Case Studies
Reference Tables
Preface

1. EFFICIENT DEVELOPMENT
Welcome to Rapid Development
Rapid-Development Strategy
Classic Mistakes
Software-Development Fundamentals
Risk Management

2. RAPID DEVELOPMENT
Core Issues in Rapid Development

3. BEST PRACTICES
Change Board
Daily Build and Smoke Test
Designing for Change
Evolutionary Delivery
Evolutionary Prototyping
Goal Setting
Inspections
Joint Application Development (JAD)
Lifecycle Model Selection
Measurement
Miniature Milestones
Outsourcing
Principled Negotiation
Productivity Environments
Rapid-Development Languages (RDLs)
Requirements Scrubbing
Reuse
Signing Up
Spiral Lifecycle Model
Staged Delivery
Theory-W Management
Throwaway Prototyping
Timebox Development
Tools Group
Top-10 Risks List

CASE STUDIES
Rapid Development Without a Clear Strategy
Rapid Development with a Clear Strategy
Classic Mistakes
Lack of Fundamentals
Lack of Contractor Risk Management
Systematic Risk Management
Wandering in the Fuzzy Front End
Ineffective Lifecycle Model Selection
Effective Lifecycle Model Selection
Seat-of-the-Pants Project Estimation
Careful Project Estimation
A Successful Schedule Negotiation
The Requirements Club
The Requirements Club Revisited
A Disheartening Lunch with the Boss
A Highly Motivational Environment
You Call This a Team?
A High-Performance Team
Typical Team-Member Selection
A Second High-Performance Team
Mismatch Between Project Objectives and Team Structure
Good Match Between Project Objectives and Team Structure
Managing Change Effectively
Ineffective Tool Use
Effective Tool Use
An Unsuccessful Project Recovery
A Successful Project Recovery

REFERENCE TABLES
Characteristics of Standard Approaches to Schedule-O