Why another book on software project management?. For some time, the fields of project management, computer science, and software development have been growing rapidly and concurrently. Effective support for the enterprise demands the merging of these efforts into a coordinated discipline, one that incorporates best practices from both systems development and project management life cycles
Effective Software Project Management; About the Author; Credits; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Part One: The Evolving State of ESPM; Part Two: Linear ESPM; Part Three: Incremental ESPM; Part Four: Iterative ESPM; Part Five: Adaptive ESPM; Part Six: Extreme ESPM; Part Seven: In Summary; Appendix A: What's on the Web Site?; Appendix B: Bibliography; Appendix C: The Project Overview Statement; Appendix D: Requirements Gathering; Appendix E: The Work Breakdown Structure; Appendix F: Estimation; Appendix G: The Project Network Diagram; Appendix H: The Resource Schedule