Project Management Anti-Pattern Diagnosis: Avoiding Common Errors in Software Development (Software Project Management Series)

Author: Brown
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: The purpose of this book is to help individuals or teams manage software development projects. This is a challenging task because each project has its own characteristics, with numerous variables that are constantly changing. The three major factors influencing a project are people, technology, and processes. If you learn how to manage them effectively, you can achieve success regardless of what happens around you. This work is generally interesting, and we try to convey some of that enjoyment through the solutions we provide for certain project management challenges. If you are already a project management leader or a leader of a development team, or if you have made project management your lifelong career, then AntiPatterns will be very relevant to you. This book can serve as both a guide and a reference for project management. Using it from a strategic perspective will help you avoid repeating common mistakes in software project management, while tactically, it will help you and your project move beyond the shadows of existing errors. The book comprehensively and meticulously examines common and universal project management issues (error practices leading to failure) in software development projects from the aspects of people, technology, and processes. It explores the background, manifestations, symptoms, causes, consequences, and examples of these problems, and provides proven, reusable successful solutions. It guides software developers on how to avoid and prevent these problems, how to learn from a wealth of failure experiences, improve software project management, and increase the success rate of software development. The author is a renowned expert in AntiPatterns for project management, with extensive experience in software development, having developed over 20 successful solutions for managing software development. Target Audience: Software development engineers and project managers.