Drawing on best practices identified at the Software Quality Institute and embodied in bodies of knowledge from the Project Management Institute, the American Society of Quality, IEEE, and the Software Engineering Institute, Quality Software Project Management teaches 34 critical skills that allow any manager to minimize costs, risks, and time-to-market. Written by leading practitioners Robert T. Futrell, Donald F. Shafer, and Linda I. Shafer, it addresses the entire project lifecycle, covering process, project, and people. It contains extensive practical resources-including downloadable checklists, templates, and forms.
"If you're looking for solid, easy-to-follow advice on estimation, requirements gathering, managing change, and more, you can stop now: this is the book for you.
Partial ContentsI Managing Yourself- Why Congruence Is Essential to Managing- Choosing Management- Styles of Coping- Transforming Incongruence into Congruence- Moving Toward CongruenceII Managing Others- Analyzing the Manager's Job- Recognizing Preference...
Project management software.
To close this gap in experience and help you improve your software project management skills, this essential text covers key topics, including: how to understand software development and why it is so difficult, how to plan a project, choose ...
Emphasizing the critical components of successful large-scale software projects, Software Project Management: A
Providing the know-how to manage software projects effectively, Introduction to Software Project Management supplies an acces
Description This book provides a clear and provocative discussion of the economics, metrics, and management strategies necessary to plan and execute a software project successfully. Royce discusses, with refreshing candor,...
The practical handbook of software project management-by practitioners, for practitioners!
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In the first of three volumes about quality, management, and productivity, Weinberg discusses software development organizations in terms of their culture, and he observes the patterns of their behavior. Organizations...