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| Software Project Survival Guide (Pro -- Best Practices) | 
 enlarge | Author: Steve Mcconnell
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  63 reviews
Sales Rank: 35451
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.9
MPN: 1-57231-621-7
ISBN: 1572316217
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.10684
UPC: 790145162175
EAN: 9781572316218
ASIN: 1572316217
Publication Date: November 14, 1997
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Product Description
How to make sure your next important project isn't your last. Equip yourself with SOFTWARE PROJECT SURVIVAL GUIDE. It's for everyone with a stake in the outcome of a development project--and especially for those without formal software project management training. That includes top managers, executives, clients, investors, end-user representatives, project managers, and technical leads.Here you'll find guidance from the acclaimed author of the classics CODE COMPLETE and RAPID DEVELOPMENT. Steve McConnell draws on solid research and a career's worth of hard-won experience to map the surest path to your goal--what he calls "one specific approach to software development that works pretty well most of the time for most projects." Nineteen chapters in four sections cover the concepts and strategies you need for mastering the development process, including planning, design, management, quality assurance, testing, and archiving. For newcomers and seasoned project managers alike, SOFTWARE PROJECT SURVIVAL GUIDE draws on a vast store of techniques to create an elegantly simplified and reliable framework for project management success.So don't worry about wandering among complex sets of project management techniques that require years to sort out and master. SOFTWARE PROJECT SURVIVAL GUIDE goes straight to the heart of the matter to help your projects succeed. And that makes it a required addition to every professional's bookshelf.
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 I've read this book a long time ago, but the remembering is good May 3, 2008
I've read this book several years ago, in 1998, I think. It was my first glimpse on software project planning. At the time, I was a bit confusing, the book has a lot of examples of very big projects. But the best practices it provides are useful until today.
Don't know if it's a good book nowadays, but it's definitely a book I won't forget.
 A must for project leaders April 6, 2008
The book presents an analysis about the project management in a very practical way.
In it, Steve demystifies that in a project the "well" and "fast" are in opposite sides. By contrast, him tells us that for do it fast and cheap, it is essential to do it well.
A project leader should have it in his desk.
well-researched February 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm a one-man database development shop at a nonprofit with a shoestring budget. Without the benefit of senior level programmers, I've had to learn most of my software engineering lessons the hard way- by experience.
I picked up this book seven years into the job, which in retrospect was about seven years too late. In some respects, this book repeats lessons that that have already become obvious through experience (e.g., software testing needs to be performed separately from development). But, this lends credibility to my judgment, and provides new insights substantiated by software engineering research studies. Non-technical management and funders are responsive to the hard figures I often find myself citing from this book. For example:
1) Programmers are 2.5 times more productive in a quiet office vs. a cubicle- so, I need to be allowed to work from home
2) The most efficient programmers are 10 times more productive than the least efficient programmers- really, you would think this would be obvious, but when work needs to be contracted, the low bidder is not necessarily the best choice over the long haul
Currently faced with my most substantial and challenging programming project yet, I'm essentially using this book as a cookbook to process. Upfront I was a bit overwhelmed with the scope of the project. Having finished the book, I have a well-defined process in place, am confident this will get done, and feel I am much more articulate describing the stages of software development to management and contracted vendors. Some presumably industry-standard strategies are proving invaluable- implementing a Top Ten Risk list to ensure that major barriers are addressed upfront rather than deferred, creating specific milestones, etc.
This book (or an equivalent) should absolutely be mandatory for anyone about to take on their first major software project. It is most useful because it reads like a cookbook- guiding you through all the phases of software development, one after the other.
 The presented methodology is good but... January 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
will the book be convincing enough for you to adopt it?
I have not found this book very fun to read because of its very structured and academic format. I have not learned much from it as much of its content is general wisdom that anyone with many years of experience in the industry has probably seen around before. Something positive I can say about the book is that I totally adhere to the methodology explained in the book. In my software development career, I have experienced myself the benefits of applying similar software development management methodology and I have also seen the negative consequences of not following it.
Purpose: Project management templates June 11, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The biggest part of managing a large project with deliverables is knowing the timing and details of your deliverables to make sure that all pieces are in place and planned for...time and resource wise. This book is a huge help in providing those pieces. Whether you use all the pieces or not it gives you the details you need to think through before you incorporate a deliverable and help you weigh how much detail and effort needs to be a part of it.
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