Part 3. The Project-Management View
The third section of this book looks at software development from a project-management perspective. The view is that in the zeroth-order approximation, managing a software development project is just like managing any other project.
In Chapter 9, “Trade-Offs,” I look at that age-old problem of how to get “those eight great tomatoes into that little-bitty can.” Or, why is it we always seem to be trying to do too much in the time we have allotted to us?
I turn in Chapter 10, “Estimating,” to some rudimentary notions about how to estimate software development projects; our old friend Roscoe Leroy reappears.
In Chapter 11, “Scheduling,” Roscoe continues with his theory of how to schedule software development projects, ...
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