Product Description: To succeed in the software industry, managers need to cultivate a reliable development process. By measuring what teams have achieved on previous projects, managers can more accurately set goals, make bids, and ensure the successful completion of new projects...read more

Product Description: This book presents the value information you need for ensuring the effective management of projects, the attainment of reliable products, and the continuing improvement of the software process. With this book, the software development executive will be able to overcome the chaos associated with the lack of a managed, defined, planned, and disciplined process for developing software...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Aimed primarily at executives with no particular background in software. Deals with software development both at the project-control level and the process-investment level. Paper. DLC: Computer software - Development - Management.

Product Description: This book helps you accurately measure the completion time frames for small-to-medium software development projects, with practical techniques for performing software estimates, productivity measurements and quality forecasts. It forms a common underlying methodology, helping you plan the project, create a budget, and set schedules and quality standards...read more