Applied Software Project Management (Paperback)

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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
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.

 
Table of Contents

Preface

1. Introduction  
      Tell Everyone the Truth All the Time    
    Trust Your Team      Review Everything, Test
   Everything      All Software Engineers Are Created
   Equal      Doing the Project Right Is Most Efficient
        Part I: Tools and Techniques    
    Part II: Using Project Management Effectively
   Part One. Tools and Techniques
   1
   Software Project Planning
        Understand the Project Needs  
      Create the Project Plan      Diagnosing
   Project Planning Problems
2. Estimation    
    Elements of a Successful Estimate      Wideband
   Delphi Estimation      Other Estimation Techniques
        Diagnosing Estimation Problems
3. Project Schedules  
      Building the Project Schedule    
    Managing Multiple Projects      Use the Schedule
   to Manage Commitments      Diagnosing Scheduling
   Problems

4. Reviews    
    Inspections      Deskchecks    
    Walkthroughs      Code Reviews  
      Pair Programming      Use Inspections to
   Manage Commitments      Diagnosing Review Problems

5. Software Requirements
        Requirements Elicitation    
    Use Cases      Software Requirements
   Specification      Change Control    
    Introduce Software Requirements Carefully    
    Diagnosing Software Requirements Problems

6. Design and Programming
        Review the Design    
    Version Control with Subversion      Refactoring
        Unit Testing      Use
   Automation      Be Careful with Existing Projects
        Diagnosing Design and Programming Problems

7. Software Testing  
      Test Plans and Test Cases      Test
   Execution      Defect Tracking and Triage
        Test Environment and Performance Testing
        Smoke Tests      Test
   Automation      Postmortem Reports  
      Using Software Testing Effectively    
    Diagnosing Software Testing Problems
   Part Two. Using Project Management
   Effectively

8. Understanding Change
        Why Change Fails    
    How to Make Change Succeed
9. Management and Leadership
        Take Responsibility    
    Do Everything Out in the Open      Manage the
   Organization      Manage Your Team
10. Managing an Outsourced Project
         Prevent Major Sources of Project Failure
         Management Issues in Outsourced Projects
         Collaborate with the Vendor
11. Process Improvement
         Life Without a Software Process  
       Software Process Improvement      Moving
    Forward
    Bibliography
    index