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Applied Software Project Management
"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.
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
3. Estimation
Elements of a Successful Estimate
Wideband Delphi Estimation
Other Estimation Techniques
Diagnosing Estimation Problems
4. Project Schedules
Building the Project Schedule
Managing Multiple Projects
Use the Schedule to Manage Commitments
Diagnosing Scheduling Problems
5. Reviews
Inspections
Deskchecks
Walkthroughs
Code Reviews
Pair Programming
Use Inspections to Manage Commitments
Diagnosing Review Problems
6. Software Requirements
Requirements Elicitation
Use Cases
Software Requirements Specification
Change Control
Introduce Software Requirements Carefully
Diagnosing Software Requirements Problems
7. 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
8. 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
9. Understanding Change
Why Change Fails
How to Make Change Succeed
10. Management and Leadership
Take Responsibility
Do Everything Out in the Open
Manage the Organization
Manage Your Team
11. Managing an Outsourced Project
Prevent Major Sources of Project Failure
Management Issues in Outsourced Projects
Collaborate with the Vendor
12. Process Improvement
Life Without a Software Process
Software Process Improvement
Moving Forward
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