The Deliverable

The Deliverable
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Welcome to 'The Deliverable' blog. This is an end-to-end sequential compilation of one hundred nuggets meant for a wide spectrum of readers touched by Information Technology (IT) including students and IT professionals.

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Chapter
Topics

1.    IT Boom - It Happened Once!
2.    Decades of Transformation
3.    Band-Aids and Paradigm Shifts
4.    Software - A Pervasive Phenomenon
5.    You Consume What You Create
6.    You Can Mine!

7.    The Neighborhood Restaurant
8.    Can They Be Different?
9.    Requirements Are Owned by Our Customer!
10.  A Physician Who Can Hear You Well
11.  Specifications:  In Which Format?
12.  The Specification Myth
13.  Ten Key Things
14.  The Weak Links
15.  Context-Free Questions
16.  Neighborhood Restaurant Revisited

17.  Urban Scholar
18.  How Do We Size It?
19.  FP, UCP, SP, Etcetera
20.  What will it take?
21.  Who Is Involved?
22.  Leave the artist alone!
23.  Pushing for a deadline?
24.  Rational Thinking
25.  A Practical Approach
26.  Estimation and Execution
27.  Commitment on Estimates
28.  Return of the Urban Scholar

29.  An Aspiring Architect
30.  Which Architecture?
31.  Decisions Matter
32.  Who Have You Worked With
33.  What Do Architects Deliver?
34.  Set on Stone?
35.  Different Schools of Thought
36.  4+1 View
37.  SOLID Design
38.  Developer’s Wish
39.  No Room?
40.  Architecture and Design – A Done Deal?

41.  Getting Organized
42.  Practice to Perform
43.  Initiate DP
44.  Spaghetti, Frustrations and Us!
45.  Attitude Drives Quality
46.  Integrate Early and Frequently
47.  Who Injects Quality?
48.  Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship
49.  Reusability and Half-life
50.  Learning from IBM San Francisco

  
51.  Readiness to Deliver
52.  Thinking beyond Stakeholders  
53.  Creating an impressive and compulsive vision
54.  Methodologies: What is Right?
55.  Bugzilla Story
56.  Dead Snakes
57.  Why do Projects Fail?
58.  Agile Revolution
59.  Does Agility Ensure Faster Delivery?
60.  DWYS and SWYD
61.  Got a Checklist?
62.  Why Root Cause?
63.  Lessons Learned

64.  What Do Customers Really Want?
65.  Getting it Right
66.  The Deliverable
67.  A Baker Who Does Not Taste the Cake
68.  Customer Value & Value Creation
69.  Why do value-add initiatives fail?

70.  On Alignment
71.  Knowledge Management
72.  The Most Important Thing
73.  Seven Essentials
74.  Daily Routine of Manoj
75.  The Silver Bullet
76.  The Job Letter

77.  Visiting Cards
78.  Fresher’s Aspiration
79.  Transformational Progression
80.  Five Years’ .Net Development Experience
81.  Landing in a Troubled Project
82.  Bug Bash – Making a Winner
83.  Understanding the Edges
84.  Communication Woes
85.  Three Things You Can’t Do Without
86.  Dark Processes, Dark Documents, Dark Patterns
87.  Heard about GDD?
88.  What Do Testers Deliver?
89.  Leading to Deliver
90.  The Delivery Trap
91.  Delivering the Impact

92.  What is the Proposition?
93.  Know Your Customer Expectations
94.  Involve Internal Stakeholders
95.  The Server Crashed
96.  From Peaks to Troughs
97.  SPIKES and BREAKS
98.  Don’t Assume
99.  The Inevitable
100. The Runway



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