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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”
I found Applied Software Project Management to be well-written and comprehensive. I especially liked the inclusion of leadership issues (chapter 10) and the challenges of outsourcing (chapter 11).
-- Grady Booch, Author and IBM Fellow
The challenges in effectively managing software development
projects are well known. Books on software project management tend to
focus on the tools and techniques for managing projects. There are two
problems with this: 1) not every project needs to use every technique,
but it is not clear which techniques to use for particular projects;
and 2) projects are frequently derailed by social and organizational
concerns, not technical problems. Applied Software Project Management by Stellman and Greene offers a fresh perspective by
providing practical advice to project leaders on project management. It
offers a way for project managers to select the specific techniques
that will benefit a particular project.
This book provides practical advice on how to convince stakeholders
that quality activities are worth the investment, how to determine what
are the most important quality practices to implement, given limited
time and budget, and how to work with others and motivate them to
improve the development process.
--Sandra Slaughter, Professor, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
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stepping-stone for missed expectations is set when the decision to fund
a project is based on investment assumptions that are not shared with
the project manager. Shareholder value is equally undermined when
business leaders cannot easily determine the true status of their
projects. Stellman and Greene open the door to greater profitability by
making the case for top-down and bottom-up transparency, from project
conception through closeout. Read this book for some practical guidance
you can start applying right away.
--Richard Toledo, Executive Director/Eastern U.S.
For Program Planning Professionals, Inc., also known as PCubed
Whether your software team is centrally located or geographically
distributed, Applied Software Project Management provides practical
advice on how to effectively manage the efforts of your team.
--Sanjay Podder, PMP, CSQA, Accenture IDC -- Avanade AG, Avanade Mumbai Center Lead
To be honest, I wanted to write this book. There are a fair number of
books that discuss project management from a philosophical or
theoretical point of view, but few that address it in real, practical
terms. Applied Software Project Management does just that and does it
well. Stellman and Greene walk through the aspects of software
development, including defining a project vision, choosing a
development process, configuration management, requirements tracking,
and testing, with real examples and discussions of tools used in the
wild.
I’ve chosen this book for my graduate software engineering class and
will make it part of any client project. It’s honest, practical, and
full of real experience.
--Dan Pilone, Senior Software Architect with
Blueprint Technologies and Lecturer at the Catholic Univesity of
America in Washington, D.C.
Managing your first software project? Want to get a whole lot better at it? Read Applied Software Project Management. Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene capture the best practices you need to herd even the most challenging “cats” and keep any project moving forward.
The authors work hard to streamline project management and minimize its overhead. They cover the entire lifecycle: defining a vision, building teams, estimating, scheduling, requirements, design, coding, testing, and more.
If you’re struggling to deliver on time and on budget, Part [II] will help you step back and see the forest. The authors cover issues that keep CIOs awake: leading change, supervising outsourced projects, improving processes. If you want to move up the IT ladder (or even stay on it), you need to understand this stuff. Better sooner than later.
-- Bill Camarda, from the January 2006 Read Only (the Barnes & Noble review)
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