"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." --Scott Berkun, Author of The Art of Project
Management
What makes software projects succeed? It takes more than a good idea and
a team of talented programmers. A project manager needs to know how to
guide the team through the entire software project. There are common
pitfalls that plague all software projects and rookie mistakes that are
made repeatedly--sometimes by the same people! Avoiding these pitfalls
is not hard, but it is not necessarily intuitive. Luckily, there are
tried and true techniques that can help any project manager.
In Applied Software Project Management, Andrew Stellman and Jennifer
Greene provide you with tools, techniques, and practices that you can
use on your own projects right away. This book supplies you with the
information you need to diagnose your team's situation and presents
practical advice to help you achieve your goal of building better
software.
Topics include:
- Planning a software project
- Helping a team estimate its workload
- Building a schedule
- Gathering software requirements and creating use cases
- Improving programming with refactoring, unit testing, and version
control
- Managing an outsourced project
- Testing software
Jennifer Greene and Andrew Stellman have been building software together
since 1998. Andrew comes from a programming background and has managed
teams of requirements analysts, designers, and developers. Jennifer has
a testing background and has managed teams of architects, developers,
and testers. She has led multiple large-scale outsourced projects.
Between the two of them, they have managed every aspect of software
development. They have worked in a wide range of industries, including
finance, telecommunications, media, nonprofit, entertainment,
natural-language processing, science, and academia. For more information
about them and this book, visit http: //www.stellman-greene.com.
