Chapter 9
Collecting ProjectInformation
Chapter Objectives
This chapter discusses the following concepts:
• How to perform formal and regular data gathering and monitoring
• How to hold formal and regular status meetings
• How to perform informal and nonregular data gathering and monitoring
In many ways, software project management, like other types of project management, is highly dependent on the information it collects. What information should be collected and how should one go about collecting it constitute the first set of questions that the software project managers should be prepared to answer. The data that need to be collected are first dictated by what was planned and prepared until now. Of course, no plan or preparation is perfect. ...
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