Mentoring Object Technology Projects (Just Enough (Yourdon Press)) [Paperback]

Richard T. Dué (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 22, 2002 | Series: Just Enough (Yourdon Press)

Object technology is now mainstream, offering at least the promise of a true discipline of software engineering. Nevertheless, many projects still fail, often catastrophically. To manage object technology well requires specific skills and techniques that many project managers and developers do not possess. This book is the solution. Drawing on his extraordinary experience consulting on object technology project management in 28 countries, Richard T. Due has brought together practical project management approaches and proven implementation guidelines that work. Mentoring Object Technology Projects identifies critical success factors in object project management, while introducing tools and techniques that can be applied immediately in real projects. Due demonstrates how to create accurate, realistic project estimates; build credible project schedules; and monitor projects effectively. He also objectively evaluates today's leading methodologies, including the Unified and OPEN approaches. The book includes detailed templates you can use to start managing object-oriented projects more effectively, starting today. For every project manager, planners, senior business systems analyst, information modeler, and developer seeking more productive ways to manage object-oriented IT projects.

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From the Back Cover

• Proven leadership techniques for successful object-oriented development
• Best practices for planning, staffing, organization, and project supervision
• Life cycle approaches to maximizing object reuse and ROI
• Easy-to-implement solutions that work with any project, development environment, or methodology

Object technology can help IT organizations achieve unprecedented flexibility, speed to market, and ROI. However, managing object technology projects successfully requires new skills and techniques that many participants simply don't possess. In Mentoring Object Technology Projects, one of the world's leading object development consultants presents a complete life cycle framework for managing any object-based project. Drawing on his consulting experience in 28 countries, Richard T. Dué covers every facet of project management, including planning, estimating, staffing, organization, implementation, ongoing supervision, and more. Coverage includes:

• Why traditional IT project management approaches do not work in object-based environments
• The critical success factors in object project management
• Exclusive "rule-of-thumb" metrics for estimating and monitoring object technology projects
• Building realistic project schedules
• Objective evaluations of today's leading methodologies, including the Unified and OPEN approaches
• Includes templates and techniques you can apply immediately to manage object-oriented projects from start to finish

Whether you're an "in-the-trenches" project manager, an IT executive, planner, developer, or IT client, these are the object technology best practices you need to succeed-no matter what your project, language, tools, notation, or methodology.

About the Author

RICHARD T. DUÉ is the President of Thomsen Dué and Associates Limited, a training and consulting firm specializing in object technology. Richard develops and presents courses focused on object technology project management, object-oriented analysis and design, and object-oriented design patterns, and provides mentoring services to organizations migrating to object technology. He has more than 30 years of IT experience as a programmer, analyst, manager, consultant, teacher, and author, and is a frequent, highly rated speaker at conferences such as TOOLS and OOPSLA.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (January 22, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130347906
• ISBN-13: 978-0130347909
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,912,340 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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