The Microwave Way to Software Project Management - Tapa blanda

De Baar, Bas

 
9780595227112: The Microwave Way to Software Project Management
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ISBN 10: 0595227112 ISBN 13: 9780595227112
Editorial: iUniverse, 2002

Sinopsis

The Microwave Way to Software Project Management takes you on a fast, entertaining and essential tour through the jungle software project managers can and will walk in to. For a lot of readers one conclusion still comes as a big surprise: doing projects is a peoples business. It's all about keeping everyone involved in the project happy by supporting their stakes. The trouble with stakes is, no one tells you what they are. You have to guess, negotiate, anticipate and manipulate to get passed the requirements directly through the fears and wishes of people. Software project management is more about psychology than technology.This book presents how in the real world of enterprises the 'traditional' techniques of project management, like Gantt-charting, can be used as communications techniques to keep some persons happy. The Microwave Way is not about knowing you have a deadline, but about how to move it. Naming a date is easy, telling you cannot make it, is the real job.

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Reseña del editor

The Microwave Way to Software Project Management takes you on a fast, entertaining and essential tour through the jungle software project managers can and will walk in to. For a lot of readers one conclusion still comes as a big surprise: doing projects is a peoples business. It's all about keeping everyone involved in the project happy by supporting their stakes. The trouble with stakes is, no one tells you what they are. You have to guess, negotiate, anticipate and manipulate to get passed the requirements directly through the fears and wishes of people. Software project management is more about psychology than technology.This book presents how in the real world of enterprises the 'traditional' techniques of project management, like Gantt-charting, can be used as communications techniques to keep some persons happy. The Microwave Way is not about knowing you have a deadline, but about how to move it. Naming a date is easy, telling you cannot make it, is the real job.

Biografía del autor

Bas de Baar works as a project manager within the publishing industry. He holds a degree in Business Informatics and lives currently with his wife in Zandvoort, The Netherlands.

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Editorial
iUniverse
Año de publicación
2002
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0595227112
ISBN 13 
9780595227112
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
124
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