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by Walker Royce (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Addison Wesley (29 Oct 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0201309580
  • ISBN-13: 978-0201309584
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 18.5 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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For a cutting-edge take on how to manage today's object-oriented, iterative software development processes, take a look at Walker Royce's Software Project Management. This readable, comprehensive guide shows how well-managed software teams can produce better, more profitable software in less time.

The book begins by outlining the "traditional" waterfall approach to software development. The author looks at what changes for management when it comes to today's iterative software processes. Written with an eye toward management (with plenty of tables and figures for project estimation and planning), the author takes you through common pitfalls of managing software.

Besides reviewing older studies and metrics, the author offers his own 10 principles to managing software, along with hints for all facets of development, from initial inception to construction and deployment of software. The author provides detailed project milestones and other deliverables to help you manage software better, including a breakdown of tasks for your team that will help maximize your efficiency.

After a look forward at what better software management means for return on investment (ROI), the author presents several very useful appendices, which include software metrics (like COCOMO), as well as a description of the CCPDS-R missile command system (which used many of the author's management principles). Overall, this groundbreaking title will be useful to any software manager or project leader seeking to get control of software costs and improve team efficiency. --Richard Dragan

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This book provides a clear and provocative discussion of the economics, metrics, and management strategies necessary to plan and execute a software project successfully. Royce discusses, with refreshing candor, some of the fads, follies, and excesses of the software industry, clearly differentiating proven techniques and obsolete methods. Paired with this insightful examination are compelling arguments for new management approaches that are sure to stimulate debate. The relative impacts of these new techniques are quantified through simple economic analyses, common sense, and anecdotal evidence. The resulting framework strikes a pragmatic balance between theory and practice that can be readily applied in today's challenging development environment. An extensive case study analysis of a large-scale, million-line project deployed successfully on schedule and under budget using these methods further illustrates their application.



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4.0 out of 5 stars Hard going, a weighty tome, not a jumpstart for RUP, 16 May 1999
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Just a note of warning. This book is not an introductory work and it presupposes a fair bit of knowledge on the part of the reader. It may well reflect lots of practical experience, but it reads like an academic text to me. It will require a lot of committed time to get value out of this book. It is not for a project manager who is an a hurry to get started on a project. Nor is it a guide for project managers who are about to work with the RUP or Objectory processes.

Nonetheless I don't dispute that it is an excellent work and full of wisdom.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Impractical and over-complicated but with useful insights, 10 Oct 2001
This is not a good practical introduction to software project management. It uses confusing language and regularly uses terms before defining them in chapters much later on, by which time I was totally confused and had wasted a lot of time and effort trying to figure out what was meant.

This reads like a book by that college professor whom no one ever understood. It is undoubtedly well researched and contains many valuable insights. Unfortunately they have been obfuscated with unnecessarily complicated language and academia-speak. A lot of effort is required to get the most out of the book. A wasted opportunity! A book full of really useful information, clouded by its delivery. Some of the sentences look like strings of randomly assembled manager speak -- meaningless -- it's only after careful analysis that each sentence can be understood, and by then the flow and context have been lost.

If you're thinking -- this guy must be thick, he didn't get it -- then be warned, I'm no slouch. Degree from Oxford, eight years experience developing and managing software projects. This book was understandable, but only just.

I suggest buying Steve McConnell's "Software Project Survival Guide". Along with "Code Complete" and "Rapid Development" these will give you more readily understandable info than "Software Project Management" will.

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4.0 out of 5 stars good book on a subject which is not easy to address, 19 Jan 2004
The author provides valuable insight into what is the art and science of successful project management. The key word introduced by Mr. Royce is "balance". Balance between formal techniches and common sense, balance between technology and people, etc.

Unfortunately, software project management still remains an immature subject: there is no general agreement among the gurus about what are the best metrics, and even the recommendations remain subjective. The last chapters give valuable advice on how the standard metrics could be complemented with new approaches in the context of managing ever challenging software environments. If the concepts had been treated with less repetitions the book would have been worth 5 stars.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A must have.
This is one of the top books on software project management. One of the best on the suject.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding book in a very difficult area. Bravo!
Software projects are notoriously difficult to manage and execute, to such a degree that software project management is almost an oxymoron. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for all software professionals
There are several books on Software Engineering, Software project Management, Software Development, Development Economics and so on. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Updated and Forward-looking View of SW Project Management
Walker's book is somewhat irreverent, but wholly pragmatic. He is not afraid to gore some of the sacred cows of software project management in search of updated principles. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Practical and insightful with quantitative assessments
It was quite refreshing to read Walker's book and find it peppered with "pragmatic sections". Walker not only provides the theory, but assembles very strong quantitative... Read more
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