Effective Software Project Management

About the Author

Robert K. Wysocki, Ph.D., has over 40 years experience as a project management consultant and trainer, information systems manager, systems and management consultant, author, training developer, and provider. He has written 14 books on project management and information systems management. One of his books, Effective Project Management: Traditional, Adaptive, Extreme, Third Edition (Wiley, 2003), has been a best-seller and is recommended by the Project Management Institute for the library of every project manager. He has over 30 publications in professional and trade journals and has made more than 100 presentations at professional and trade conferences and meetings. He has developed more than 20 project management courses and trained over 10,000 project managers.

From 1963 to 1970 he was a systems consultant for one of the world’s largest electronics components manufacturers. In that capacity he designed and implemented several computer-based manufacturing and quality control systems. From 1970 to 1990 he held a number of positions in both state supported and private institutions in higher education as MBA Director, Associate Dean of Business, Dean of Computers and Information Systems, Director of Academic Computing, CIO, and Senior Planner.

In 1990, he founded Enterprise Information Insights, Inc. (EII), a project management consulting and training practice specializing in agile project management methodology design and integration, project support office establishment, ...