Software Project Management presents a new management framework uniquely suited to the complexities of modern software development. Walker Royce's pragmatic perspective exposes the shortcomings of many well-accepted management priorities and equips software professionals with state-of-the-art knowledge derived from his twenty years of successful from-the-trenches project management experience.

Software Project Management: A Unified Framework

Business & Money

Royce, Walker

Management & Leadership

Addison-Wesley Professional

Results-Based Software Management: Achieve Better Outcomes with Finite Resources Effective software development is no longer merely an IT concern: today, it is crucial to the entire enterprise. However, most businesspeople are not ready to make informed decisions about software initiatives. The Economics of Iterative Software Development: Steering Toward Better Business Results will prepare them. Drawing on decades of software development and business experience, the authors demonstrate how to utilize practical, economics-based techniques to plan and manage software projects for maximum return on technology investments. The authors begin by dispelling widespread myths about software costs, explaining why traditional, “engineering-based” software management introduces unacceptable inefficiencies in today’s development environments. Next, they show business and technical managers how to combine the principles of economics and iterative development to achieve optimal results with limited resources. Using their techniques, readers will learn how to build systems that enable maximum business innovation and process improvement–and implement software processes that allow them to do so consistently. Highlights include <ul>
<li> How to repeatedly quantify the value a project is delivering and quickly adjust course as needed </li> <li> How to reduce software project size, complexity, and other “project killers” </li> <li> How to identify and eliminate software development processes that don’t work </li> <li> How to improve development processes, reduce rework, mitigate risk, and identify inefficiencies </li> <li> How to create more proficient teams by improving individual skills, team interactions, and organizational capability </li> <li> Where to use integrated, automated tools to improve effectiveness </li> <li> What to measure, and when: specific metrics for project inception, elaboration, construction, and transition </li> </ul>
 The Economics of Iterative Software Development: Steering Toward Better Business Results will help both business and technical managers make better decisions throughout the software development process–and it will help team and project leaders keep any project or initiative on track, so they can deliver more value faster.

The Economics of Iterative Software Development: Steering Toward Better Business Results

Computers & Technology

Bittner, Kurt

Perrow, Mike

Computer Science

Software Project Management presents a new management framework uniquely suited to the complexities of modern software development. Walker Royce's pragmatic perspective exposes the shortcomings of many well-accepted management priorities and equips software professionals with state of the art knowledge derived from his twenty years of successful from the trenches project management experience. This book provides a clear and provocative discussion of the economics, metrics, and management strategies needed to plan and execute a software project successfully. Royce discusses--with refreshing candor--some of the fads, follies, and excesses of the software industry, clearly differentiating proven techniques from obsolete methods. Paired with this insightful examination are compelling arguments for new management approaches that are sure to stimulate debate. The relative impacts of these new techniques are quantified through simple economic analyses, common sense, and anecdotal evidence. The resulting framework strikes a pragmatic balance between theory and practice that can be readily applied in today's challenging development environment. An extensive case study analysis of a large-scale, million-line project--deployed successfully on schedule and under budget using these techniques--further illustrates their application. Software Project Management provides the software industry with field-proven benchmarks for making tactical decisions and strategic choices that will enhance an organization's probability of success. This book includes: <ul>
<li>Top ten principles for modern software management </li>
<li>Strategies for smoothly transitioning an organization to modern processes and technologies (such as Rational's Unified process) </li>
<li>Methods for keeping software engineering teams motivated and effectively prioritized </li>
<li>Insight into the impacts of technology, people, and economics on managing a project </li>
<li>Metrics and forecasting guidance for project costs, schedules, and quality control </li> </ul>

Software Project Management: A Unified Framework (paperback) (The Addison-wesley Object Technology)

Results-Based Software Management: Achieve Better Outcomes with Finite Resources    Effective software development is no longer merely an IT concern: today, it is crucial to the entire enterprise. However, most businesspeople are not ready to make informed decisions about software initiatives.   The Economics of Iterative Software Development: Steering Toward Better Business Results   will prepare them. Drawing on decades of software development and business experience, the authors demonstrate how to utilize practical, economics-based techniques to plan and manage software projects for maximum return on technology investments.   The authors begin by dispelling widespread myths about software costs, explaining why traditional, “engineering-based” software management introduces unacceptable inefficiencies in today’s development environments. Next, they show business and technical managers how to combine the principles of economics and iterative development to achieve optimal results with limited resources. Using their techniques, readers will learn how to build systems that enable maximum business innovation and process improvement–and implement software processes that allow them to do so consistently.   Highlights include   How to repeatedly quantify the value a project is delivering and quickly adjust course as needed   How to reduce software project size, complexity, and other “project killers”   How to identify and eliminate software development processes that don’t work   How to improve development processes, reduce rework, mitigate risk, and identify inefficiencies   How to create more proficient teams by improving individual skills, team interactions, and organizational capability   Where to use integrated, automated tools to improve effectiveness    What to measure, and when: specific metrics for project inception, elaboration, construction, and transition      The Economics of Iterative Software Development: Steering Toward Better Business Results   will help both business and technical managers make better decisions throughout the software development process–and it will help team and project leaders keep any project or initiative on track, so they can deliver more value faster.

The Economics of Iterative Software Development (Paperback): Steering Toward Better Business Results

Perrow, Michael

Programming

English has more than a quarter-million words. We have many, many options for word selections, sentence structures and paragraph styles. So much opportunity to be creative. So many alternatives to fine-tune your thoughts. So many opportunities to go astray. English is a wonderfully diverse language. If you ask fifty different people to describe an object, an event, or an idea, you will get fifty different perspectives, each articulated with distinct words and style. There are no absolutes -- no best writer, best speaker, best style -- and no best words. However, there are patterns and principles of English usage that are generally persuasive, and misusage patterns that are generally ineffective. Diversity of thought and communications are critical to teamwork, to achievement in the workplace, to teaching, learning, and parenting, and to growing our networks of friends and family. The perspective from which you attack a problem, tell a story, listen to someone else’s position, or write a message is important to understanding the solution, the moral, or the point. If you are capable of looking, reasoning, and hearing different perspectives, you can be far more effective at communicating and achieving progress in most endeavors. "Eureka!" illuminates the communications power, the amusement, and the oddities to be found in the English language. Instead of highlighting all the mechanics and hairball rules of English, Walker Royce leads you through an educational and entertaining workout of your English knowledge and skills. Provocative insights into high stakes communications like speaking, coaching, selling, interviewing and romance are mixed with English language trivia, humorous anecdotes, and unique puzzles. This unique perspective will transform you into a better listener, writer, speaker and teammate, and it will stimulate some deeper self-observation -- a catalyst for improving your own communications proficiency.

Eureka!: Discover and Enjoy the Hidden Power of the English Language

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Morgan James Publishing

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