Roundtable on Project Management: A Shape Forum Dialogue - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 093263348X ISBN 13: 9780932633484

Publisher: Dorset House, 2001

Synopsis

Hunting for lessons on software project management, consultants James Bullock, Gerald M. Weinberg, and Marie Benesh selected forty experts’ most potent contributions to SHAPE, Weinberg’s Web-based, subscription-only discussion forum.

New and experienced software developers and managers will benefit from this fast-paced dialogue on starting, steering, and finishing successful -- even not so successful -- software projects.

Contributors include Wayne Angel, James Bach, Jim Batterson, Marie Benesh, Rick Brenner, James Bullock, Brian Crook, Jerry M. Denman, Esther Derby, Joe Dindo, Dale Emery, Danny R. Faught, Pat Ferdinandi, Phillip Fuhrer, Jesse M. Gordon, Elisabeth Hendrickson, Kevin Huigens, Steve Jackson, Jim Jarrett, Steve Jenkin, Dave Kleist, Karen López, Pat McGee, Graham Oakes, George Olsen, Bill Pardee, Sue Petersen, Dwayne Phillips, Brian Pioreck, Brian Richter, Sharon Marsh Roberts, Stiles M. Roberts II, Johanna Rothman, Bertrand Sallé, Brett Schuchert, Bill Seitz, John Suzuki, Daniel Starr, James Tierney, and Jerry Weinberg.

Whether you are a technical star adjusting to management responsibilities or an experienced leader looking for fresh perspectives, you will benefit from this intense dose of real-world wisdom drawn from so many managers’ best advice.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Years of Project Management Expertise Captured from a Lively Web-based Dialogue.

From the Author:

“Jerry Weinberg’s SHAPE forum is what I would call the Algonquin Round Table of systems development. For a period of years, Dorothy Parker, Alexander Woollcott, Heywood Broun, and Robert Benchley gathered for long lunches at the ‘round table’ in the Algonquin Hotel in New York City, and discussed every subject from politics to literature to society itself.

“Although we are not a bunch of Manhattan writers, we Shapers are familiar with the entire existing canon of systems development. (In fact, we wrote some of it.) Hanging about on SHAPE are writers who collectively have a couple thousand years of system building experience.

“What we’ve done -- Marie and Jerry and I -- is take part of two years’ worth of our own group’s discussions, and shaped the threads into a series of books. The shaping process was mainly a matter of organization, because the content is what people posted in their own words. It couldn’t really be any other way. How could a few of us duplicate or even represent two millennia of refined experience? We didn’t try.”

-- James Bullock, coeditor

About this edition

• Publisher: Dorset House
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 093263348X
• ISBN 13: 9780932633484
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172
• Editor: Bullock James, Weinberg Gerald M., Benesh Marie