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This essential textbook presents an overview of software project management in an ethical and responsible software engineering environment. The book covers the essentials of software project management, and highlights the importance of ethics and professional responsibility as part of the skill set of the modern project manager.
Topics and features:
- Presents a solid overview of software project management
- Discusses professional and ethical responsibilities of project managers
- Presents an overview of ethical software engineering
- Reviews project planning and scheduling, project monitoring and control, risk management and project closure
- Discusses quality management of software projects
- Presents an overview of legal and ethical aspects of outsourcing
- Discusses project management for both traditional and Agile projects
- Reviews a selection of tools & metrics to support project management
- Discusses best practice (Prince 2, PMP and CMMI) to improve project management
- Includes key learning topics, summaries, and review questions in each chapter, together with a useful glossary
This practical and easy-to-follow textbook/reference is ideal for computer science students seeking to understand software project management. The text also serves as a self-study primer for software engineers, project managers and software managers.
Dr. Gerard O'Regan is an international lecturer in Maths/Computing with research interests in software quality, software process improvement, mathematical approaches to software quality, and the history of computing. He is the author of several books with Springer, including
Concise Guide to Software Engineering,
Ethical and Legal Aspects of Computing, and
A Brief History of Computing.
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Dr. Gerard O'Regan is an international lecturer in Maths/Computing with research interests in software quality, software process improvement, mathematical approaches to software quality, and the history of computing. He is the author of several books with Springer, including Concise Guide to Software Engineering, Ethical and Legal Aspects of Computing, and A Brief History of Computing.
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This essential textbook presents an overview of software project management in an ethical and responsible software engineering environment. The book covers the essentials of software project management, and highlights the importance of ethics and professional responsibility as part of the skill set of the modern project manager.
Topics and features:
- Presents a solid overview of software project management
- Discusses professional and ethical responsibilities of project managers
- Presents an overview of ethical software engineering
- Reviews project planning and scheduling, project monitoring and control, risk management and project closure
- Discusses quality management of software projects
- Presents an overview of legal and ethical aspects of outsourcing
- Discusses project management for both traditional and Agile projects
- Reviews a selection of tools & metrics to support project management
- Discusses best practice (Prince 2, PMP and CMMI) to improve project management
- Includes key learning topics, summaries, and review questions in each chapter, together with a useful glossary
This practical and easy-to-follow textbook/reference is ideal for computer science students seeking to understand software project management. The text also serves as a self-study primer for software engineers, project managers and software managers.
Dr. Gerard O’Regan is an international lecturer in Maths/Computing with research interests in software quality, software process improvement, mathematical approaches to software quality, and the history of computing. He is the author of several books with Springer, including
Concise Guide to Software Engineering ,
Ethical and Legal Aspects of Computing , and
A Brief History of Computing.
