CSSE3002 Suggested Readings

Useful references for Risk Management

(Good introductory article) Software risk management: principles and practices by Bohem B. W in IEEE Software (you can access the article via UQ library http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=62930&tag=1).

Social and Technical Reasons for Software Project Failures by Capers Jones

CMU/SEI risk management Report

CMU SEI resources for Risk Management

Some newer references:

Understanding the Roots of Process Performance Failure by Robert Charette, Laura Dwinnell and John McGarry

Liar, Fool or both? by Robert Charette

Failing Successfully by Bob Charette

Mortality Play: the cost of risk on software Projects Phillip G. Armour
Communications of the ACM, 50,(3):15-18, March 2007
(accessible via UQ databases on library webpage - find the ACM Digital library)

How Software Estimation Tools Work by Capers Jones

Positive and Negative Innovations in Software Engineering by Capers Jones

Strengths and Weaknesses of Software Metrics by Capers Jones

The ROI of Software Process Improvement: A New 36 Month Case Study by Capers Jones

Karl Wiegers Describes 10 Requirements Traps to Avoid

Ten Software Process Improvement Traps to Avoid by Karl Wiegers

Articles on requirements engineering:

So You Want to Be a Requirements Analyst? Software Development, vol. 11, no. 7 (July 2003). by Karl E. Wiegers

Habits of Effective Analysts, Software Development, vol. 8, no. 10 (October 2000). by Karl E. Wiegers

More articles on requirements engineering from Process Impact website

Specifying Functional Requirements with Use Cases.  On-line tutorial from CRaG Systems

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The Standish Group's Chaos Report

How CMM impacts quality, productivity, rework and the bottom line, Michael Diaz and Jeff King
Ten Things Your Mother Never Told You About the Capability Maturity Model, Margaret Kulpa
    (there is an enormous amount of stuff at Crosstalk on software process)

Requirements denial - examining the excuses, Andrew Gabb

The Joel test: 12 steps to better code, Joel Spolsky - particularly read the story with 5. Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
 (look around this site, there is a lot of interesting stuff to read)

Why don't they practice what we preach?, Watts Humphrey

Three Process Perspectives: Organizations, Teams and People, Watts Humphrey,
Annals of Software Engineering, 14, 39-72, 2002.

The many dimensions of the software process, Sebastian Tyrrell,
Crossroads, 6-4, Summer 2000.

Software Development Process: A necessary evil, M,E. Fayad,
Communications of the ACM, 40,(9):101-103, September 1997
(accessible via UQ databases on library webpage - find the ACM Digital library)

The power of process, Steve McConnell
(there are many good articles linked through this page)

Suggestions for additional relevant links are welcomed - e-mail David.

One Hundred Rules for NASA Project Managers Jerry Madden, Associate Director of the Flight Projects Directorate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, collected these 100 pieces of wisdom over a number of years from various unidentified sources.