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SoftTest/SoftMet

Software Testing Fundamentals

Marnie L. Hutcheson

First book publication of the two critically acclaimed and widely used testing methodologies developed by the author, known as MITs and S-curves, and more methods and metrics not previously available to the public.

Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach, Revised

Norman E. Fenton, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger

The Second Edition of SOFTWARE METRICS provides an up-to-date, coherent, and rigorous framework for controlling, managing, and predicting software development processes.

SpEd/SuccITProjDel

Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Project 2003 (Special Edition Using)

Tim Pyron

This book provides readers with everything they need to make the most of Project 2003.  Business professionals can gain access into their portfolio of projects, and collaborate on the documents, issues and risks associated with those projects.          

 

Successful IT Project Delivery: Learning the Lessons of Project Failure

David Yardley, Addison Wesley, 368 pages

"Using international case histories of failed IT projects, the author examines causes for underachieving and provides the reader with lessons from project failure." 

July/August 2003 IT Professional, page 61

StPMTKit

Strategic Project Management: Tools and Techniques for Planning, Decision-Making and, Implementation

Michael J. Termini

This book examines and documents methods for developing and employing critical project management skills. The emphasis is on providing both novice and seasoned project managers with insight into real-world, practical applications.

StratPO

The Strategic Project Office

J. Kent Crawford

Describes the initiation, design, execution, and control of a strategic project office. Emphasizes cost management, cultural change, risk assessment, resource allocation, and skills tracking to increase project value, organizational efficiency, and productivity.

Tales from the Project Trade

Paul Snare

A collection of stories illustrating the lessons learned by a professional capital project manager over a 40 year carrer. The lessons are presented in a conversational style; non-techinical, and focuses upon behavior, inter-personal style and the softer side of project failures and successes.

TeachProj24hrs/TeamBldg

Teach Yourself Microsoft Project 2000 in 24 hours

Tim Pyron, SAMS, 566 paperback, ISBN 0-672-31814-8

Team Building: A Structured Learning Approach

Peter Mears and Frank Voehl, St. Lucie Press, 1997, paper back 178 pages,  ISBN 1-884015-15-8j

TechIssues

Technical Issues (Managing Multimedia: Project Management for Web and Convergent Media, Third Edition, Book 2)

Elaine England, Andy Finney

Theory/ToDo

Theory of Constraints

Eliyahu Goldratt, 160 pages paperback, ISBN 0-88427-166-8

To Do Doing Done: A Creative Approach to Managing Projects and Effectively Finishing What Matters

G. Lynne Snead and Joyce Wycoff, Simon and Shuster, 255 pages paperback, 1997, ISBN 0-684-81887-6

TomHR

Tomorrow's HR Management

Dave Ulrich (Editor), Michael R. Losey (Editor), Gerry Lake (Editor)

In this remarkably visionary volume, 48 of the most perceptive and imaginative HR executives, consultants, and scholars offer their views on the future of the field and prescribe courses of action that will help CEOs and HR managers shape that future.

True Professionalism: The Courage to Care About Your People, Your Clients, and Your Career

David H. Maister

David Maister, the world's premier consultant to professional service firms, vigorously challenges professionals to examine this essential, yet under-addressed question: What is true professionalism?

ToyWay

The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer

Jeffrey Liker

The Toyota Way reveals the management principles behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliability.

TotalProjCtrl/UseProj2000

Total Project Control

Stephen A. Devaux, John Wiley and Sons, first edition 1999,

Using Microsoft Project 2000

Tim Pyron, Que books,

ValBaseMet

Value-Based Metrics for Improving Results: An Enterprise Project Management Toolkit

Mel Schnapper, Steven Rollins

VisPM/Win

Visualizing Project Management: A Model for Business and Technical Success

Kevin Forsberg, Hal Mooz, Howard Cotterman, second edition (2000), John Wiley and Sons, hard cover 

Visualizing Project Management draws on the combined wisdom of some of the best and most experienced project managers in the business. 

Winning in Business With Enterprise Project Management

Paul Dinsmore, 1999, American Management Association

WebMetrics

Web Metrics: Proven Methods for Measuring Web Site Success

Jim Sterne

There now exists a wealth of tools and techniques that can determine if and how a Web site is providing business value to its owners. This book is a survey of those metrics and is as important to IT executives as it is to marketing pros.

WhatSixSig?

What is Six Sigma?

Peter Pande, Larry Holpp

Helpful overview describes what Six Sigma is, why companies are implementing it, and how employees can make it a success in their own organizations.

What is Lean Sigma?

Michael L. George, David Rowlands, Bill Kastle

Text combines two important improvement trends of our time: Six Sigma, and using Lean principles. Shows how this quality improvement method can provide tools to identify and eliminate waste and quality problems in the workplace.

waltz

Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects

Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister

In Waltzing with Bears, Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister—the best-selling authors of Peopleware—show readers how to identify and embrace worthwhile risks. Developers are then set free to push the limits.

Work and Integrity: The Crisis and Promise of Professionalism in America (Preparation for Professions)

William M. Sullivan

This vital book argues for the importance of a new civic professionalism that reflects the ideals of democracy and public service in our ever more complex economic environment.

Zapp

Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment: How to Improve Productivity, Quality, and Employee Satisfaction

William Byham, Jeff Cox

In this motivating book, you will find specific strategies designed to help you encourage responsibility, acknowledgment, and creativity so that employees feel they "own" their jobs. It's all here, in an accessible guide for the successful managers of tomorrow.

 

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