Software Project Management Kit For Dummies? - Softcover

Mandanis, Greg; Wyatt, Allen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 076450634X ISBN 13: 9780764506345

Publisher: For Dummies, 2000

Synopsis

The seasoned programmer and novice alike find this reference the ideal resource for getting a project off to the right start. Friendly, practical advice is combined with the latest software in this ...For Dummies edition. Follow your expert guide through planning, development, testing, and implementation -- the first steps to your project's success. Then get your hands on scheduling, assigning resources and estimating costs, and best of all, making your software happen.

The book's CD-ROM includes trial versions of Microsoft Project 2000, Soffrant TRACK, and Cost Xpert as well as templates and a wealth of other planning tools.

About this title

About the Author

Greg Mandanis is a Software Quality Assurance (SQA) project manager and teaches software project management courses at eProjectSchedulers.com.

From the Back Cover

Microsoft Project 2000 trial plus tools and templates on CD-ROM

Accurately estimate and track costs and resources

Proven tools to keep your project on schedule and within budget! Whether you're a seasoned programmer or new to the software industry, this book-and-software kit provides just what you need to keep your project on target. Combining friendly, real-world advice with state-of-the-art project-management software, this one-of-a-kind guide walks you through planning, development, testing, and implementation — and leads you step-by-step to success. all this on the bonus CD-ROM Trial versions of Microsoft Project 2000 (for plans, schedules, and Gantt charts), Soffront TRACK (for defect tracking), and Cost Xpert (for cost and resource estimation) Exclusive templates for Microsoft Project, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and more PC running windows 95 or later. See the CD Appendix for details and complete system requirements.

Discover how to: Put your project on the path to success Manage tasks, resources, and progress with Microsoft Project Stay on top of builds, bugs, and betas Implement Software Quality Assurance (SQA) testing Build customer-care programs

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Chapter 1: Understanding the Software Development Process In This Chapter *

Reviewing the phases of a software project *

Getting along with sales and marketing *

Relating to customer support As far as I know, you can't get a degree in software project management, at least not yet. The mantle of project manager usually falls to an experienced code writer/software developer. So chances are good that before you begin to manage software projects, you already have a firm grasp on the technical issues involved in the development and coding of software (if not, I explain enough of the central concepts throughout this book to help you fake that you at least have a clue). Software project management, however, requires more than an understanding of data models, user interface principles, and the difference between an elegant algorithm and a complete kludge. You also need major-project-management skills, and more to the point, software project-management skills. You may be the best darned code writer in your company, but at the same time, you may be completely lost when it comes to estimating and managing the myriad details and parallel processes involved in a software project. Don't worry! This book provides you with a first-aid kit of software project-management tools that enable you to successfully manage a software project right from the get-go! This chapter presents you with a high-level overview of the entire software-development process. You also get a glance at the activities that occur after the software project has been completed and the product goes out the door to the customers. So, grind some Java beans for a fresh mug and hop to it! The Seven Phases of Software Projects Join me in a trip to the dawn of cyber-time, to a time when the Y2K bug was first being coded into RAM-starved programs, when men still wore white lab coats in air-conditioned rooms and fed cards to dinosaur-like mainframe computers, and when Homebrew Club hackers burned the midnight ale in front of kit computers. ...

Edition details

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 076450634X
• ISBN 13: 9780764506345
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384