AntiPatterns in Project Management

by William J. Brown, Scott W. Thomas

Everything you need to anticipate and avoid the major pitfalls of project management-and ensure success! AntiPatterns in Project Management From the authors of the bestselling series on AntiPatterns come twenty new proven and practical solutions for successfully managing your software development project. in their familiar and entertaining style, the authors explore every phase of software development and identify the complex interaction of people, technology, and process issues that can cause a software development project to fail. With their pull-no-punches approach to project management, you'll learn how to balance these issues and ensure software development success. This book arms you
* 6 People AntiPatterns that provide proven solutions to the people problems that occur within software development projects
* 6 Technology AntiPatterns that help you deal with poor architectures and designs, and unstable technologies
* 6 Processes AntiPatterns that help you uncover and correct the bad processes that ultimately cause a project to fail
* The Standards AntiPattern that covers how to avoid the pitfalls and gain the benefits of adopting software development standards
* The Collision AntiPattern that helps you successfully identify and eliminate multiple AntiPatterns that plague software development projects across different life-cycle phases, involving the disciplines of project management, software configuration management, and software development

Genres: Management

496 pages, Hardcover

First published July 18, 2000

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Reviews

[Adrian Spinei · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nothing groundbreaking, really. Lots of common sense advice in this book structured like a sort of index of anti-patterns. Being written more than 10 years ago, doesn't take into account agile methodologies in software development, which come with an entirely new (and vast) set of anti-patterns to ... experience and ... enjoy.