Software project management : A process-driven approach / Ahmed, Ashfaque

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to software project management -- Project initiation management -- Software project effort and cost estimation -- Risk management -- Configuration management -- Project planning -- Project monitoring and control -- Project closure -- Introduction to software life-cycle management -- Software requirement management -- Software design management -- Software construction -- Software testing -- Product release and maintenance -- Process standards introduction -- Software process standards and process improvement -- Process selection -- Introduction to people management -- Team management -- Customer management -- Supplier management -- Software project management tools introduction -- Project management and software life-cycle tools -- Software project templates -- Future tools and techniques.

When I was searching for good books on software project management, I found many interesting ones that had been written by experts in this field. These books contained valuable information on many topics covering software project management and related subjects. I was therefore surprised when a friend of mine who is a professor at a renowned Indian university told me that his students find it difficult to get good books on this subject. On going through the syllabus, though, I realized that none of the books available in the market covered more than 50% of the syllabus. My friend agreed that this was the case and that is why his students had to refer to several books to cover their syllabus. Based on my friend's suggestion, I decided to write a textbook that would cover the entire syllabus of software project management. This book is the result of that effort.