The Software Developer's Guide, 3rd Edition
Table of Contents

Note: While all chapters have been updated, chapters in the outline or subsections (in the detailed table of contents) identified in red are brand new. Chapters or subsections that are mostly rewritten in DG3 are also identified in red.

1 About Development
Chapter 1: Types of Developers New
Chapter 2: Types of Gigs New
Chapter 3: Types of Processes New
Chapter 4: Choosing a Process New
Chapter 5: Expectations Updated

2 Starting Out
Chapter 6: Are You Ready? New
Chapter 7: What You'll Need New
Chapter 8: Positioning
Chapter 9: Marketing

3 First Contact
Chapter 10: The Initial Contact Updated
Chapter 11: The Sales Call Updated
Chapter 12: War Stories

4 Structured Development Specs
Chapter 13: The Premise Behind Fixed Price Work Updated
Chapter 14: An agreement to do work
Chapter 15: The Waterfall Process of Developing Specs Updated
Chapter 16: The Specification
Chapter 17: How Long? How Much? Calculating Price
Chapter 18: The Cover Letter
Chapter 19: War Stories Updated

5 Structured Development Process
Chapter 20: The Waterfall Development Environment
Chapter 21: Tracking Time
Chapter 22: Manufacturing Instructions
Chapter 23: Code Reviews
Chapter 24: Bug Reporting (AFIs)
Chapter 25: Testing - who
Chapter 26: Testing - how
Chapter 27: Change Orders
Chapter 28: Delivery
Chapter 29: Making Money with Structured Development New
Chapter 30: War Stories

6 Rapid Application Development
Chapter 31: The premise behind RAD New
Chapter 32: An agreement to do work New
Chapter 33: Developing specs in a RAD/JAD environment New
Chapter 34: RAD specifications and prototypes New
Chapter 35: Calling iteration quits New
Chapter 36: The "D" in RAD New
Chapter 37: Making money at RAD/JAD New
Chapter 38: War Stories New

7 Extreme Programming
Chapter 39: Premise behind XP New
Chapter 40: An agreement to do work New
Chapter 41: XP Development New
Chapter 42: Making Money with XP New
Chapter 43: War Stories New

8 People
Chapter 44: An administrative assistant
Chapter 45: Finding: Options for the recruiting process
Chapter 46: Hiring: The interview process
Chapter 47: Keeping: Day-to-day operations
Chapter 48: Organizational and Individual Certification New
Chapter 49: Contractors and Part-Timers New
Chapter 50: Not Keeping: Firing employees

9 Customer Relations
Chapter 51: Tough Situations New
Chapter 52: Delighting the Client New

Appendices
Appendix A: Auditing an existing application

1 About Development

Chapter 1: Types of Developers

Chapter 2: Types of Gigs

Chapter 3: Types of Processes

Chapter 4: Choosing a Process

Chapter 5: Expectations

2 Starting Out

Chapter 6: Are You Ready?

Chapter 7: What You'll Need

Chapter 8: Positioning

Chapter 9: Marketing

3 First Contact

Chapter 10: The Initial Contact

Chapter 11: The Sales Call

Chapter 12: War Stories

4 Structured Development Specs

Chapter 13: The Premise Behind Fixed Price Work

Chapter 14: An agreement to do work

Chapter 15: The Waterfall Process of Developing Specs

Chapter 16: The Specification

Chapter 17: How Long? How Much? Calculating Price

Chapter 18: The Cover Letter

Chapter 19: War Stories

5 Structured Development Process

Chapter 20: The Waterfall Development Environment

Chapter 21: Tracking Time

Chapter 22: Manufacturing Instructions

Chapter 23: Code Reviews

Chapter 24: Bug Reporting (AFIs)

Chapter 25: Testing - who

Chapter 26: Testing - how

Chapter 27: Change Orders

Chapter 28: Delivery

Chapter 29: Making Money with Structured Development

Chapter 30: War Stories

6 Rapid Application Development

Chapter 31: The premise behind RAD

Chapter 32: An agreement to do work

Chapter 33: Developing specs in a RAD/JAD environment

Chapter 34: RAD specifications and prototypes

Chapter 35: Calling iteration quits

Chapter 36: The "D" in RAD

Chapter 37: Making money at RAD/JAD

Chapter 38: War Stories

7 Extreme Programming

Chapter 39: Premise behind XP

Chapter 40: An agreement to do work

Chapter 41: XP Development

Chapter 42: Making Money with XP

Chapter 43: War Stories

8 People

Chapter 44: An administrative assistant

Chapter 45: Finding: Options for the recruiting process

Chapter 46: Hiring: The interview process

Chapter 47: Keeping: Day-to-day operations

Chapter 48: Organizational and Individual Certification

Chapter 49: Contractors and Part-Timers

Chapter 50: Not Keeping: Firing employees

9 Customer Relations

Chapter 51: Tough Situations

Chapter 52: Delighting the Client

Appendices

Appendix A: Auditing an existing application