User Experience Feedback Sessions - how to use the

information Standard Practice – common expectations for

windows, menus and controls

 Testing and QA Building an Effective QA Plan (when and how

much to test) Unit, Functional and Automated test

Planning, Estimating and Risk Management for Software Projects How to Estimate Software Project Scope:

time, cost and resources Planning for Simplicity – less is more, avoiding

the “swiss army knife” Why Software Project Estimation is Different

from Conventional Project Estimation (Agile explains why)

Risk Mitigation (testing early and often, scope and architecture changes)

Software Development Lifecycle Processes  Waterfall Processes Agile Processes

Unified Process XP Scrum

Selecting & Adapting Process to Project

 Marketing a Software Project Maintaining the Larger Vision Marketing to the Customer, Sponsor, End-User

and Technical Team Achieving and Maintaining Sponsorship (small

victories first, continuous delivery, big picture) Keeping Creativity Alive

 Software Product Evolution Early-stage Software Development Interacting Roles of the Product and Project

Manager Changing Team Roles in Product Evolution

Building and Managing The Project Team Building a Cross-functional Software Team Managing Dispersed Teams Achieving Technical/Business Consensus and

Breaking Logjams

Software Development Programs for the SIGDavid Braunsteindmbraunst@gmail.com 650-814-8822

8/26/2009 PM PM SIG – Lightning Rounds