Applied Software Project Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Inhaltsverzeichnis
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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Portrait

Jennifer Greene, has spent the past 15 years or so building software for many different kinds of companies. She's worked for small start-ups and some huge companies along the way. She's built software test teams and helped lots of companies diagnose and deal with habitual process problems so that they could build better software. Since her start in software test and process definition, she's branched out into development management and project management. She's currently managing a big development team for a global media company and she's managed just about every aspect of software development through her career.


Jennifer founded Stellman & Greene Consulting with Andrew Stellman in 2003, initially to serve the scientific and academic community. They have worked in a wide range of industries including finance, telecommunications, media, non-profit, entertainment, natural language processing, science and academia. They do speaking engagements, provide training on development practices, manage teams, and build software. Together, they've written two highly acclaimed books on project management Head First PMP and Applied Software Project Management, Head First C#, and most recently just finished up Beautiful Teams.

For more information about Jennifer, Andrew Stellman, and their books, visit http://www.stellman-greene.com.


Andrew Stellman, despite being raised a New Yorker, has lived in Pittsburgh twice. The first time was when he graduated from Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science, and then again when he and Jenny were starting their consulting business and writing their first project management book for O'Reilly.

When he moved back to his hometown, his first job after college was as a programmer at EMI-Capitol Records--which actually made sense, since he went to LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and the Performing Arts to study cello and jazz bass guitar. He and Jenny first worked together at that same financial software company, where he was managing a team of programmers. He's since managed various teams of software engineers, requirements analysts, and led process improvement efforts.

Andrew keeps himself busy eating an enormous amount of string cheese and Middle Eastern desserts, playing music (but video games even more), studying taiji and aikido, having a girlfriend named Lisa, and owing a pomeranian.

For more information about Andrew, Jennifer Greene, and their books, visit http://www.stellman-greene.com.


photo by nisha sondhe