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Managing O-O Projects

Did
	YOU
		ever
			manage
				a
					project?

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Critical Success Factors

use incremental scheduling and staging
find and fix failing ideas
develop a habit of delivering
Get: sponsor, project manager, technical leader

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Key Failure Indicators

absence of incremental development
use of C++ in commercial IS

see Surviving Object-Oriented Projects: A managers Guide

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OO - Success and Failure

OO = technology + mind-set
it might be new technology to your organisation
developers love it!
requires and enables communication between groups
adopting OO may succeed or fail!

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Possible benefits - responsiveness

responsiveness - variations on a theme
responsiveness to change!
time-to-market
communication - developers, users, executives
maintenance, reuse, productivity
GUI development
morale -- cutting-edge technology

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Drawbacks

Are YOU underestimating?
productivity takes time
hazards of C++ (and Java, ...)
reuse is difficult
establishing a software process
business-modeling or software design?
CASE helps?
You will pay for: training, experience, tools, consultants, ...

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The hazards of C++?

C++ won the language war over Eiffel, Objective-C, SOM, C@+, and Java?
Java -- relative simplicity and portability

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Managing (the complexity of) C++

misconception: C++ is like C
consider using another language
Why does C++ exist? - engineering and systems programming
create a subset of the language
design and coding standards
use people with knowledge!

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Risk-reduction Strategies

look carefully all around the project
detect the risks!
list the risks in order
work on the risks in order of danger

see Risk Avoidance Patterns

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