Guide to Software Project Management

von Gerard O'Regan

293 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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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.

 

• Reihe: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
• ISBN: 9783031805776
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.04.2025
• Genre: Informatik, EDV/Informatik
• Verlag: Springer International Publishing