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    How to Keep Your Boss from Sinking Your Project
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    How to Keep Your Boss from Sinking Your Project
    Ebook21 pages33 minutes

    How to Keep Your Boss from Sinking Your Project

    By Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene

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    About this ebook

    Like it or not, your project needs management. Yet few good software projects can survive bad management. If you're a programmer on a high-visibility project, this PDF offers five principle guidelines for managing upward that will help you help your boss make the right decisions about setting project expectations, working with users and stakeholders, putting the project on the right track, and keeping it there.

    Even if you have the best boss in the world, chances are he or she does not come from an IT or software engineering background, and may lack the time or technical focus to manage your project well. And if your boss sinks your project, you'll share the blame-even if you did everything right. The guidance in this document can help you understand what problems cause projects to fail and how to fix them, and what you can do to keep your software project from running into trouble.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherO'Reilly Media, Inc.
    Release dateJun 14, 2006
    ISBN9780596528027
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    How to Keep Your Boss from Sinking Your Project
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    Andrew Stellman

    Andrew Stellman is a developer, architect, speaker, agile coach, project manager, and expert in building better software. Andrew is an author and international speaker, with top-selling books in software development and project management, and world-recognized expert in transforming and improving software organizations, teams, and code. He has architected and built large-scale software systems, managed large international software teams, and consulted for companies, schools, and corporations, including Microsoft, the National Bureau of Economic Research, Bank of America, Notre Dame, and MIT. He's had the privilege of working with some pretty amazing programmers during that time, and likes to think that he's learned a few things from them.

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