Preface

If you’ve ever avoided checking your email for fear of finding another infestation of software bug reports from the test group, read this book. If you’ve ever wished you could identify problems with the development process before they turn into schedule disasters, this book will help you do that. If you’re a software project manager in a low-maturity organization where you have no Software Engineering Process Group and no Project Management Office (PMO), or you’re trying to use your influence as a project manager to drive some department-wide process improvement, read on.

Software Project Management: Measures for Improving Performance is about using software measures to identify and mitigate the software development project risks that are typically associated with development process inefficiencies and product quality problems. This is not a tutorial in statistical process control, nor is it a handbook for PMOs setting up portfolio reporting and control procedures. The focus here is on analyzing and overcoming day-to-day crises that keep software project managers busy in between project status reporting periods.