Patricia Ensworth
ISBN: 0-471-41011-X
Paper
288 pages
August 2001

The goal of a project manager is to complete a software project on time, within budget, and to the customer's specifications. A large percentage of these projects fail to meet these goals. One of the reasons that projects fail is because the project manager lacks the necessary skills required to manage a successful software development effort. Many times, the manager is not a trained project manager at all, but an accidental project manager--a programmer or developer who finds him- or herself managing a project. In order for the software project to succeed, the accidental project manager must get up to speed quickly.