Rapid Development - Taming Wild Software Schedules - Part 4 (the last part)<br>Total : 4 parts.<br><br>Steve McConnell\'s books have always displayed a remarkable degree of practicality and readability. This book is no different.<br><br>The author says at the outset the Purpose of the book is to answer issues about trade-offs. The author says that software can be optimized for any of several goals: lowest defect rate, lowest cost, or shortest development, etc... Software Engineering is then about achieving tradeoffs, and this is what this book is primarily about.<br>Because the book is so big, it has been broken into sections that can be read selectively and quickly. A short book would have oversimplified things to the point of uselessness.<br><br>Organization of the book:<br>Parts 1, 2 deal with the Strategy and Philosophy of rapid development, while part 3 covers Rapid develoment best practices
