Software Endgames presents realistic strategies for delivering working software to your customers. Focusing solely on the endgame, the book provides hard-won, hands-on practices you can implement right away.
In the endgame, effective management of defect repairs is crucial. Experienced project manager and consultant Robert Galen shows how to conduct effective defect triage -- analyzing, categorizing, and determining the priority of defects for repair.
Readers learn how to transform the endgame from a time of rampant defects and utter chaos into a time of focused repairs, effective teamwork, and change management. You’ll set release criteria, establish endgame release plans, and utilize a variety of change reduction and endgame management techniques.
Topics include
* release criteria and how to leverage them to guide your teams’ efforts * strategies for reducing the rate of change * change control and triage techniques that lead to efficient and effective defect repair decisions * alternative methods for defect repair and decision-making flexibility * setting up a defect-tracking system, managing defects and gathering standard metrics for endgame defect trending * techniques for repair planning and efficiency * agile extensions -- how to apply these techniques to agile projects * how to mine your endgames for improvements on future projects
features 4 appendices and 40+ figures and tables