Rolling Rocks Downhill by Clarke Ching

Condition: Used, 2 - Signed by author on ffep.

ISBN: 9781505446517 Format: Paperback Pages: 320 Year: 2014 Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Description: An impossible deadline. A runaway project. And then you get the 5:30 a.m. phone call... what could possibly be wrong? Rolling Rocks Downhill is a fast, fun and often funny read. It's a business novel, just like Eli Goldratt's classic The Goal, where you sit on the characters' shoulders, watching them fight to save their jobs and their baby - a large software-intensive project, called FPP, that has been running late since day 1, but now, suddenly, needs to launch on an impossibly early date, or else. You feel their pain, and their joy, as they battle problem after problem until, slowly, torturously, they rediscover the few - but fundamental - principles underlying successful commercial software development. Sometimes you're a step ahead. Sometimes a step behind. Sometimes it feels like you're sitting in the room with them ... Reviews and Recommendations Johanna Rothman, author of Jolt Productivity award-winning Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management: Maybe one of your teammates or someone in management has the bright idea that maybe transitioning to agile or lean will help. Maybe it does in some small way. But, it's not enough. You're on a death march, iteration by iteration. Or, with your board, you can see that you are making progress, but you're not working fast enough.Or, you're not delivering what your

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