Chapter 4. Enacting the Quality Software Process

All projects are behind schedule—it's just a question of when you discover that fact and how the project team will respond to the discovery. So you might as well plan for it: Create an extreme artificial crisis in the early days of the project and observe what happens.

—Ed Yourdon [1998]

Putting This Chapter in Perspective

In this chapter we discuss the enactment of an example process whose architecture was discussed in Chapter 3. We explore the practical issues of configuring an Iterative, Incremental, and Parallel project plan based on the process-components discussed in the previous chapter. We also discuss the practical issues of tracking the progress of a project and modifying the project ...

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