The Software Project Manager's Handbook: Principles That Work at Work

Software project managers and their team members work individuallytowards a common goal. This book guides both, emphasizing basicprinciples that work at work. Software at work should be pleasantand productive, not just one or the other.

This book emphasizes software project management at work. Theauthor's unique approach concentrates on the concept that successon software projects has more to do with how people thinkindividually and in groups than with programming. He summarizespast successful projects and why others failed. Visibility andcommunication are more important than SQL and C. The book discussesthe technical and people aspects of software and how they relate toone another.

The first part of the text discusses four themes: (1) people, process, product, (2) visibility, (3) configuration management, and(4) IEEE Standards. These themes stress thinking, organization, using what others have built, and people. The second part describesthe software management principles of process, planning, and riskmanagement. Part three discusses software engineering principles, the technical aspects of software projects. The fourth partexamines software practices giving practical meaning to theindividual topics covered in the preceding chapters. The final partof this book continues these practical aspects by illustrating asample project through seven distinctive documents.