Software Engineering Project Management or Fundamentals of Financial Management Concise 4E with Xtra CD ROM and InfoTrac Access Card

Software Engineering Project Management

Author: Edward Yourdon

Newly revised for 2001, this second edition of Richard Thayer's popular, bestselling book presents a top-down, practical view of managing a successful software engineering project. The book builds a framework for project management activities based on the planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling model. Thayer provides information designed to help you understand and successfully perform the unique role of a project manager.

This book is a must for all project managers in the software field. The text focuses on the five functions of general management by first describing each function and then detailing the project management activities that support each function. This second edition shows you how to manage a software development project, discusses current software engineering management methodologies and techniques, and presents general descriptions and project management problems. The book serves as a guide for your future project management activities. The text also offers students sufficient background and instructional material to serve as a main or supplementary text for a course in software engineering project management.

Note: The 2001 revision includes a new Chapter 4 Introduction and a new paper that replaces an older paper.

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Reprints and five new papers present a "top-down view" of the subject. Covers software engineering and SE project management--planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling a SE project. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Contributors of Original Papers	v
	Foreword
	Edward Yourdon	vii
	W.W. Royce	ix
	Preface	xi
Chapter 1	Introduction to Management	1
	Management Science, Theory, and Practice	4
	The Management Process in 3-D Harvard Business Review, November-December 1969	14
Chapter 2	Software Engineering Process	17
	Software's Chronic Crisis Scientific American, Vol. 271, No. 3, September 1994	20
	System Development Woes Communications of the ACM, October 1993	29
	Software Engineering Software Engineering, M. Dorfman and R.H. Thayer, eds., 1997	30
	Cabability Maturity Model for Software Software Engineering, M. Dorfman and R.H. Thayer, eds., 1997	48
Chapter 3	Software Engineering Project Management	61
	The Mythical Man-Month Datamation, December 1974	64
	Software Engineering Project Management	72
	Software Life Cycle Models	105
Chapter 4	Planning a Software Engineering Project	115
	Software Requirements: A Tutorial Software Engineering, M. Dorfman and R.H. Thayer, eds., 1997	119
	Fundamentals of Project Management Journal of Systems Management, November 1978	141
	Applying Corporate Software Development Policies TRW, Defense and Space Systems Group, December 1977	149
	Inserting New Technologies into a Software Project	167
	Fundamentals of Master Scheduling for the Project Manager Project Management Journal, June 1985	171
	Work Breakdown Structures	183
	Software Risk Management	195
	Standard Software Project Management Plans	203
Chapter 5	Software Cost, Schedule, and Size	213
	Software Estimating Technology: A Survey	218
	Synopsis of COCOMO	230
	How to Estimate Software System Size Adapted from Chapter 7 of The Software Measurement Guidebook, SPC-91060-CMC	246
	How to Estimate Software Project Schedules	257
	By Popular Demand: Software Estimating Rules of Thumb Computer, March 1996	267
	Cost Models for Future Software Life Cycle Processes: COCOMO 2.0 Annals of Software Engineering, Volume 1, 1995	270
Chapter 6	Organizing a Software Engineering Project	309
	Organization Alternatives for Project Managers Project Management Quarterly, March 1977	312
	The Matrix Organization A Decade of Project Management, 1981	320
	The Effect of Programming Team Structures on Programming Tasks Communications of the ACM, March 1981	333
Chapter 7	Staffing a Software Engineering Project	341
	How to Pick Eagles Datamation, September 15, 1985	344
	Not All Programmers Are Created Equal University of California at Irvine, Irvine CA, Ucirv-95-PROC-CSS-006	346
	Managing the Consequences of DP Turnover: A Human Resources Planning Perspective Proceedings of the 20th ACM Computer Personnel Research Conference, 1983	356
	I'm OK--and You're Not Savvy, April 1984	364
	Trial by Firing: Saga of a Rookie Manager IEEE Software, September 1994	366
Chapter 8	Directing a Software Engineering Project	369
	Leadership: The Effective Use of Power Management of Personal Quarterly, 1971	372
	Delegate Your Way to Success Computer Decisions, March 1981	376
	Excitement and Commitment: Keys to Project Success Project Management Journal, December 1984	380
	Motivating and Keeping Software Developers Computer, January 1997	388
	Who is the DP Professional? Datamation, September 1978	391
	Conflict Management for Project Managers Extracted from Conflict Management for Project Managers, 1982	395
Chapter 9	Controlling a Software Engineering Project	407
	Software Project Management: Threads of Control	410
	Making Software Development Estimates "Good" Datamation, September 1981	423
	Criteria for Controlling Projects According to Plan Project Management Journal, June 1986	426
	Software Quality Assurance: A Management Perspective	433
	Elements of Software Configuration Management IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, January 1984	441
Chapter 10	Software Metrics and Visiblity of Progress	451
	Software Peer Reviews	454
	Software Project Management Audits Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 2, 1981	470
	The Unit Development Folder (UDF): A Ten Year Perspective Software Engineering Project Management, 1st ed., R.H. Thayer, editor, 1988	477
	Software Management Metrics	488
Chapter 11	Epilogue: The Silver Bullets	503
	Software Engineering Project Management: The Silver Bullets of Software Engineering	504
	Appendix
	Glossary	506
	Author Biography	531

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