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Visual FoxPro DevCon 97

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    Who is this guy? Director of Development, Blackstone, Inc. Author, Hacker’s Guide to Visual FoxPro 3 Contributing Editor, FoxPro Advisor Microsoft Certified Solution Developer Microsoft Support MVP ‘94, ‘95, ‘96, ‘97

    Slide 3:“After more than 30 years of programming, we ought to know that the design of complex software is inherently difficult.” - Niklaus Wirth

    Slide 4:Agenda

    Tools to Use SourceSafe Demo ATS Demo The Software Crisis Creating & Managing Process Wrap-Up

    Slide 5:Tools

    Tools are NOT the answer! There are no silver bullets. However, tools can help to achieve greater results, at a cost.

    Slide 6:Tools

    Requirements Management Requisite Analysis and Design xCase for data Visual Modeler/Rose for OOD FoxPro for UI Prototyping

    Slide 7:Project Management Tools

    MS Project Team Manager (Office 97, MSDN) Exchange/Outlook Excel

    Slide 8:Tools

    Source Code Control Visual SourceSafe DEMO Anomaly Tracking Systems Bug Lists and To-Do Lists DEMO of MS ATS

    Slide 9:The Software Crisis

    Recent news items make it sound like it just happened: Denver Airport $1M a day delay IRS: $4 Billion write-off???!!!??? Where’s the crisis? 40% of large projects never finished

    Slide 10:Learning about Process

    Understand your process Read about others: Humphrey, SEI, Yourdon Press, Capers Jones, Microsoft Press Talk with others: User Group, ICCP, ACM

    Slide 11:Capability Maturity Model

    SEI & Watts Humphrey 1: Initial, a.k.a. “Chaos” 2: Repeatable 3: Defined 4: Managed 5: Optimizing

    Slide 12:Improve the Process

    Procedures: Document It Metrics: Measure It Corrections Plan: Fix It Review: Optimize It

    Slide 13:Thinking About Process

    Every day is an opportunity for review Completion a time for serious analysis Complexity vs. Estimated Time vs. Actual Unforeseen problems

    Slide 14:Code Review

    The CompuServe® Effect explaining issue clarifies problem Walkthroughs: requirements vs. functions Code review: educational purposes Code inspection: code vs. checklist

    Slide 15:Summary

    What’s your process? How are you communicating your process? How are you measuring your progress? Where are your problems? How are you addressing them?

    Thank You! Questions? Send e-mail here http://www.bstone.com (617) 641-0400
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