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Applied Software Project Management
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Applied Software Project Management

by Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene
November 2005
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
324 pages
13h 21m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Doing the Project Right Is Most Efficient

The first part of this book is a presentation of techniques, tools, and practices for every phase of a software project. They are designed to be implemented one at a time and in any order (with a few restrictions). This means that you have a lot of freedom to choose the approach that is best for your project.

But no matter which one you choose to implement first, you can be sure that your project will be better off with the practice than it would be without it. This is because building the software correctly the first time is always preferable to doing it wrong and having to go back and fix it.

Every practice in this book is designed to help you build software efficiently and accurately. What's more, there are many ways to implement every single one of these practices. We put a great deal of effort into developing the most efficient version of each tool, technique, or practice we present in this book. We did this by stripping out as many of the "bells and whistles" as possible from each practice without compromising its basic integrity.

There are more complex and involved ways to implement every single idea in this book. Wherever possible, there are references that will point you to more in-depth reading that contains advanced applications of these tools and techniques . The goal of this book is to help a project manager put the basic versions of these practices in place quickly, in order to see immediate improvement in the efficiency of a ...

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