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Amplifying Your Effectiveness:
Collected Essays

edited by Gerald M. Weinberg, James Bach, and Naomi Karten

ISBN: 978-0-932633-47-7  
©2000  160 pages   softcover  
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Subject(s): Software Quality & Productivity

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Accessibility, 12-16

Amplifying Your Effectiveness (AYE) Conference, 1-3, 6

Anxiety Metric, 48, 50-52

Apple, 9, 133, 135

Audition interviewing, 59ff.

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Bach, James, 4, 6, 7, 9ff., 93, 123ff., 135

Bayer, Sam, 80

Benesh, Marie, 5, 71, 82ff., 136

Blame, 51, 65, 97

Blindness, 12-16

Block, Peter, 50

Braille, 4, 7, 13

Brenner, Rick, 3, 5, 71, 73ff., 136

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Cathode ray tube (CRT), 13, 14

Change, 3, 4, 7, 30, 33, 93, 95ff., 103-13, 134

customers and, 104-6, 111-12

management of, 106-8, 110-12, 117-20

organizational, 93, 103-13

personal, 7, 134

Satir Model of, 6, 93, 95-102, 106

Chaos stage, 98-99, 101

Circular causation, 104-6

Client-management application example, 51-52

Communication, 3, 18, 64, 97, 100, 107, 120

See also Satir Interaction Model; Teams

Conflict Metric, 48-49, 52

Congruence, 5-6, 57-62

Consultants, 4, 17, 31, 62, 74, 78, 80, 123-24

Context-switching, 23-24

Crosby, Philip, 9

Crunch projects, 4, 8, 25-42

customers and, 26-27, 32, 34, 36-38

examples of, 28-29

identifying, 26, 28

impact of, 28, 30-35

management and, 37-38

pseudo-crunch, 26-28

shaping of, 36-41

sponsor's role on, 26, 27, 33-34, 37-38, 40

stakeholders' role on, 34-37

subproject for, 39-40

teams and, 27, 31-32, 34-35, 37, 40

Culture, 3, 80, 86, 128-30

types of, 129

Customers, 27, 32, 34, 36, 37, 38, 56, 68-70, 89, 104-6, 111-12, 118-19, 123-24, 137

See also Crunch projects; Runaway projects

irate, 68-70

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D

Data mining, 115-16

Derby, Esther, 4, 6, 93, 103ff., 136

Diagram of effects, 105, 113

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E

Effectiveness, 1-7, 43, 53, 71, 83, 93, 133, 134

levels of, 3, 6

projects and, 71

Empowerment, 7ff.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP), 5, 82-87

communication and, 83, 87

decision-making and, 84-85, 87

infrastructure and, 85-86, 87

living with, 86-87

requirements and, 83

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F

Fjelsted, Kevin, 4, 5, 7, 12ff., 136

Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 29, 39, 116, 140

Foreign element, 97-98, 102

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G

Gause, Donald C., 41

Gray, Don, 3, 4, 6, 7, 17ff., 137

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H

Haiku, 3, 5, 71, 73-74

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I

Information technology (IT), 47, 51, 130, 141

Integration, 99, 101

Internet, 15-16, 28, 130

Interviewing, 5, 21-22, 57-62

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K

Karten, Naomi, 3, 4, 43, 54ff., 61, 68ff., 133ff., 137

King, Bob, 4, 5, 6, 43, 45ff., 138

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L

Late Status Quo, 96-97, 100

Lesser flamingo, 68-70

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M

Management, 4, 21-24, 26, 31-41, 47-52, 71, 75, 80, 87, 89, 97-98, 100-101, 103-4, 106-8, 110-11, 112, 117-20

of change, 106-8, 110-12, 117-20

of crunch project, 26-41

decision-making, 22, 82, 84-85

of development, 80, 117-19

interacting with, 47-52

of interviewing, 57-62

negotiation with, 26, 30, 37-38, 42, 51-52, 79

project, 4, 11, 21-24, 71, 75, 89, 104, 120

of quality, 103

of risk, 111

Satir Change Model and, 97-98, 100-101

sponsorship, 33-34

support from, 26, 33, 37-38, 87

of teams, 63ff.

