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Points to Consider
- Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.
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Fixing a defect has a substantial (20% - 50%) chance of introducing another defect.
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Adding people to a late project makes it later.
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More projects fail for lack of time than all other causes combined.
- Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month
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Purpose
John Wyatt's Programming Website
This site is intended to be an overview of many of the concepts in
software engineering and software project management. The information here
is based on my personal experience mentoring entry-level and intermediate-level programmers, as well as mentoring project teams. This is not
intended to be a comprehensive course; there are numerous books that cover
these subjects in depth. However, I find that the Pareto Principle still
holds true: 20% of the work can generally solve 80% of the problems. This covers the 20% that I have successfully used to
handle the majority of problems that I have encountered in software
engineering. While some of the material is specific to medical device
software, most of the material is universal to all software projects.
- John Wyatt -
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I cover aspects of:
- Project planning.
- Writing software requirements.
- Software hazard analysis (safety critical software).
- Requirements analysis.
- Configuration Control.
- Software Design.
- Software Testing.
- Software Standards (IEEE, SEI, and FDA).
- Review of Basic Logic and how it applies to test design.
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The typical software lifecycle ?
- Order the T-shirts for the development team.
- Announce the shipping date.
- Write the code.
- Appoint a project manager (someone to blame).
- Put some notes together for a user’s manual.
- Write the software specifications.
- Ship the software.
- Test (the customers are a big help here).
- Announce the upgrade program.
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