Best Practices in Software Engineering: A Project Manager's Guide

Author: Christensen
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book includes three main parts:
● Software Systems Engineering, which elaborates on the best approach to successful software development projects, where product development starts from a system-level perspective, covering product specifications, testing, installation, maintenance, and customer usage.
● Process Management and Control, describing the key activities required to define, support, and manage the software development process. In addition to discussing critical issues such as lifecycle process definition, product and process reviews, configuration management, quality assurance, and available IEEE standards, it also addresses the important topic of software process improvement.
● Project Planning and Management, which concludes the book by providing an organic overview of cost, schedule estimation and control, risk management, and various metrics involved in executing these tasks. The IEEE Software Engineering Standards capture many fundamental best practices in software engineering project management, and the content of this book is derived from these original sources. This book can help readers successfully apply these standards to their projects and organizations. To achieve this goal, the author provides detailed discussions on standards that cover the following three key management areas:
Software Systems Engineering;
Software Product Development Process;
Planning and Control of Software Project Activities.
The book contains a wealth of new practice information applicable to managing software development projects. The examples include specific criteria for estimation reviews and the steps for implementing these reviews. The book is well-structured and easy to read, making it valuable for project managers, software engineers, and university instructors.