- Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools
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- Preface
- I. Project Management Fundamentals
- 1. A Project Management Primer
- 2. Project Management Good Practices
- Laying the Foundation
- Planning the Project
- Practice #5: Write a Plan
- Practice #6: Decompose Tasks to Inch-Pebble Granularity
- Practice #7: Develop Planning Worksheets for Common Large Tasks
- Practice #8: Plan to Do Rework After a Quality Control Activity
- Practice #9: Manage Project Risks
- Practice #10: Plan Time for Process Improvement
- Practice #11: Respect the Learning Curve
- Estimating the Work
- Tracking Your Progress
- Learning for the Future
- Practice Activities
- 3. Just Too Much to Do
- II. Preparing for Success
- 4. Success Criteria Breed Success
- 5. Are We There Yet?
- 6. Know Your Enemy: Introduction to Risk Management
- 7. Chartering a Course for Success
- 8. Lessons Learned from Tool Adoption
- III. Living with Reality
- IV. Measuring What Happens
- 12. A Software Metrics Primer
- 13. Metrics Traps to Avoid
- Trap #1: Lack of Management Commitment
- Trap #2: Measuring Too Much, Too Soon
- Trap #3: Measuring Too Little, Too Late
- Trap #4: Measuring the Wrong Things
- Trap #5: Imprecise Metrics Definitions
- Trap #6: Using Metrics Data to Evaluate Individuals
- Trap #7: Using Metrics to Motivate, Rather Than to Understand
- Trap #8: Collecting Data That Isn’t Used
- Trap #9: Lack of Communication and Training
- Trap #10: Misinterpreting Metrics Data
- Practice Activities
- V. Learning Continuously
- References
- A. About the Author
- Index
- About the Author
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About the Author
Karl E. Wiegers is a leading speaker, author, and consultant on requirements engineering, project management, and process improvement. As Principal Consultant with Process Impact, he conducts training seminars for corporate and government clients worldwide. Karl has twice won the Software Development Productivity Award, which honors excellence in productivity-enhancing products and books.
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