Planning Smarter: Creating Blueprint–Quality Software Specifications

Description

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Software planning and specification development: no fluff—just results!

• Create better specifications–with less complexity, and less work!
• Best practices that work with any language or development environment
• CD–ROM exclusive: Software Blueprinter, a powerful software application for real–world specification development
• For all software team members: developers, architects, managers, clients, and software quality specialists

Planning Smarter demystifies software planning, cuts out to the chase, and shows exactly how to create higher quality, more useful specifications with less complexity and less work! Tyson Gill presents a complete blueprint for improving the quality of your software specifications, reducing errors and omissions, simplifying planning, and establishing a rock–solid foundation for any software development project. Coverage includes:

• Understanding the planning process–and why it so often fails
• Getting the planning process "just right" and identifying the best lifecycle approach
• Optimizing the communication that is critical to successful planning
• 13 powerful strategies for more effective requirements development
• Planning in the context of leading software process models: CMM, MSF, UML, and RUP
• Recognizing and making effective use of planning metadata

Planning Smarter is an invaluable resource for every member of the software development project team. It will help executives and clients understand the key factors associated with success–and it will give planners, developers, architects, and team leaders the proven techniques they need to build specifications that work.

The accompanying CD–ROM contains Software Blueprinter, a powerful specification development application that embodies the key principles in this book.

Author Bios

TYSON GILL is senior consultant with Solutions Consulting Group, in San Diego, CA. He also teaches Visual Basic and Microsoft .Net programming at the University of California, San Diego. He has contributed to several books and is author of the highly regarded Visual Basic 6: Error Coding and Layering (Prentice Hall PTR).