A Down-To-Earth Guide To SDLC Project Management

This book, "A Down-To-Earth Guide To SDLC Project Management" aims to provide you with the knowledge, understanding, and techniques required for guiding that small to medium size System / Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) project to a successful conclusion. This book is based on several years of SDLC project management experience and on the Project Management Body Of Knowledge (PMBOK) with a blending of other project methodologies (such as Agile). That is, this book contains a merging of concepts, principles, and practical experiences from the various industrial backgrounds of those persons who contributed to this book’s creation. Additionally, this book has been targeted at the practical application of project management theory to real world situations and circumstances where the realities of commercial necessities have to be taken into consideration.This book has been laid out specifically for easy reading (and hopefully you will find it entertaining while educating), contains over 100 explanatory diagrams, in excess of 100 cartoons to emphasize the key points, includes real-world example cases, has candid comments from project managers & program managers.DISCLAIMER... Any caricatures to persons you know is purely coincidental, any similarities to your past projects is “experience”, any uncanny similarity to your current project is DEJA VU.