Software Projects Secrets

Why Software Projects Fail

Book Details:

Publisher:	Apress
Series:	Apress
Author:	George Stepanek
Edition:	1
ISBN-10:	1430251018
ISBN-13:	9781430251019

Pages:	184
Published:	Nov 16 2012
Posted:	Nov 19 2014
Language:	English
Book format:	PDF
Book size:	3.42 MB

Book Description:

Software Project Secrets: Why Software Projects Fail offers a new path to success in the software industry. This book reaches out to managers, developers, and customers who use industry-standard methodologies, but whose projects still struggle to succeed. Author George Stepanek analyzes the project management methodology itself, a critical factor that has thus far been overlooked. He explains why it creates problems for software development projects and begins by describing 12 ways in which software projects are different from other kinds of projects. He also analyzes the project management body of knowledge to discover 10 hidden assumptions that are invalid in the context of software projects. Table of ContentsIntroduction Why Software Is Different Project Management Assumptions Case Study: The Billing System Project The New Agile Methodologies Budgeting Agile Projects Case Study: The Billing System Revisited Afterword

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