Symbian for Software Leaders: Principles of Successful Smartphone Development Projects

Part 2. Thriving on scale

1. Managing large projects

   • Smartphone projects vs. feature phone projects

   • Three approaches to large projects

   • How large projects differ from small projects

   • Project groupware

   • Confidentiality issues

   • Five central project documents

   • Auditing document readership

   • Processes and agility: education vs. processes

   • Problems when groupware is short-cut

   • Symbian's use of groupware

2. 6 Managing defects

   • Introduction to smartphone defect management

   • Living with defects

   • Aside: an embarrassing moment with defects

   • Defect priorities

   • The process of verifying a defect fix

   • Advanced defect investigation

   • Defect status values

   • Defect database requirements

   • The role of the project leader in managing defects

3. 7 Managing configurations

   • Introduction to configuration management

   • Aside: learning about configuration management

   • Consequences of weak configuration management

   • Basic principles of configuration management

   • Codeline strategy – single projects

   • Codeline strategy – multiple projects

   • Beyond codeline strategy

4. 8 Managing integration

   • Integration vs. creation

   • Mainlines and development codelines

   • Iterative development

   • Gate-keeping and integration tests

   • Dealing with build or test failures

   • The weekly integration cycle

   • Integration discipline

5. 9 Managing interfaces

   • Knowing when components belong together

   • Limits of rebuilding source code

   • Forms of compatibility

   • The compatibility virtuous cycle

   • System compatibility board

   • Responsibilities with regard to compatibility

   • Interface access and interface status

   • Versioning

   • Future-proofing interfaces

6. 10 Managing testing ...