of testing, 103, 130

Medvick, Patricia, 3, 6, 93, 114ff., 138

Methodology gap, 126

Monty Python example, 88

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National Federation of the Blind (NFB), 16

New Status Quo, 100, 101

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OPTACON, 13, 14

Overtime, 66, 106, 109-10

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P

Pancake analogy, 78-81

Parallel projects, 21-24

context-switching and, 23-24

Partnership Principle, 18, 19, 20

Passion Principle, 19-20

Pause Principle, 17-18

Pay Attention Principle, 18

Person Principle, 20

Pioreck, Brian, 4, 5, 71, 78ff., 139

Problem-solving, 3, 7, 17-20

Programming, 9

Project, 4, 5, 8, 23, 25-42, 47-52, 71, 73ff., 79-81, 87-91, 97

See also Crunch projects; Management; Overtime; Parallel projects; Requirements; Risk; Stakeholders

deliverable, 23, 37, 38, 40, 79-81

failure, 26, 35, 36, 74

goal, 80, 114-15

metrics, 47ff., 53, 80

pancake analogy to, 78-81

ranking, 24

repository, 83

runaway, 88-91

schedule, 4, 5, 36, 73, 74, 75-77, 85, 89

scope, 38, 39-40

slip, 5, 75-77

sponsor, 26, 27, 33-34

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Quality, 9-11, 78-81, 131

good enough, 10, 135

Quality assurance (QA), 9, 10, 66

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Relationships, 43ff., 54-56, 96

Requirements, 32, 38, 47, 65, 73, 74, 76, 89, 117, 118-21, 137

Resistance stage, 97-98

Response stage, 18

Risk, 4, 10-11, 19, 26, 31, 33, 34-36, 73, 76, 111-13, 119

analysis, 115

Roberts, Ken, 4, 5, 8, 25ff., 139

Roberts, Sharon, 4, 5, 8, 25ff., 139

Rothman, Johanna, 4, 5-6, 8, 21ff., 71, 75ff., 131, 140

Runaway projects, 4, 88-91

definition of, 88

managing, 90-91

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Satir, Virginia, 7, 95ff., 100, 102, 134

Satir Change Model, 6, 93, 95-102, 106

Satir Interaction Model, 18

Schedule, 4, 5, 36, 73, 74, 75-77

Screen reader, 14-16

Secret Service analogy, 63, 67

SHAPE forum, 41-42, 57

Smith, Steve, 6, 93, 95ff., 140

Software development, 3, 15, 16, 57, 64, 66, 77, 93, 104, 114-22, 125-26

architect, 4, 6, 22, 43, 45-53

best practices, 123ff.

pancake analogy for, 80

process, 116, 117

for scientific research, 3, 93, 114-22, 126

Software Quality Assurance (SQA), 9, 135

Stakeholders, 32, 34-37, 47, 49, 53, 84

Strider, Eileen, 4, 5, 71, 88ff., 141

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Teams, 3, 4, 6, 10, 11, 27, 31, 34-35, 37-39, 40, 43, 63-67, 80, 83, 85, 87, 115ff., 118, 121

communication and, 3, 83, 87, 97, 116-17

decision-making and, 84-85

destruction of, 63-67

enemies and, 27-28

ERP, 83, 87

IT, 85

relationships on, 54-56

Technical trap, 47ff.

Testing, 4, 7, 9-11, 74, 76-77, 85-86, 103, 104-9, 110, 119, 121, 125-28, 130

developers and, 126

documentation for, 127

enterprise-wide, 85-86

management of, 103, 117, 118, 130

methodology, 130ff.

mythologies, 125-28

quality and, 9-11

requirements and, 121

role of, 7, 9-11

staff, 104, 106-9, 110

unit testing as, 125-26

They Syndrome, 133

Transforming idea, 99

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V

Visibility Ratio, 47-49, 52

Visual Basic, 58, 83

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W

Weinberg, Gerald M., 4, 5, 23, 41, 43, 50, 57ff., 90, 102, 112, 141

Winant, Becky, 4, 6, 43, 63ff., 141-42

World Wide Web, uses of, 29, 46, 57, 83

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Yourdon, Ed, 41


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