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Eliminating Waste in Software Project Management Using Critical Chain Project Management

Critical Chain Project Management provides measurable benefits of between 10%-50% reduction in the overall cycle time of a project, without impacting project costs. It also shows significant benefits in providing the right controls to effectively manage projects, and allowing actions to be expedited as and when they occur in a...

Tags: Software, Project, Software Project Management, Software Project, Change Management, Project Management, Benefits, Tools & Techniques, Management, It Operations, It service Management, Human Resources

White papers 2009-03-01

Software Project Management 1 (Windows)

For a project to be successful it has to be planned and managed so that the project objectives are achieved. A comprehensive plan ensures adequate planning for all the aspects that are necessary for project success. A plan is used to execute the project and to monitor and control it....

Tags: Project, Software Project Management, Software Project, Edistalearning, Project Management, Microsoft Windows, It Operations, It service Management, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-07-16

New Solution Improves Software Project Management, Productivity, and Quality

Facing multiple simultaneous projects, the nine-member software development group within the Washington State Department of Community, Trade, and Economic Development CTED found it difficult to accurately assess project status, estimate new efforts, and ensure sufficient software quality. The group adopted Microsoft Visual Studio Team System to help it overcome all...

Tags: Software, Software Project Management, Software Project, Microsoft Corp., Software Quality, Tools & Techniques, Project Management, Management, It Operations, It service Management

Case studies 2007-04-01

Transform your software development and software project management processes by adopting agile methods

It is not too extreme a statement to say that when it comes to software development and software project management in general, agile changes everything. In this sample chapter from Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises, examine new paradigms that real teams are using to...

Tags: Software, Software Project Management, Software Project, Addison-Wesley, Project Management, Software Development, Tools & Techniques, It Operations, It service Management, Software/Web Development, Management

Book chapters 2007-03-27

Set your software development project on the road to success with these practical tools and strategies

Ever wonder why many software projects run into trouble, and many never ship at all—while others run like well-oiled machines? Learn how to set your software development project on the road to success in this sample chapter from Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects. Discover a...

Tags: Software, Strategy, Software Development, Software Project Management, Software Project, Tool, Pragmatic Bookshelf, Tools & Techniques, Project Management, Management, It Operations, It service Management

Book chapters 2006-10-25

Improve productivity, reduce costs, and deliver more effective solutions by practicing iterative software project management

Iterative processes have gained widespread acceptance because they help software developers reduce risk and cost, manage change, improve productivity, and deliver more effective, timely solutions. But conventional project management techniques don't work well in iterative projects, and newer iterative management techniques have, thus far, been poorly documented. Learn how to...

Tags: Software, Technique, Software Project Management, Software Project, Addison-Wesley, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Software Development, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Software/Web Development

Book chapters 2006-09-27

Prompter: A Decision Support Tool for Software Project Management

This paper describes work undertaken within the context of the P3 Project and Process Prompter Project which aims to develop the Prompter tool, a "decision-support tool to assist in the planning and managing of a software project". Prompter will have the ability to help software project managers to assimilate best...

Tags: Software, Software Project Management, Software Project, Decision Support, Project Management, It Operations, It service Management

White papers 2005-10-06

Software Project Management Plan for 'Telemetry Display and Archival on Linux Platform'

The project presented in this paper evaluates the process of Altitude and Orbit Control Electronics package. It involves communication between satellite and earth stations through the Telemetry subsystem in the satellite. Status of the spacecraft is available in the telemetry buffer. Thus the authors will need to retrieve the status...

Tags: St. Louis, Linux, Software Project Management, Software Project, Telemetry, Satellite, RPC, Network Technology, UNIX, Operating Systems, Networking, Software

White papers 2005-04-29

Accommodating Soft Skills in Software Project Management

This paper summarizes the soft skills that can possibly improve the success rate of software projects. These projects, if not managed properly can lead to escalation of budget and time schedules beyond expectations. Deterioration of quality may be inevitable while deploying efforts to deal with cost overrun and schedule extension....

