Rapid Development

Project managers, technical leads, and programmers throughout the industry share an important concernhow to get their development schedules under control. RAPID DEVELOPMENT addresses that concern head-on with philosophy, techniques, and tools that help shrink and control development schedules and keep projects moving. The style is friendly and conversational. And the content is impressive. Starting with an introduction to the philosophy of Rapid Development, the author moves the reader through life cycle planning, scheduling, motivation, teamwork, feature-set control, and other important issues. There's a full discussion of best practices for rapid, efficient development, such as evolutionary prototyping, Joint Application Design (JAD), rapid development languages, staged delivery, and much more. And throughout, theory is clarified and reinforced with plentiful real-world case studies that show concepts put into practice. Readers of McConnell's CODE COMPLETE, along with other titles in the highly successful Coding series, provide a ready market for RAPID DEVELOPMENT.