Table of Contents

• Part I: EFFICIENT DEVELOPMENT
  • Chapter 1: Welcome to Rapid Development
  • Chapter 2: Rapid-Development Strategy
  • Chapter 3: Classic Mistakes
  • Chapter 4: Software-Development Fundamentals
  • Chapter 5: Risk Management
• Part II: RAPID DEVELOPMENT
  • Chapter 6: Core Issues in Rapid Development
  • Chapter 7: Lifecycle Planning
  • Chapter 8: Estimation
  • Chapter 9: Scheduling
  • Chapter 10: Customer-Oriented Development
  • Chapter 11: Motivation
  • Chapter 12: Teamwork
  • Chapter 13: Team Structure
  • Chapter 14: Feature-Set Control
  • Chapter 15: Productivity Tools
  • Chapter 16: Project Recovery
• Part III: BEST PRACTICES
  • Introduction to Best Practices
  • Chapter 17: Change Board
  • Chapter 18: Daily Build and Smoke Test
  • Chapter 19: Designing for Change
  • Chapter 20: Evolutionary Delivery
  • Chapter 21: Evolutionary Prototyping
  • Chapter 22: Goal Setting
  • Chapter 23: Inspections
  • Chapter 24: Joint Application Development (JAD)
  • Chapter 25: Lifecycle Model Selection
  • Chapter 26: Measurement
  • Chapter 27: Miniature Milestones
  • Chapter 28: Outsourcing
  • Chapter 29: Principled Negotiation
  • Chapter 30: Productivity Environments
  • Chapter 31: Rapid-Development Languages (RDLs)
  • Chapter 32: Requirements Scrubbing
  • Chapter 33: Reuse
  • Chapter 34: Signing Up
  • Chapter 35: Spiral Lifecycle Model
  • Chapter 36: Staged Delivery
  • Chapter 37: Theory-W Management
  • Chapter 38: Throwaway Prototyping
  • Chapter 39: Timebox Development
  • Chapter 40: Tools Group
  • Chapter 41: Top-10 Risks List
  • Chapter 42: User-Interface Prototyping
  • Chapter 43: Voluntary Overtime
• Bibliography

About the Author

Steve McConnell is recognised as one of the premier authors and voices in the development community. He is Chief Software Engineer of Construx Software and was the lead developer of Construx Estimate and of SPC Estimate Professional, winner of Software Development magazine's Productivity Award. He is the author of several books, including Code Complete and Rapid Development, both honored with Software Development magazine's Jolt Award.