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Best Practices for Software Projects - Risk Management.
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Beyond Broken Links. More...
Minimizing Software Defects via Inspections.
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Common Software Project Management Mistakes
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Normally projects fail due to issues with:
Personnel - These issues range from wrong skill sets to bad work environments.
Project Management - These issues relate to improper processes and techniques
for managing projects.
Application - These are issues with the application itself.
Technology - These are issues with the technology chosen for the application.
This article, it will focus on Project Management issues, it will cover the other issues in subsequent newsletters.
Below are the common project management mistakes relating to Project Management:
Formalize Requirements Gathering - Too often, requirements are scribbled on a napkin -or-
communicated via phone calls. The best approach to requirements gathering is to hold Joint Application Development
(JAD) sessions. JAD sessions are a set of intense meetings held off-site where executives, developers, and end-users
define the exact requirements needed by a software solution. By holding JAD sessions, your team can more quickly
define requirements, get executive buy-in, eliminate irrelevant requirements and reduce political jockeying between
team members. More...
Lack of Design - Before projects can be estimated, they must be designed.
Many teams by pass this step, estimating the efforts without detailed knowledge of what is needed to deliver each
requirement. More...
Poor Estimating - Another common mistake is to poorly estimate projects.
This is done by inexperienced project managers that do not account for all tasks that need to be done or by project
managers that succumb to management pressures to get the project timeline to fit a predetermined estimate. More...
Lack of Change Control - Change control is the process of managing changes as to
ensure that decisions are not made hastily and that the decision to add an additional feature is in the best interest
of the project. If change control is missing from a project, new features will be introduced at random, jeopardizing
the delivery date and quality of the software being developed. More...
Lack of Risk Management - The key to managing risks is to build contingency plans
for risk and to build enough time into your project schedule to mitigate risks that you do not know about. More...
Poor Project Communication - Studies have shown that software teams that consistently
deliver on-time and on-budget communicate in an effective manner. These teams stay in contact constantly, but wisely
use each other's time during the communication process and are careful not to waste other people's time. More...
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Quality Web Systems
This book provides a framework for ensuring that key Web system success criteria are addressed during the development
of a Web system. Detailed technical guidance is provided for all criteria, along with testing strategies that allow
for verification of a quality implementation. More...
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Automated Software Testing
Written for those with some background in software engineering, Automated Software Testing: Introduction, Management,
and Performance delivers a rigorous guide to the state of the art in managing automated testing in a text that
will benefit anyone who tests software for a living. More...
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