PHP Team Development Table Of Contents

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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Software is Complex
Chapter 2: MVC and Software Teams
Chapter 3: Dealing with Complexity
Chapter 4: The Process Matters
Chapter 5: Agile Works Best
Chapter 6: Ways of Collaboration
Chapter 7: Continuous Improvement
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Software is Complex
  • Need for teams
  • Software engineering principles to help
    • Use a process
    • Divide and conquer
      • Guarantee reuse
      • Guarantee integration
      • Prevent regression
    • Vertical versus horizontal division
    • Continuous integration
    • Patterns as solutions
    • Process for success
  • Tools
    • Source code control
    • Continuous builds
    • Issue tracking
    • Communication
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: MVC and Software Teams
  • Software design patterns
  • MVC pattern
    • Intent
    • Motivation
    • Solution
      • Model
      • View
      • Controller
    • How MVC can help
      • MVC helps with change
  • Implementing MVC with a team
    • Aspects of the presentation layer (view)
    • The overall team distribution
  • Integration challenges
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: Dealing with Complexity
  • Frameworks to simplify complexity
    • How can frameworks help?
    • Expectations from frameworks
      • Simplicity
      • Size of the framework
      • Performance
      • Security
      • Separate HTML from PHP
      • AJAX support
      • No restrictions
      • Object-oriented versus functional
      • Code quality of the project
      • Enforce best practices
      • Configuration needs
      • Internationalization
      • Documentation
      • Community
      • Commercial support
      • License
      • Vendor locking
      • Availability with hosting
      • Some more points to ponder
    • Team success with frameworks
    • Technical feasibility study of the framework
    • PHP Frameworks
      • Limb
      • phpDrone
      • ZNF
      • ATK
      • Akelos
      • CakePHP
      • CodeIgniter
      • Zend Framework
      • PHP Work
      • Symfony
  • KISS—beyond frameworks
    • Beyond frameworks
    • People are complex
      • Avoid NIH
    • Innovation
    • Embrace change
    • Simplicity is a mindset
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: The Process Matters
  • Process and product
  • Ignoring the process
  • Process must be respected
  • From no process to some process
  • Process helps not hinder
  • Simple process for PHP projects
    • User requirements
    • Modeling what the users want
      • Data modeling
      • Business modeling
    • User activity analysis
    • Designs and implementing the data layer
    • Designs and implementing the business layer
    • Design and implementation of the user interface
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: Agile Works Best
  • Introducing agile philosophy
    • Agile values
    • Agile principles
    • Individuals and interactions
    • Working software over comprehensive documentation
    • Customer collaboration
    • Responding to change
    • Customizing agile to our needs
  • Common fears for developers
    • Producing the wrong product
    • Product of inferior quality
    • Getting late to complete the project
    • Too much work in too little time
  • Traits of agile team members
    • Competence
    • Common focus
    • Collaboration
    • Decision-making ability
    • Fuzzy-problem solving ability
    • Mutual trust and respect
  • What is agility
    • Characteristics of an agile process
    • Principles of agility
  • Extreme Programming (XP)
    • XP planning
    • XP design
    • XP coding
    • XP testing
  • Advantages of agile development process
  • Team agility
  • Agile process models
    • Adaptive Software Development
    • Dynamic Systems Development Method
      • Dynamic Systems Development Method's life cycle
    • Scrum
      • Backlog
      • Sprints
      • Scrum meetings
      • Demos
    • Feature Driven Development
    • Agile Modeling
  • Agile for the PHP team
    • Pair programming
    • Sustainable working style
    • Information-driven workspace
    • Fixing the process
    • Sitting together
    • Ubiquitous language
    • Stand-up meetings
    • Demonstrate the iteration outcome
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: Ways of Collaboration
  • Team work is challenging
    • Team members make assumptions
  • Making integration possible

• Source control
• Bug control
• Configuration management
• Tools for communication and collaboration
  • Tracking tools

• Summary

• Chapter 7: Continuous Improvement
  • Dealing with change in PHP applications
  • Ensuring process effectiveness
    • Ensure you are improving
  • Evolving PHP applications
  • People development
  • Teams and success
    • Managing the team
    • Leadership
    • Quality focus
    • Constant monitoring
    • The team is human
  • Summary

• Index

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