On Time within Budget or Social Work Experience

On Time, Within Budget: Software Project Management Practices and Techniques

Author: E M M Bennatan

A developer's survival guide packed with real-life case

studies, tips, techniques, and best practices for completing software projects on time and within budget

Whether you work at a large or small company, this book will provide you with expert, down-in-the-trenches tips, techniques, and strategies to deliver a software project in a cost-effective and timely way. Real-life case studies let you learn from the mistakes as well as the successes of others. Author E. M. Bennatan zeroes in on proven methods for avoiding bottlenecks and overruns at every step in the software development cycle--from cost estimating to product delivery.

The Third Edition of this bestselling guide routes you directly to what you need to know about:
* Managing both small and large projects in a distributed environment
* Common development problems and how to avoid them
* Preparing estimates and proposals and bidding for contracts
* Managing teams for maximum quality and productivity
* Proven scheduling and project development planning techniques

New to this edition:
* How best to ensure an effective relationship with customers
* Risk management and disaster prevention
* The pros and cons of acquiring custom software from outside suppliers
* Managing multinational projects
* How to save time by reusing software components

Booknews

With updated material on organizational excellence, software standards, and legal and international perspectives, a veteran software design manager for Motorola overviews software project management, the theory of risk analysis, and methods (with pointed reference to the title ) for avoiding glitches and overruns at every step in the software development cycle<-->from contract development to project scheduling. Includes the prefaces to the first and second iterations (dates not specified), case studies, chapter-end exercises, summary tables, and a better- than-average bibliography for such a text. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface to the First Edition
	Preface to the Second Edition
	Acknowledgments
	Trademarks
1	Introduction to Software Project Management	1
2	Software Development Problems	13
3	Software Development Under Contract	25
4	The Software Development Cycle	45
5	Principles of Managing Software Engineers	68
6	How to Handle Large Projects: Divide and Conquer	83
7	Software Project Management in a Client/Server Environment	100
8	Project Support Functions	117
9	Software Development Standards	139
10	Project Scheduling	169
11	The Preparation of Estimates: Methods and Techniques	193
	References	227
	Further reading	230
	Index	231

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Social Work Experience: An Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare

Author: Mary Ann Suppes

Created to introduce students to the field of social work and its relationship to social welfare policy, The Social Work Experience gives readers both an historical and practical overview of the profession. In each chapter, the authors continue to integrate policy coverage with social work practice, values and ethics, and social justice issues. The relationship between policy and practice is carefully examined in the context of nine major fields of social work, and in discussions of the challenges faced by today's practitioners. Comprehensive coverage is delivered in the highly readable style readers have come to expect of this author team, with engaging case studies as chapter openers, exhibit boxes, debate boxes, and research activity sections designed to draw readers into the text.