How to Juggle 30 Balls Blindfolded

Visual Basic - How to Juggle 30 Balls Blindfolded

How to Juggle 30 Balls Blindfolded A Visual Basic Quality Crisis? Risk Management Technical Infrastructure Business Environment Change Management Critical Factors in Successful Enterprise Development Insist on Great Project Management Know Why You're Taking the Risk Understand Where You Came From Understand Where You Are Build Commitment and Understand Users Understand the Technology Create a Sensible Management Structure Get a Process Choose a Method Case Study The Process and the Players Getting Started Skill Requirements Infrastructure Requirements The Early Stages Vertical Partitioning Means 80 Percent Complete Is 80 Percent Delivered Cut the Politics and Get Serious Dare to Choose Staff Who Have the Right Stuff See the Big Picture, Plan for Change Ways of Ensuring Quality Demand More Rigor, Not Less Teach the Fundamentals Commit to Staff Why Are You Prototyping? Creating a Foundation with a Pathfinder Project Proving the Technical Architecture Proof of Concept Focusing on Design What Is Design? What Is Not Design? Developing Design Patterns Benchmark-Driven Design Understanding Objects Investing in Reuse Finding the Right Tools Configuration Management: Just Do It! Documentation Functional/Requirements Specification Design Specification Excellently Commented Code Test Plan Testing Destruction Testing Window Design Testing Navigational Testing Functional Testing Build Planning Year 2000 Concluding Thoughts

Visual Basic has become much more complex with each new version. Unless projects particularly large enterprise ones are properly managed, embarrassing statistics such as those mentioned above will only worsen. This tutorial outlines some of the fundamental issues involved in developing large-scale distributed systems using Visual Basic 6. It is aimed at all Visual Basic 6 developers, but project managers who need to understand how the technical environment affects their planning and management should find it particularly useful. System designers and quality assurance (QA) staff who need to understand how important their roles are in delivering a successful project will also find this tutorial helpful.

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