Waltzing with Bears

Managing Risk on Software Projects

Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

196 Seiten

2003
Dorset House Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-932633-60-6 (ISBN)

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»If There's No Risk On Your Next Project, Don't Do It«

Winner of the Software Development Jolt Product Excellence Award

Greater risk brings greater reward, especially in software development. A company that runs away from risk will soon find itself lagging behind its more adventurous competition. By ignoring the threat of negative outcomes—in the name of positive thinking or a can-do attitude—software managers drive their organizations into the ground.

In Waltzing With Bears, Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister—the best-selling authors of Peopleware—show readers how to identify and embrace worthwhile risks. Developers are then set free to push the limits.

The authors present the benefits of risk management, including that it • makes aggressive risk-taking possible • protects management from getting blindsided • provides minimum-cost downside protection • reveals invisible transfers of responsibility • isolates the failure of a subproject.

Readers are armed with strategies for confronting the most common risks that software projects face: • schedule flaws • requirements inflation • turnover • specification breakdown • and under-performance.

Waltzing With Bears will help you mitigate the risks—before they turn into project-killing problems. Risks are out there—and they should be there—but there is a way to manage them.

Tom DeMarco und Timothy Lister sind Partner der Atlantic Systems Guild, einer Beratergruppe, die sich auf die komplexen Prozesse der Systementwicklung spezialisiert hat, mit besonderem Augenmerk auf die menschliche Dimension. Seit den 70er-Jahren haben sie zusammen zu Themen wie Management, Aufwandsschätzungen, Produktivität und Organisationkultur unterrichtet, Bücher verfasst und international beraten.

Prologue: The Ethics of Belief

PART I: WHY 7

1. Running Toward Risk
2. Risk Management Is Project Management for Adults
3. Denver International Airport Reconsidered
4. The Case for Risk Management

PART II: WHY NOT

5. The Case Against Risk Management
6. The Onus of Uncertainty
7. Luck

PART III: HOW

8. Quantifying Uncertainty
9. Mechanics of Risk Management
10. Risk Management Prescription
11. Back to Basics
12. Tools and Procedures
13. Core Risks of Software Projects
14. A Defined Process for Risk Discovery
15. Risk Management Dynamics
16. Incrementalism for Risk Mitigation
17. The Ultimate Risk Mitigation Strategy

138 PART IV: HOW MUCH

18. Value Quantification
19. Value Is Uncertain, Too
20. Sensitivity Analysis
21. Value Offsets Risk
22. Refining the Risk Management Prescription

PART V: WHETHER OR NOT

23. Test for Risk Management

Appendix A: The Ethics of Belief, Part 1

Appendix B: Risk Template

References

Index

"Running away from risk is a no-win proposition. Sometimes you come across a project that looks positively risk-free. In the past, you may have looked at such an endeavor as a 'slam dunk' and thanked your lucky stars to be given an easy project for a change. We've had the same reaction. What dummies we were. Those projects weren't worth doing at all." —from Chapter 1

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.2003
Zusatzinfo	illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	146 x 222 mm
Gewicht	295 g
Einbandart	Paperback
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Office Programme ► Outlook
	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► Software Projektmanagement
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Projektmanagement
ISBN-10	0-932633-60-9 / 0932633609
ISBN-13	978-0-932633-60-6 / 9780932633606
Zustand	Neuware