Better Software Project Management: A Primer for Success by Marsha D. Lewin

By Marsha D. Lewin

An entire advisor to piloting a software program venture to success-on time and inside of budget
This ebook presents beginner software program undertaking managers, software program builders, and an individual providing reusable software program with options for learning the fundamentals of directing a software program venture. famous administration advisor Marsha Lewin makes use of a "been there, performed that" strategy designed to unravel on-the-job difficulties quick and efficiently.
Learn find out how to get a venture in movement instantly within the first chapter's "quick commence" educational. This finished evaluation outlines the bits and bobs of software program undertaking administration, together with the expectancies for a undertaking supervisor, defining the undertaking, pleasant severe wishes, and prime and tracking your crew. those facets of coping with small- to medium-sized undertaking kinds are distinctive within the related vigorous, colloquial kind that demystifies the complexities of the self-discipline. the writer equips you with the instruments to at the same time fulfill the triple constraints of agenda, funds, and caliber in the context of possibility administration, and highlights capability pitfalls and their suggestions to guarantee repeated success.
To assist you get lower than means and remain forward, supplemental, ready-to-use kinds, codecs, and checklists are integrated, besides details on:
? Use of assets, together with humans and funds, the standard of software program constructed, and the prices and risks
? Political and technical concerns affecting venture success
? chance administration methodology
? Shaping your self as a leader
? software program improvement methodologies, from conventional existence cycle to prototyping, and the way they relate to software program venture management
? checking out and its function in venture management
Dozens of real-world examples and diagrams, including a finished bibliography and thesaurus, render higher software program undertaking administration an important source for someone answerable for holding software program tasks inside of price range and on time table.

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