Thursday, July 1, 2004

The Business of Software

OK Book. Heres some coding best practice highlights:
  • Focus Creativity
    1. Divide large projects into milestone cycles
    2. Use a vision statement and outline feature specifications
    3. Base feature selection and prioritization on user activities and data
    4. Evolve a modular and horizontal design architecture
    5. Control by individual commitments to small tasks and fixed project resources
  • Work In parallel but synchronize continuously
    1. Work in parallel teams but synch up and debug daily
    2. Always have a product you can ship
    3. Speak a common language
    4. Continuously test as you build
    5. Use metric data to determine milestone completion

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