| Overview"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
https://www.stellman-greene.com.
Editorial ReviewsProduct Description"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 multiplelarge-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. |
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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') Average Customer Rating: based on 16 reviews. Practical Advice for PMs, 2008-09-07 Reviewer rating: This book gets five stars, because from the first time I picked it up, it helped solve a problem I had at work with a highly annoying colleague who constantly went over my head to report to higher management anytime she even suspected I or a member of my team might be doing something wrong or not the way she would do it. Resorting to outright lies and spreading office gossip was not below her. Asking her to stop, being nice to her or being angry with her did no good. By following some of the advice in this book I was able to start to turn things around within a single day.
That is the really great thing about this book, it provides practical advice from experience project managers not only about tools and methodology of managing projects that work, but also the pitfalls of office politics and how to successfully deal with them.
The methods and tools presented in this book are very good, and are what the authors have found works in their projects. You might find that some of this is not applicable to you if you work in an organisation that already has an established methodology, or if the client insists things are done a certain way. It certainly presents some new ideas and tools to try that might improve your current proccess.
Another great thing about this book is its simplicity. There are many techniques for everything from project estimation to software testing, some of which require a high level of expertise. The techniques presented here are ones that are simple and easy to implement.
It is always good to learn from other peoples success, and this book gives you an insight into how its authors successfully manage their own projects that is valuable to every project manager.
| Excellent resource for technical project managers, 2008-03-31 Reviewer rating: I bumped into this book by way of "Head First PMP", also written by Stellman and Greene. Because I liked the PMP resource so much, I thought I should give this book a chance and I was not disappointed. Packed with useful information, case studies and examples, this book is a resource any technical project manager will want to have in their collection.
One bonus I did not count on was the companion website which includes downloadable templates, PPT slides and other electronic assets.
Highly recommended!
| excellent purchase, 2008-03-11 Reviewer rating: This is a nice book, everything about it is so neat and nice. I am glad I purchased this book from Amazon. | This a handbook or guide, 2007-09-03 Reviewer rating: Applied Software Project Management
Reviewed by Steven D. Sewell, PMP
Project Management Institute, Tampa Bay Chapter
Having been peripherally involved as a software release project team member in the past, I knew enough to get my piece of the puzzle delivered. The information in this book allows me to broaden my perspective and actually comprehend the picture I see on the puzzle box cover. The book is written in a straight ahead manner. If you are one who like examples of what is being discussed, then this book is for you. The use of clear definitions makes each topic understandable and the analogies make them memorable. Tables and scripts are used throughout to exemplify each tool and technique. Most useful in practice are the sections that aid in the diagnosing of problems that can be encountered. This book definitely hits its goal of delivering a practical guide into the hands of a software project manager. The only improvement would be to have "handbook" or "guide" placed somewhere on the cover. | A good summary and comprehensive bibliography to those who want to go deeper, 2006-08-01 Reviewer rating: This book covers concisely all the modern aspects os software project management, without the complexity found in more formal PM sources like the PMBOK. Moreover, the job of translating the broad and general concepts covered in the PMBOK to practical day-to-day scenarios is the major benefit from buying it. It won't, however, cover an specific issue like estimation to the level that enables you to be an estimator (this subject, for instance, is only 17 pages long), but will provide you the guidelines and references to additional material to do so. |
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