Organizing Development

[David Demland]

What you talk about here is a very wide subject. Are you looking for ways to
improve the way you produce software or are you looking for a way to manage
the work you are doing?

If you are looking for a way to manage the way you produce software there
are many tools out there that can help. A "Microsoft Project" type tool can
be used to help organize the way all your tasks get completed. This type of
tool can be used on a personal level as well as a project level for a
manager. Do not over look using these type of tools on a personal level.

If your goal is to improve the software you produce then go get a book like
"Introduction to the Personal Software Process" by Watts Humphrey. This book
shows how you can implement a CMM structure on your personal level. There
are other books out to help this way as well. There is "Code Complete" and
"Writing Solid Code" to name a few.

The last way to handle this is to talk to others who have "been there, done
that". This is where groups like SPIN come in. There is a local chapter here
in Phoenix where you can meet others who can help you.

If you want to organize a project, first decide what you want to improve
first then set out to improve that area first. It is good not to try to
change everything at once.

David Demland
Qa / Testing Manager
CADTEL Systems, Inc.
11201 N. Tatum Ste. 200
Phoenix, AZ 85028
(602) 953-4888
FAX: (602) 953-4833
ddemland@cadtel.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Furmanek, Greg <Greg.Furmanek@hit.cendant.com>
To: 'plug-devel@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us'
<plug-devel@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Friday, February 04, 2000 12:08 PM
Subject: Organizing Development


>Has anybody ever seen some way to organize
>project???
>
>I would like to have tool or method that
>approaches the problem from developers point
>of view.  I do not want to deal with
>some Project Management stuff from the
>managers side.
>
>Right now I plan things in my head
>but I can't imagine developing project
>that has 10000 lines of code or more
>without some sort of organization.
>
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