How to Keep Your Boss from Sinking Your Project
1st Edition
Published on 14. June 2006
24 pages
978-0-596-52802-7 (ISBN)
Description
Like it or not, your project needs management. Yet few good software projects can survive bad management. If you're a programmer on a high-visibility project, this PDF offers five principle guidelines for managing upward that will help you help your boss make the right decisions about setting project expectations, working with users and stakeholders, putting the project on the right track, and keeping it there.Even if you have the best boss in the world, chances are he or she does not come from an IT or software engineering background, and may lack the time or technical focus to manage your project well. And if your boss sinks your project, you'll share the blame-even if you did everything right. The guidance in this document can help you understand what problems cause projects to fail and how to fix them, and what you can do to keep your software project from running into trouble.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
Product notice
Windows
File size
0,83 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-596-52802-7 (9780596528027)
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Content
- How to Keep Your Boss from Sinking Your Project
- How to Keep Your Boss from Sinking Your
- Why Do Projects Fail?
- Spot Project Problems Early
- Set Expectations Early and Keep Them Up to Date
- Understand the Vision of the Project
- Make Sure the Vision Is Clearly Stated
- Use Estimation to Understand the Scope and Scale of the Project
- Make an Informed Selection of a Software Process
- Should the Team "Go Agile"?
- Keep Your Manager Involved with the Project
- Hold Periodic Schedule Walkthroughs
- Insist on Transparency
- Make Intelligent Course Corrections
- Don't Abandon the Process.
- .Unless the Process Is the Problem
- Don't Compromise on Quality
- Alter Your Tactics, but Stay True to Your Strategy
- About the Authors
- Copyright
