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Tables of Contents for The Unified Process Transition and Production Phases
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
 
About This Series
xiii
 
About The Editors
xiv
 
Introduction
1
14
Introduction
1
14
The Unified Process
2
3
The Enterprise Unified Process (EUP)
5
4
The Goals of the Transition Phase
9
1
The Goals of the Production Phase
9
1
How Work Generally Proceeds During the Transition and Production Phases
10
1
The Requirements Workflow
10
1
The Analysis and Design Workflow
10
1
The Implementation Workflow
11
1
The Deployment Workflow
11
1
The Test Workflow
11
1
The Operations and Support Workflow
11
1
The Configuration and Change Management Workflow
12
1
The Project Management Workflow
12
1
The Infrastructure Management Workflow
13
1
The Organization of This Book
13
2
Deployment
15
36
Best Practices for the Deployment Workflow
15
3
Preparing to Deploy
16
2
Deploying Your System
18
1
The Articles
18
33
``Effective Software Deployment''
19
4
Scott W. Ambler
``Planning for Deployment''
23
3
Scott W. Ambler
``Planning the Right Rollout''
26
4
Jeff Weinberg
``Creating Good Installations''
30
4
Andy Barnhart
``Manageable Migrations''
34
4
Brian Black
``UML Deployment Modeling and Beyond''
38
4
Scott W. Ambler
``Place Tab A in Slot B''
42
4
Scott W. Ambler
``Waste Management''
46
5
John Boddie
Larry Constantine
Test
51
56
Best Practices for the Test Workflow
51
6
Putting Testers First
53
2
Effective Testing Practices
55
1
It Isn't Over Until It's Over
56
1
The Articles
57
50
``Recruiting Software Testers''
57
5
Cem Kaner
``Training Testers''
62
6
James Bach
``Running a Stellar Software Testing Team''
68
8
Len DiMaggio
``Selecting Test Cases Based on User Priorities''
76
8
John D. McGregor
Melissa L. Major
``A J2EE Testing Primer''
84
4
Scott W. Ambler
``Real-World Acceptance Testing''
88
5
Randy Sparks
Timothy Seevers
``Don't Waste Your Bugs!''
93
4
Stephen Shimeall
Timothy Shimeall
``Surviving Performance Fire Drills''
97
10
Benson I. Margulies
Project Management
107
36
Best Practices for the Project Management Workflow
107
4
Learning From Your Experiences
108
1
Recovering From Disaster
109
2
The Articles
111
32
``Making Lemonade From Lemons''
111
4
Norm Kerth
Larry Constantine
``Looking Back''
115
6
Karl Wiegers
Johanna Rothman
``Lost in Chaos: Chronology of a Failure''
121
8
Stephen Adolph
``Saving a Project in Trouble''
129
6
Steve Furlong
``Revamp Your Current Job''
135
3
Peter Alexander
``Painless Dismissals: Saying Goodbye''
138
5
Jess Wells
Operations and Support
143
28
Best Practices for the Operations and Support Workflow
143
3
Operations
143
1
Support
144
2
The Articles
146
25
``The Secret Life of System Operations''
146
3
Scott W. Ambler
``Ignore Help Requests at Your Own Peril''
149
4
Scott W. Ambler
``How Helpful is Your Help?''
153
8
Fabian-Isaacs
P.J. Raymond
``Getting Real Help from a Help Desk''
161
4
Jessica Keyes
``Developer Angst: Product Support''
165
6
Jacques Surveyer
Infrastructure Management
171
54
Best Practices for the Infrastructure Management Workflow
171
6
System Security
173
1
Reuse Through Open Source Software (OSS)
173
2
Software Process Improvement (SPI)
175
2
The Articles
177
48
``Who's That In My App?''
178
3
Mike Rothman
``Intrusion Detection: Focus on E-Development & Security''
181
5
Alexandra Weber Morales
``Reuse Through Internal Open Source''
186
3
Scott W. Ambler
``Arts and Crafts Software''
189
2
Warren Keuffel
``The Ethics of Free Software''
191
8
Bertrand Meyer
``Software Process Improvement: 10 Traps to Avoid''
199
7
Karl Weigers
``Process Improvement That Works''
206
8
Karl Wiegers
``Beyond Optimizing''
214
3
James A. Highsmith III
Larry Constantine
``Just Doint It''
217
3
Warren Keuffel
``Unified Hegemony''
220
5
Larry Constantine
Beyond the Unified Process - Agile Software Processes
225
58
Towards Agility
226
3
Agile Software Processes
229
3
The Articles
232
51
``Methodological Agility''
232
4
Larry Constantine
``The Agile Manifesto''
236
7
Martin Fowler
Jim Highsmith
``Put Your Process on a Diet''
243
7
Martin Fowler
``Is Design Dead?''
250
6
Martin Fowler
``Extreme Lessons Learned''
256
4
Scott W. Ambler
``Extreme Programming''
260
3
Warren Keuffel
``Lean Programming; Part 1''
263
6
Mary Poppendieck
``Lean Programming; Part 2''
269
5
Mary Poppendieck
``Extreme Modeling''
274
5
Scott W. Ambler
``A Closer Look at Extreme Modeling''
279
4
Scott W. Ambler
Parting Words
283
2
Scott's Really Bad Zen Poetry
284
1
Appendix A: Bibliography
285
4
Appendix B: Contributing Authors
289
4
Appendix C: References & Recommended Reading
293
8
Printed Resources
293
6
Web-Based Resources
299
2
Index
301