13.1 Project Management
13.1.1 The Need for Project Management
We have spent several chapters of this text discussing software design and the software development process and methodologies. Why can’t we just follow these processes and methodologies and complete a project? What if a project requires only two or three people? On the surface it may seem that a small project can just follow a development process and be left alone to complete a project without any project management. However, we may question how it is determined that a project needs only two or three people. Is there a software development process that these people all agree on and have experience in? Furthermore, how does anyone, including the project team members, know if a project ...
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