 Some talks presented by Bob Podd "Software Based on Evolutionary Delivery Plans"
Getting Software Out on Time ... for a Change BACKGROUND NEEDED: Designed for Managers and Programmers who chronically experience late delivery of the software they produce and are interested in tuning their software development process for on time delivery.GOAL: An attendee should be able to assess whether an Evolutionary Delivery Plan would improve their group's / company's actual delivery performance.ABSTRACT: Parts of this talk were included in a highly popular cover article in "Embedded System Programming" magazine. (Copy available upon request!)A fundamental customers' requirement is that "The job must ship on time!" This presentation shows Software Managers and Engineers how a process named: Evolutionary Delivery Plans, Fixed Time Projects, and Time Boxes can make those timely shipments happen.These systematic approaches determine which key "FUNCTIONS" (and the "ATTRIBUTES" that make them up) should be built for the next revision and which should be held off for future revisions of the product. The bottom line goal is to define and build the 20% of the software that does 80% of the work.An IMPORTANT CONCEPT is that as soon as a portion of the system is
built, it is integrated and tested with the system completed to date. This continuing
improvement approach proves the system's worthiness and robustness. A goal is to detect
compatibility problems early in the process rather than the day before promised ship date.
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