Evaluating Project Decisions: Case Studies in Software Engineering (Paperback)

Effective decisions are crucial to the success of any software project, but to make better decisions you need a better decision-making process. In Evaluating Project Decisions, leading project management experts introduce an innovative decision model that helps you tailor your decision-making process to systematically evaluate all of your decisions and avoid the bad choices that lead to project failure.

Using a real-world, case study approach, the authors show how to evaluate software project problems and situations more effectively, thoughtfully assess your alternatives, and improve the decisions you make. Drawing on their own extensive research and experience, the authors bridge software engineering theory and practice, offering guidance that is both well-grounded and actionable. They present dozens of detailed examples from both successful and unsuccessful projects, illustrating what to do and what not to do.

Evaluating Project Decisions will help you to analyze your options and ultimately make better decisions at every stage in your project, including:

• Requirements–Elicitation, description, verification, validation, negotiation, contracting, and management over the software life cycle
• Estimates–Conceptual solution design, decomposition, resource and overhead allocation, estimate construction, and change management
• Planning–Defining objectives, policies, and scope; planning tasks, milestones, schedules, budgets, staff and other resources; and managing projects against plans
• Product–Proper product definition, development process management, QA, configuration management, delivery, installation, training, and field service
• Process–Defining, selecting, understanding, teaching, and measuring processes; evaluating process performance; and process improvement or optimization

In addition, you will see how to evaluate decisions related to risk, people, stakeholder expectations, and global development. Simply put, you’ll use what you learn here on every project, in any industry, whatever your goals, and for projects of any duration, size, or type.

有效的決策對於任何軟體專案的成功至關重要，但要做出更好的決策，您需要一個更好的決策過程。在《評估專案決策》中，領先的專案管理專家介紹了一個創新的決策模型，幫助您根據系統性地評估所有決策，避免導致專案失敗的糟糕選擇。

通過真實案例研究的方式，作者展示了如何更有效地評估軟體專案的問題和情境，深思熟慮地評估您的選擇，並改進您的決策。作者借鑒了自己的廣泛研究和經驗，將軟體工程理論與實踐相結合，提供既有根據又可操作的指導。他們提供了許多來自成功和失敗專案的詳細案例，說明了應該做什麼和不應該做什麼。

《評估專案決策》將幫助您分析選項，並最終在專案的每個階段做出更好的決策，包括：

- 需求 - 引出、描述、驗證、確認、協商、合約和軟體生命週期管理
- 估算 - 概念解決方案設計、分解、資源和間接成本分配、估算建立和變更管理
- 計劃 - 定義目標、政策和範圍；計劃任務、里程碑、時間表、預算、人員和其他資源；以及根據計劃管理專案
- 產品 - 正確的產品定義、開發過程管理、品質保證、配置管理、交付、安裝、培訓和現場服務
- 流程 - 定義、選擇、理解、教授和衡量流程；評估流程績效；以及流程改進或優化

此外，您還將了解如何評估與風險、人員、利益相關者期望和全球開發相關的決策。簡而言之，您將在任何專案、任何行業、無論目標如何、專案持續時間、規模或類型如何的情況下，運用在這裡學到的知識。