Software Development Edge, The: Essays on Managing Successful Projects

Index

A

abstraction, 66

acceleration, 127

of a vertical ball toss, 129-130

accidental degeneracy, 231

accuracy, 109

achieving flow, 181

acquisitions, 277-278

adding

employees, 250

useful hours to product, consequences of naïve model, 256

algorithms, quadratic algorithms, 172

altitude variable, 94

American-born engineering students, 15

analogies, 202

Newton’s Laws of Motion, 203-205

oil changes, 217

physics, 201-203

quantum mechanics, 207-211

relativity, 205-207

thermodynamics, 211-212

anarchy, 47

“The Animal Game,” 72-74

So What? test, 74-75

anticipating obstacles, managing teams, 35-36

applications, mission-critical applications, 4

applied learning

iterative development, 53-54

short vectors, 51

Archer, James E., 82

Arrow, Kenneth, 212

assumptions, ...