Mentoring Object Technology Projects (Paperback)

• Proven leadership techniques for successful object-oriented development
• Best practices for planning, staffing, organization, and project supervision
• Life cycle approaches to maximizing object reuse and ROI
• Easy-to-implement solutions that work with any project, development environment, or methodology

Object technology can help IT organizations achieve unprecedented flexibility, speed to market, and ROI. However, managing object technology projects successfully requires new skills and techniques that many participants simply don't possess. In Mentoring Object Technology Projects, one of the world's leading object development consultants presents a complete life cycle framework for managing any object-based project. Drawing on his consulting experience in 28 countries, Richard T. Dué covers every facet of project management, including planning, estimating, staffing, organization, implementation, ongoing supervision, and more. Coverage includes:

• Why traditional IT project management approaches do not work in object-based environments
• The critical success factors in object project management
• Exclusive "rule-of-thumb" metrics for estimating and monitoring object technology projects
• Building realistic project schedules
• Objective evaluations of today's leading methodologies, including the Unified and OPEN approaches
• Includes templates and techniques you can apply immediately to manage object-oriented projects from start to finish

Whether you're an "in-the-trenches" project manager, an IT executive, planner, developer, or IT client, these are the object technology best practices you need to succeed-no matter what your project, language, tools, notation, or methodology.

Table of Contents

Introduction.
1. Object Engineering: A New Approach to Information Technology.
2. The Information Technology Productivity Challenge.
3. Planning for Object Technology Productivity.
4. Managing Object Technology Projects.
5. Organizing and Directing Object Technology Projects.
6. Business Processing Reengineering.
7. Object Engineering Methodology.
8. Object Engineering Techniques.
9. Object Engineering Tools.
10. An Object Engineering Example.
11. Getting Started: Implementation Guidelines.
12. Future Developments.
Index.