Death March: The Complete Software Developer's Guide to Surviving "Mission Impossible" Projects - Couverture rigide

Yourdon, Edward

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ISBN 10 : 0137483104 ISBN 13 : 9780137483105

Editeur : Prentice Hall, 1997

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The complete software developer's guide to surviving projects that are “doomed to fail.”

In the course of a career, practically every software developer and manager will encounter projects with outrageous staffing, scheduling, budgeting, or feature constraints: projects that seem destined to fail. In the wake of re-engineering, such “Death March” projects have become a way of life in many organizations.

• Surviving projects that are “doomed to fail” !
• Negotiating the best deal up-front.
• Managing people and setting priorities.
• Choosing tools and technologies.
• When it's time to walk away.

Now, best-selling author Edward Yourdon brings his unique technology and management insights to the worst IS projects, showing how to maximize your chances of success—and, if nothing else, how to make sure your career survives them.

Yourdon walks step-by-step through the entire project life cycle, showing both managers and developers how to deal with the politics of “Death March” projects—and how to make the most of the available resources, including people, tools, processes, and technology.

Learn how to negotiate for the flexibility you need, how to set priorities that make sense—and when to simply walk away. Discover how to recognize the tell-tale signs of a “Death March” project—or an organization that breeds them.

If you've ever been asked to do the impossible, Death March is the book you've been waiting for.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Historically, all software projects have involved a certain degree of risk and pressure -- but many of the projects in today's chaotic business environment involve such intense pressure that they are referred to colloquially as "death-march" projects -- i.e., projects whose schedules are so compressed, and/or whose budgets, or resource (people) assignments are so constrained, that the only "obvious" way to succeed is for the entire team to work 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, with no vacations until the project is finished. While the corporate goal of such projects is to overcome impossible odds and achieve miracles, the personal goal of the project manager and team members often shrinks down to mere survival: keeping one's job, maintaining some semblance of a relationship with one's spouse and children, and avoiding a heart attack or ulcer. This new and thoroughly-updated edition of Ed Yourdon's book takes into account many of the changes that have taken place in the more than six years since the publication of the first edition.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Prentice Hall
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0137483104
• ISBN 13: 9780137483105
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 227