Applied software project management / Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-301) and index.

Introduction -- Tools and techniques -- Software project planning -- Estimation -- Project schedules -- Reviews -- Software requirements -- Design and programming -- Software testing -- Using project management effectively -- Understanding change -- Management and leadership -- Managing an outsourced project -- Process improvement.

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 http://www.stellman-greene.com.

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