Steve Tockey

Congratulations! You've just been designated the project manager of your first CORBA project! "Help!" you say? Even though you may not have any CORBA experience at all, you needn't panic. This article describes how you can grab this bull by the horns and guide your project to a successful completion. Not only can you survive your first CORBA project, but you can do everything in your power to make it a success. Luck isn't the missing ingredient — knowledge is. This article describes how I approached my first CORBA project — and my second. It also describes how I'd approach my next CORBA project, the next one, and so on. This article is based loosely on Steve McConnell's award-winning books Software Project Survival Guide and Rapid Development (see References 1 and 2). They provide some additional discussion of the approach described here. The Project Charter I sta... (more)