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Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
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Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules

by Steve McConnell
July 1996
Intermediate to advanced
680 pages
19h 53m
English
Microsoft Press
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Further Reading

Boehm, Barry W., ed. Software Risk Management. Washington, DC: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1989. This collection of papers is based on the premise that successful project managers are good risk managers. Boehm has collected a nicely balanced set of papers from both technical and business sources. One of the best features of the book is that Boehm contributed about 70 pages of original writing himself. That 70 pages is a good introduction to software risk management. You might think that a tutorial published in 1989 would seem dated by now, but it actually presents a more forward-looking view of software project management than you'll find most other places.

Boehm, Barry W. "Software Risk Management: Principles and Practices." ...

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