Tags: Software, Software Project Management, Software Project, Soft Skill, University Of South Africa, Training And Certification

White papers 2005-04-16

Additional Resources

Gantt Chart for Workgroup 2.4 (Windows)

The Gantt Chart for Workgroup is a modern and extremely easy-in-use project plan system with the additional capability to share data over the network. This system allows you to specify complex tasks sequences - a task or multiple tasks can be required to be completed before other tasks can be...

Tags: Gantt Chart, Microsoft Windows, OrgBusiness Software

Software downloads 2009-11-06

Splendid City Sports Scheduler 6.7.3 (Mac)

Splendid City Team Sports Scheduler, and Sports Scheduling Software System is useful for people who organize team sports or game events. Use it to manage and publish sports schedules of any size and complexity. Automatically create high quality double or single elimination tournament brackets, round-robin league schedules, swiss round tournaments,...

Tags: Web, Team, Apple Macintosh, City Sports Inc., Web Site, Niagara Software, User Experience, Time Management, Web Site Development, Team Management, Games, Web Technology, Channel Management, Productivity, Internet, Management, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-31

Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server

What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Virtual Server, Server, Strategy, Management, virtualization, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-29

News to know: L.A. goes Google; AMD-Galleon; Cisco-ScanSafe; Ubuntu; Amazon RDS

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Larry Dignan: WSJ: AMD's former CEO was a Galleon tipster Sam Diaz: Cisco continues its buying spree with...

Tags: Tom Foremski, Ubuntu, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, ScanSafe, Mary Jo Foley, Amazon.com Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Internet, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-28

RationalPlan Multi Project 3.15.6 (Windows)

RationalPlan Multi Project by Stand By Soft is a powerful project management software designed to assist project managers in developing plans, allocating resources, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workload. If you are working in the area of construction, engineering, services&consulting, business, software development or even working on a simple...

Tags: Project, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Project Management, Software Development, Strategy, Management, It Operations, It service Management, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-10-27

RationalPlan Project Viewer 3.15.6 (Windows)

RationalPlan Project Viewer by Stand By Soft is a free project management software viewer, the perfect solution for anyone from project stakeholders to team workers to view your projects in detail. Usually project managers plan and control the projects from start to end and make the necessary changes. However, there...

Tags: Stakeholder, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Project Management, Strategy, Management, It Operations, It service Management

Software downloads 2009-10-27

RationalPlan Single Project 3.15.6 (Windows)

RationalPlan is a powerful project management software designed to assist project managers in developing plans, allocating resources, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workload. Whether your application is in the area of construction, engineering, services.

Tags: Microsoft Windows, RationalPlan, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management

Software downloads 2009-10-27

RationalPlan 3.15.6 (Mac)

RationalPlan Single Project by Stand By Soft is a powerful project management software designed to assist project managers in developing plans, allocating resources, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workload. You can use RationalPlan in the area of construction, engineering, services

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management

Software downloads 2009-10-27

Can open source software stop IT failure?

I'm not so sure #1 is valid#1 is a variation of "many eyes make all bugs shallow"Does it help? Yes. But it also makes the implicit assumption that everyone that can view the code is competent to do so. So it goes back to resource allocation being an issue, if...

Tags: Strategy, OPEN SOURCE, information technology, IT Failure, F/OSS, software, open-source software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Learning from the weak signals of failure

Sometimes a refusal to listen . . .Sometimes it's a refusal of top level management to listen to lower level employees as well. NASA was notorious for having unsatisfied employees who knew key facts about issues, but ignored them, even if the employee was proactive about trying to contact somebody...

Tags: Team management, weak signal

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

So about this SIF thing

Difficulties in implementationLong before I retired from being a computer coordinator for our district, SIF was in the news.The reality for my district was changing Student Information Management software three times in 10 years (and a fourth since '06 when I retired). In each case, the transfer of data from...

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, SIF

Discussion threads 2009-10-23