Book on Project Management

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There was a book discussed with the author on Morning Ireland this morning about Project Management. (I think it was on the business section).

Anyone know the name of the book
 
See this RTÉ link. For what it's worth two other standard tomes on this issue are (were?) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1556154844/104-2051128-3116710?v=glance (Code Complete) and http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=br_ss_hs/104-2051128-3116710?platform=gurupa&url=index%3Dstripbooks%3Arelevance-above%26dispatch%3Dsearch%26results-process%3Dbin&field-keywords=mythical+man+month&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go (The Mythical Man Month). Naturally, as a s/w developer of almost 20 years, I have never read any of them! :eek:
 
Certainly haven't heard of any of those either, and I've just gone through the PMP certification. One quote from the book RTE highlighted that would worry me is "She says a company should always agree a fixed time and fixed price basis for a project, this will share the risk and forces a very strict change management culture."

Standard triple constraint in project management involves time, cost, & quality. Fix the first two and guess what's going to suffer?
Leo
 
Those books are specifically about the management and oversight of software development projects and not the wider issue of IT development, integration, deployment etc. projects as far as I remember just in case that's relevant?
 
Leo said:
Certainly haven't heard of any of those either, and I've just gone through the PMP certification. One quote from the book RTE highlighted that would worry me is "She says a company should always agree a fixed time and fixed price basis for a project, this will share the risk and forces a very strict change management culture."

Standard triple constraint in project management involves time, cost, & quality. Fix the first two and guess what's going to suffer?
Leo
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They did sound over-simplistic on the interview this morning - Do you think any supplier with half a brain would sign up for a fixed price/time contract for a health service payroll system, for example?
 
Heres a link to that book

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Other books on the topics of managing software development would be

Joel on Software
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590593898/ref%3Dnosim/joelonsoftware/103-1540857-2790251

Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams (I highly recommend this one)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0932633439/qid=1128941893/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-1540857-2790251?v=glance&s=books

And probably tremendously appropriate for the recent PPARS fiasco (not uncommon with SAP)
Deathmarch
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/013143635X/ref=pd_bbs_null_1/103-1540857-2790251?v=glance&s=books
 
An excellent book, published in Ireland is "The Silver bullet" by Fergus O'Connell,
His website is www.eptint.com

It is focussed on SW, but relevant to all areas.
 
ClubMan said:
See this RTÉ link. For what it's worth two other standard tomes on this issue are (were?) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1556154844/104-2051128-3116710?v=glance (Code Complete) and http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=br_ss_hs/104-2051128-3116710?platform=gurupa&url=index%3Dstripbooks%3Arelevance-above%26dispatch%3Dsearch%26results-process%3Dbin&field-keywords=mythical+man+month&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go (The Mythical Man Month). Naturally, as a s/w developer of almost 20 years, I have never read any of them! :eek:
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Are you working with the HSE and Deloitte and Touche???
 
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