 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 any project manager can use. 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 their work
- 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 largescale 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 fi nance, telecommunications, media, non-profi t,
entertainment, natural-language processing, science, and academia.
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