eBook By Category (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...

Few software projects are completed on time, on budget, and to their original specification...

“There are many books available on software risks and software failures...

The Hands-On Guide to Effective Collaboration in Agile Projects To succeed, an agile project demands outstanding collaboration among all its stakeholders...

This overview reveals a project management process that the author has proven to be successful in many complex real-world projects...

Learn to produce quality software on time and within budget!

It has long been accepted in the software industry that projects will be late, over budget, and lacking in agreed upon features due to technical or time limitations...

With software maintenance costs averaging 50% of total computing costs, it is necessary to have an effective maintenance program in place...

Many large scale projects are delivered over schedule and over budget...

The traditional project management rules do not apply in the software world...

Most IT projects fail to deliver, on average, all IT projects run over schedule by 82%, run over cost by 43% and deliver only 52% of the desired functionality...

A revolutionary new resource that brings documentation product management ideas up to date

The 1994 bestselling classic Managing Your Documentation Projects set the industry standard for technical documentation...

• Incorporates PMI's PMBOK (Project Mgt Body of Knowledge)...

Renowned IT project management expert, Joseph Phillips, again delivers an authoritative, easy-to-understand guide that delves into all CompTIA IT Project certification objectives...

Now you can manage IT projects quickly, easily, on time, and on budget! IT project management has developed into a complex process with a broader scope of responsibilities than ever before...

This no-nonsense guide will help project managers achieve greater bottom-line performance, dramatically improved team morale, and long-term competitive advantage...

If you develop software without understanding the requirements, you're wasting your time...

Managing Agile Projects Preface When first placed in the position of leading an agile team nearly five years ago, I had precious little guidance to assist me in my job...

A book for software engineering students and project management professionals in the IT and software industry...

Filled with real-world advice for managing software projects, Murray Cantor's Object-Oriented Project Management with UML shows you how to tackle any project using UML and the latest thinking on project management...

"Project Management" is the team approach to programming...

Forget wizards, you need a slave--someone to do your repetitive, tedious and boring tasks, without complaint and without pay, so you'll have more time to design and write exciting code...

Track your progress and keep everyone in the know


Overcome scheduling challenges

Today's projects are more complex and technically challenging...

In the past, project success has been defined too narrowly as simply meeting time and cost constraints for a given scope of work...

You've been given a project to run...

This is the definitive guide to managing software development projects with the IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP®)...

The process of designing and building today's dynamic Web applications comes with a host of challenges not typically solved by traditional project management methodologies...

The rate of failure of IT projects has remained little changed in survey after survey over the past 15-20 yearsover 40-50%...

Information technology has produced new ethical challenges and concerns in dealing with issues about privacy, security, piracy and professional ethics...

• The increase in project outsourcing has forced traditional programmers to take on the role of project managers and quickly learn how to manage software projects
• The author discusses all of the essentials in widely accepted project management methodology, from managing programmers to assessing and eliminating risk
• The book covers the iterative development model, using Microsoft Project 2003, as well as a variety of methodologies including eXtreme, open source, SQA testing, software life cycle management, and more
• The companion Web site contains tools, case studies and other resources to help even novices get up and running

Aimed at developers and IT managers alike, Software Project Management in Practice offers an invaluable guide to using lightweight software processes in real projects...

The text is designed for both undergraduates and post-graduates, providing a complete introductory course on the subject, along with study-aids and tutorial exercises...

Software Project Secrets: Why Software Projects Fail offers a new path to success in the software industry...

After many years as project manager in product development, I embarked on two software development projects, a new area for me, and found that some of my management skills were not relevant...

The Complete Project Management Office Handbook, Second Edition identifies the PMO as the essential business integrator of the people, processes, and tools that manage or influence project performance...

This second edition guides the reader through successful planning and implementation of a thesis project and provides students in computer science and information systems with all the advice they need...

Projects are becoming the heart of business...