Manage It!

Name: Manage It! | Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management
Brand: Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management

Johanna Rothman(Autor*in)

Pragmatic Bookshelf (Verlag)

Erschienen am 7. Juni 2007

365 Seiten

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Intro
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Starting a Project
Define Projects and Project Managers
Manage Your Drivers, Constraints, and Floats
Discuss Your Project Constraints with Your Client or Sponsor
Decide on a Driver for Your Project
Manage Sponsors Who Want to Overconstrain Your Project
Write a Project Charter to Share These Decisions
Know What Quality Means for Your Project
Planning the Project
Start the Wheels Turning
Plan Just Enough to Start
Develop a Project Plan Template
Define Release Criteria
Use Release Criteria
Using Life Cycles to Design Your Project
Understanding Project Life Cycles
Overview of Life Cycles
Seeing Feedback in the Project
Larger Projects Might Have Multiple Combinations of Life Cycles
Managing Architectural Risk
Paddling Your Way Out of a Waterfall
My Favorite Life Cycles
Scheduling the Project
Pragmatic Approaches to Project Scheduling
Select from These Scheduling Techniques
Start Scheduling with a Low-Tech Tool
Estimating the Work
Pragmatic Approaches to Project Estimation
Milestones Define Your Project's Chunks
How Little Can You Do?
Estimating with Multitasking
Scheduling People to Multitask by Design
Using Rolling-Wave Scheduling
Deciding on an Iteration Duration
Estimating Using Inch-Pebbles Wherever Possible
Recognizing and Avoiding Schedule Games
Bring Me a Rock
Hope Is Our Most Important Strategy
Queen of Denial
Sweep Under the Rug
Happy Date
Pants on Fire
Split Focus
Schedule Equals Commitment
We'll Know Where We Are When We Get There
The Schedule Tool Is Always Right
We Gotta Have It
We're Toast Without It
We Can't Say No
Schedule Chicken
90% Done
We'll Go Faster Now
Schedule Trance
Creating a Great Project Team
Recruit the People You Need
Help the Team Jell
Make Your Organization Work for You
Know How Large a Team You Need
Know When to Add More People
Become a Great Project Manager
Know When It's Time to Leave
Steering the Project
Steer the Project with Rhythm
Conduct Interim Retrospectives
Rank the Requirements
Timebox Requirements Work
Timebox Iterations to Four or Fewer Weeks
Use Rolling-Wave Planning and Scheduling
Create a Cross-Functional Project Team
Select a Life Cycle Based on Your Project's Risks
Keep Reasonable Work Hours
Use Inch-Pebbles
Manage Interruptions
Manage Defects Starting at the Beginning of the Project
Maintaining Project Rhythm
Adopt or Adapt Continuous Integration for Your Project
Create Automated Smoke Tests for the Build
Implement by Feature, Not by Architecture
Get Multiple Sets of Eyes on Work Products
Plan to Refactor
Utilize Use Cases, User Stories, Personas, and Scenarios to Define Requirements
Separate GUI Design from Requirements
Use Low-Fidelity Prototyping as Long as Possible
Managing Meetings
Cancel These Meetings
Conduct These Types of Meetings
Project Kickoff Meetings
Release Planning Meetings
Status Meetings
Reporting Status to Management
Project Team Meetings
Iteration Review Meetings
Troubleshooting Meetings
Manage Conference Calls with Remote Teams
Creating and Using a Project Dashboard
Measurements Can Be Dangerous
Measure Progress Toward Project Completion
Develop a Project Dashboard for Sponsors
Use a Project Weather Report
Managing Multisite Projects
What Does a Question Cost You?
Identify Your Project's Cultural Differences
Build Trust Among the Teams
Use Complementary Practices on a Team-by-Team Basis
Look for Potential Multisite Project and Multicultural Problems
Avoid These Mistakes When Outsourcing
Integrating Testing into the Project
Start People with a Mind-Set Toward Reducing Technical Debt
Reduce Risks with Small Tests
TDD Is the Easiest Way to Integrate Testing into Your Project
Use a Wide Variety of Testing Techniques
Define Every Team Member's Testing Role
What's the Right Developer-to-Tester Ratio?
Make the Testing Concurrent with Development
Define a Test Strategy for Your Project
System Test Strategy Template
There's a Difference Between QA and Test
Managing Programs
When Your Project Is a Program
Organizing Multiple Related Projects into One Release
Organizing Multiple Related Projects Over Time
Managing Project Managers
Creating a Program Dashboard
Completing a Project
Managing Requests for Early Release
Managing Beta Releases
When You Know You Can't Meet the Release Date
Shepherding the Project to Completion
Canceling a Project
Managing the Project Portfolio
Build the Portfolio of All Projects
Evaluate the Projects
Decide Which Projects to Fund Now
Rank-Order the Portfolio
Start Projects Faster
Manage the Demand for New Features with a Product Backlog
Troubleshoot Portfolio Management
More Detailed Information About Life Cycles
Serial Life Cycle: Waterfall or Phase-Gate
Iterative Life Cycle: Spiral, Evolutionary Prototyping, Unified Process
Incremental Life Cycle: Staged Delivery, Design to Schedule
Agile Life Cycles
Glossary of Terms
Bibliography
Index
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