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Getting Results from Software Development Teams
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Getting Results from Software Development Teams

by Lawrence J. Peters and Lawrence Peters
April 2008
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
304 pages
8h 14m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 1. On Software Engineering and Management

All men can sustain adversity. If you want to test a man, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

Software project management might be the most widely ignored, least formalized part of the software profession. But the concept of what software project management is and is not has begun to evolve. Software project management is not software development and all that development involves. It is all about coordinating and directing software development activities by applying proven engineering management methods and principles that have been adapted to software engineering. Understanding how software engineering and project management interrelate is fundamental to the remainder of this book.

But first, a few ...

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