Righting Software

Table of contents

1. Cover Page
2. About This eBook
3. Half Title Page
4. Title Page
5. Copyright Page
6. Dedication Page
7. Contents
8. Preface
   1. How This Book Is Organized
   2. Some Assumptions About the Reader
   3. What You Need to Use This Book
   4. Conventions Used in This Book
   5. Additional Online Resources
   6. Acknowledgments
9. About the Author
10. 1. The Method
    1. What Is The Method?
    2. What The Method Is Not
11. Part I: System Design
    1. 2. Decomposition
       1. Avoid Functional Decomposition
       2. Volatility-Based Decomposition
       3. Identifying Volatility
    2. 3. Structure
       1. Use Cases and Requirements
       2. Layered Approach
       3. Typical Layers
       4. Classification Guidelines
       5. Subsystems and Services
       6. Open and Closed Architectures
    3. 4. Composition
       1. Requirements and Changes
       2. Composable Design
       3. There Is No Feature
       4. Handling Change
    4. 5. System Design Example
       1. System Overview
       2. The Anti-Design Effort
       3. Business Alignment
       4. The Architecture
       5. Design Validation
       6. What’s Next?
12. Part II: Project Design
    1. 6. Motivation
       1. Why Project Design?
    2. 7. Project Design Overview
       1. Defining Success
       2. Project Initial Staffing
       3. Educated Decisions
       4. Services and Developers
       5. Effort Estimations
       6. Critical Path Analysis
       7. Scheduling Activities
       8. Project Cost
       9. Earned Value Planning
       10. Roles and Responsibilities
    3. 8. Network and Float
       1. The Network Diagram
       2. Floats
       3. Floats-Based Scheduling
    4. 9. Time and Cost
       1. Accelerating Software Projects
       2. Schedule Compression
       3. Time–Cost Curve
       4. Avoiding Classic Mistakes
       5. Project Cost Elements
       6. Network Compression
    5. 10. Risk
       1. Choosing Options
       2. Time–Risk Curve
       3. Risk Modeling
       4. Compression and Risk
       5. Risk Decompression
       6. Risk Metrics
    6. 11. Project Design in Action
       1. The Mission
       2. Finding the Normal Solution
       3. Network Compression
       4. Efficiency Analysis
       5. Time–Cost Curve
       6. Planning and Risk
       7. SDP Review
    7. 12. Advanced Techniques
       1. God Activities
       2. Risk Crossover Point
       3. Finding the Decompression Target
       4. Geometric Risk
       5. Execution Complexity
       6. Very Large Projects
       7. Small Projects
       8. Design by Layers
    8. 13. Project Design Example
       1. Estimations
       2. Dependencies and Project Network
       3. The Normal Solution
       4. Compressed Solution
       5. Design by Layers
       6. Subcritical Solution
       7. Comparing the Options
       8. Planning and Risk
       9. Preparing for the SDP Review
    9. 14. Concluding Thoughts
       1. When to Design a Project
       2. General Guidelines
       3. Design of Project Design
       4. In Perspective
       5. The Hand-Off
       6. In Practice
       7. Debriefing Project Design
       8. About Quality
13. Appendices
    1. A. Project Tracking
       1. Activity Life Cycle and Status
       2. Project Status
       3. Tracking Progress and Effort
       4. Projections
       5. Projections and Corrective Actions
       6. More on Projections
    2. B. Service Contract Design
       1. Is This a Good Design?
       2. Modularity and Cost
       3. Services and Contracts
       4. Factoring Contracts
       5. Contract Design Metrics
       6. The Contract Design Challenge
    3. C. Design Standard
       1. The Prime Directive
       2. Directives
       3. System Design Guidelines
       4. Project Design Guidelines
       5. Project Tracking Guidelines
       6. Service Contract Design Guidelines
14. Index
15. Code Snippets