page 250
CHAPTER 15 Modern Project Profiles......Page 254
15.1 Continuous Integration......Page 255
15.2 Early Risk Resolution......Page 256
15.3 Evolutionary Requirements......Page 257
15.4 Teamwork among Stakeholders......Page 258
15.5 Top 10 Software Management Principles......Page 260
15.6 Software Management Best Practices......Page 261
16.1 Next-Generation Cost Models......Page 266
16.2 Modern Software Economics......Page 271
CHAPTER 17 Modern Process Transitions......Page 276
17.1 Culture Shifts......Page 277
17.2 Denouement......Page 280
PART V: CASE STUDIES AND BACKUP MATERIAL......Page 284
APPENDIX A: The State of the Practice in Software Management......Page 288
APPENDIX B: The COCOMO Cost Estimation Model......Page 294
B.1 COCOMO......Page 295
B.2 Ada COCOMO......Page 298
B.3 COCOMO II......Page 303
APPENDIX C: Change Metrics......Page 312
C.1 Overview......Page 313
C.2 Metrics Derivation......Page 315
C.3 Pragmatic Change Metrics......Page 326
APPENDIX D: CCPDS-R Case Study......Page 328
D.1 Context for the Case Study......Page 329
D.2 Common Subsystem Overview......Page 330
D.3 Project Organization......Page 333
D.4 Common Subsystem Product Overview......Page 334
D.5 Process Overview......Page 339
D.6 Demonstration-Based Assessment......Page 355
D.7 Core Metrics......Page 366
D.8 Other Metrics......Page 377
D.9 People Factors......Page 385
D.10 Conclusions......Page 388
E.1 CMM Overview......Page 392
E.2 Pragmatic Process Improvement......Page 395
E.3 Maturity Questionnaire......Page 396
E.4 Questions Not Asked by the Maturity Questionnaire......Page 416
E.5 Overall Process Assessment......Page 419
C......Page 420
E......Page 421
M......Page 422
P......Page 423
S......Page 424
W......Page 425
References......Page 426
C......Page 430
E......Page 431
M......Page 432
P......Page 433
S......Page 434
W......Page 435

✦ Subjects

Business;Management;Reference