The practical handbook of software project management by practitioners, for practitioners! Endorsed by the Software Quality Institute (SQI), teaching skills you can use right now to drive maximum business value in any project-large or small. Softcover.

Quality Software Project Management was written by and for software practitioners who need a hands-on guide to the non-deterministic but leading-edge task of managing software development projects. The book takes its overall outline from the successful Software Project Management (SWPM) certification program at The University of Texas at Austin's Software Quality Institute, a division of the College of Engineering's Center for Lifelong Engineering Education (CLEE).

Software project managers and their development teams play a critical role in the success of modern businesses, be they high-tech or otherwise. These professionals and their knowledge of sound management practices and thorough software development, enhancement, and maintenance processes, can determine organizational success or failure.

The trend toward increased software quality is responsible for the promulgation of new standards to certify that development processes meet certain benchmarks. Certifications to standards are becoming more common as buyers demand tighter quality controls. Software project managers must be keenly aware of standards such as those published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), as well as continually evolving practices, guided in part by the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM), and by a new emphasis on the management of small projects.

It is in recognition of these trends that UT's College of Engineering and its Software Quality Institute (SQI) created the SWPM certificate program in 1993. Since then, hundreds of software project managers have graduated from the program. Those managers are currently applying "best practices" to overcome the limitations of a tight labor force and to meet the rapidly changing needs of their customers and organizations in today's highly competitive marketplace. This book is a consolidation of teachings from that certification program as it has evolved over the years.