Ship It!

A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects

von William A Gwaltney, Jared Richardson

208 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Ship It! is a collection of tips that show the tools and techniques a successful project team has to use, and how to use them well. You'll get quick, easy-to-follow advice on modern practices: which to use, and when they should be applied. This book avoids current fashion trends and marketing hype; instead, readers find page after page of solid advice, all tried and tested in the real world. Aimed at beginning to intermediate programmers, Ship It! will show you:- Which tools help, and which don't- How to keep a project moving- Approaches to scheduling that work- How to build developers as well as product- What's normal on a project, and what's not- How to manage managers, end-users and sponsors- Danger signs and how to fix themFew of the ideas presented here are controversial or extreme; most experiencedprogrammers will agree that this stuff works. Yet 50 to 70 percent of allproject teams in the U.S. aren't able to use even these simple, well-acceptedpractices effectively. This book will help you get started.Ship It! begins by introducing the common technicalinfrastructure that every project needs to get the job done. Readerscan choose from a variety of recommended technologies according totheir skills and budgets. The next sections outline the necessarysteps to get software out the door reliably, using well-accepted,easy-to-adopt, best-of-breed practices that really work.Finally, and most importantly, Ship It! presents commonproblems that teams face, then offers real-world advice on how tosolve them.

• ISBN: 9780974514048
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 05.07.2005
• Größe: 228 x 192 mm
• Verlag: Pragmatic Programmers