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Foreword xiii Preface xv About the Authors xxi Chapter 1: Leveraging Key Development Principles 1 Where Do the Practices Come From? 1 Using Practice Descriptions 3 Adopting the Practices: Iterative Development, Levels of Ceremony, and Agility 4 Key Development Principles 9 Unified Process Lifecycle 12 OpenUP/Basic 15 Rational Unified Process (RUP) 17 eXtreme Programming (XP) 19 Scrum 21 Summary 23 Chapter 2: Demonstrate Value Iteratively 25 Practice 1 Manage Risk 29 Practice 2 Execute Your Project in Iterations 42 Practice 3 Embrace and Manage Change 60 Practice 4 Measure Progress Objectively 77 Chapter 3: Focus Continuously on Quality 91 Practice 5 Test Your Own Code 95 Practice 6 Leverage Test Automation Appropriately 115 Practice 7 Everyone Owns the Product! 132 Chapter 4: Balance Stakeholder Priorities 151 Practice 8 Understand the Domain 155 Practice 9 Describe Requirements from the User Perspective 170 Practice 10 Prioritize Requirements for Implementation 186 Practice 11 Leverage Legacy Systems 201 Chapter 5: Collaborate Across Teams 213 Practice 12 Build High-Performance Teams 217 Practice 13 Organize Around the Architecture 232 Practice 14 Manage Versions 245 Chapter 6: Elevate the Level of Abstraction 259 Practice 15 Leverage Patterns 263 Practice 16 Architect with Components and Services 275 Practice 17 Actively Promote Reuse 288 Practice 18 Model Key Perspectives 301 Chapter 7: Adapt the Process 313 Practice 19 Rightsize Your Process 316 Practice 20 Continuously Reevaluate What You Do 329 Chapter 8: Making Practical Use of the Best Practices 345 Which Practices Should I Adopt First? 345 Start with the Basics 347 Adopt Related Practices 353 How Can RUP and EPF Help Me? 357 Choosing the Right Pilot Project 358 Conclusions 360 Appendix A: The Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) 361 Why EPF? 361 What Is EPF? 362 Potential Users of EPF 363 Extensible Process Content 366 Software Process Engineering Metamodel 368 Extensible Process Engineering Tools 374 Participating in the Development of EPF 376 Appendix B: IBM Rational Method Composer (RMC) 379 Process for a Variety of Projects 380 Process for the Enterprise 384 How the Practitioner Uses RMC 385 How a Project Manager Uses RMC 385 How Process Managers Use RMC 387 Guiding Principles for Evolving IBM Rational Method Composer 390 Glossary 391 Bibliography 395 Index 407 ...
