| The subject of this book is the skills that are needed for managing software
projects in the Internet era, when projects evolve rapidly, requirements change
often, and new methodologies, techniques, and tools for management emerge.
In this book, I have tried to transfer all my experience and the lessons learned
about the different topics that are discussed — how to deal with people; how
to manage a group; and how to develop, manage, and maintain a software
project (Section I of the book).
While reading the book, consider that the experiences described and the methodologies
and techniques discussed are based mainly on a particular target
business environment that is described in Section II of the book and that is
more and more common in the Internet era — small companies or small teams
in large companies that deal with small to medium projects that adopt leading
edge technologies and therefore are subject to vast changes during their lifetime.
I have focused on describing the Agile methodologies for software development
and management, since I think that they are the most suitable approach
when one is faced with a rapidly changing IT project. Obviously, I also have
introduced classical methodologies, since one must know enough of all the
methodologies in order to select the most suitable one.
Last, but not least, I also have presented the Agile methodology that I have
developed (ADPD), which also can be employed suitably in all environments
that classically are against the Agile approach, since it can be stated that ADPD
is compliant to CMM-SW Level 3 and, during its adoption, software measurement
and UML can be adopted profitably without abandoning the Agile
approach.
I hope that you enjoy the reading of this book. |
