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Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects
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Ship It! avoids current fashion trends and marketing hype; instead, readers find
page after page of solid advice, all tried and tested in the real world. This
book is a collection of tips that show what tools a successful team has to use,
and how to use them well. Developers will get quick, easy-to-follow advice on
modern techniques and when they should be applied.
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Aimed at beginning to intermediate programmers, this book 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 them
Few of the ideas presented here are controversial or extreme; most experienced
programmers will agree that this stuff works. Yet 50 to 70 percent of all project
teams in the U.S. aren't able to use even these simple,well-accepted practices
effectively. This book will help you get started.
Ship It! begins by introducing the common technical infrastructure that every
project needs. Readers can choose from a variety of recommended technologies
according to their skills and budgets to get the job done. The next sections
outline the necessary steps 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 common problems-and danger
signs-that arise and offers real-world advice on how to solve them.
About the Authors
Jared Richardson is a developer-turned-manager who thinks a
good day is having everything delegated so that he can sneak away and actually
write code. He specializes in using off-the-shelf technologies to solve tough
problems, especially those involving the software development process. With
more that 10 years of experience, Jared has been a consultant, developer, tester,
and manager, including Director of Development at several companies. He currently
manages a team of developers and testers at SAS Institute, and is responsible
for a company-wide effort to use test automation to improve the quality of SAS
products.
William A. Gwaltney is a software developer with over 20 year's
experience. In that time he hasn't quite seen it all, but he's seen most of
it (and a lot of it hasn't been pretty). He's worked at both large companies
and start-ups in the fields of electronics CAD, networking, telecommunications,
knowledge representation, and web-based planning and scheduling for the enterprise.
Will currently works on test automation at SAS Inc., the largest privately-owned
software company in the world.
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