Pierre N. Robillard, Montreal Polytechnique Philippe Kruchten, Rational Corporation with, Patrick d'Astous, Montreal Polytechnique Publisher: Addison Wesley Copyright: 2004

Table Of Contents

PART I: BASIC ASPECT OF SOFTWARE PROCESS

• Specifying a One Week Project
• Developing a One Week Project
• Learning from Basic Software Engineering Process
• Specifying the Case Study
• Exercices
• Readings
• Short Story

• Understanding the Development and Evolution of Software
• Defining the Software Life cycle and the Software Process
• Defining Elements of the Software Process 9
• Integrating the Software Life Cycle and the Software Process
• Customizing the Software Process
• Summary
• Exercises
• Readings
• Cyber Reading

• Why are models and tools necessary?
• Modeling Concepts
• Modeling Diagrams
• Finding the Right CASE Tools
• Summary
• Exercises
• Cyber Reading
• Readings
• Short Story

PART II: ENGINEERING ASPECTS OF SOFTWARE PROCESS

• Presenting the Scope of Requirements
• Defining the Requirements Artifacts
• Eliciting requirements
• Evolving Requirements
• Exercises
• Cyber Reading
• Readings
• Short Story

• Introducing the Crystallization Analogy
• Understanding the Analysis and Design Discipline
• Defining the Analysis and Design Activities
• Documenting the Analysis and Design Discipline
• Viewing the Model
• Exercises
• Cyber Reading
• Readings
• Short Story

• Understanding the Implementation Discipline
• Realizing the Implementation Discipline
• Elaborating the Implementation Discipline
• Presenting a Construction Phase Iteration
• Exercises
• Cyber Reading
• Readings

• Relating Testing to Quality
• Defining Test Discipline Activities
• Elaborating the Test Discipline
• Evaluating Testing Activities
• Exercises
• Cyber Reading
• Readings
• Short Story

PART III: MANAGEMENT ASPECTS OF SOFTWARE PROCESS

• Defining the Discipline
• Highlighting Operational Aspects of the Discipline
• Managing the Software Configuration and Change Discipline
• Implementing Software Configuration and Change Management
• Summary
• Exercices
• Cyber Reading
• Readings
• Short story : Chaos, Big Bang, and beyond

• Defining the Project Manager Role
• Planning Projects
• Managing Iterations
• Managing Risks
• Exercises
• Cyber Reading
• Readings
• Short Story : On Climbing Big Mountains

• Understanding Teams
• Structuring Team Environments
• Defining Team
• Building A Team
• Supporting Team Activities
• Exercises
• Cyber Reading
• Readings
• Short Story : Managing Teams

PART IV: QUALITY ASPECTS OF SOFTWARE PROCESS

• Defining Process and Reference Models
• Registration and Certification
• Assessing UPEDU
• Exercices
• Cyber Reading
• Readings
• Short story

• Measuring Process Activities
• Defining Measurement Paradigms
• Measuring Effort
• Measuring Cognitive Activities
• Exercises
• Cyber Reading
• Readings
• Short Story

• Metamodeling.
• Structuring the Metamodel.
• Overviewing Unified Software Process Metamodel.
• Exercises.
• Cyber Reading.
• Readings.
• Short Story.