Applied software project management

by Stellman, Andrew

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Full title :Applied software project management / Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene.

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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. The 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; and Testing software.