On Time, Within Budget: Software Project Management Practices and Techniques

A project manager's survival guide—Tells you everything you need to know to develop software on time, within budget, and to your clients' complete satisfaction

For every exhausted project manager, here is something that's guaranteed to save you many a sleepless night. It's a unique survival guide packed with expert advice, guidelines, and tips and tricks that make it easier than ever to develop software on schedule, within budget, and to your clients' total satisfaction.

Short on theory and long on valuable nuts-and-bolts information, On Time, Within Budget schools you in proven techniques for successfully managing every aspect of the software development cycle, from cost estimate to product delivery. Organized for quick access, it routes you directly to what you need to know about:

• Managing projects in a client/server environment
• CASE tools
• The most common development problems and how to avoid them
• Preparing estimates and proposals and bidding for contracts
• Managing teams for maximum quality and productivity
• Managing large projects—including new techniques for subdividing them into smaller, more manageable pieces
• Working with DOD 2167, IEEE, ISO 9000, British, European, and other commonly used software development standards
• Scheduling and the project development plan—covers Gantt and PERT charts, the work breakdown structure (WBS), and other proven scheduling and planning techniques

If you are struggling to produce a client/server system on schedule, without breaking the bank, this book is definitely for you.

Organized for quick and easy access, this indispensable survival guide is packed with project management methods, providing a systematic approach to software development from initial planning to the final product. Contains in-depth information on avoiding numerous common software development problems, managing large software projects, newly updated IEEE standards, an overview of ISO standards and more.