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After more than a dozen books, hundreds of articles, lecture tours around the world, and successfully founding and selling two software companies author William Roetzheim collected together his most important thoughts and lessons in this book to share with the industry.The book covers risk management, estimating, planning, strategic planning, process management and quality assurance, and preparing a company for sale. Included are chapters on Software Project Audits, Litigating Failed Software Projects, Estimating Project Costs and Benefits, The Seven Habits of Highly Successful Organizations, The Relationship between Strategic Planning and Process Improvement, Ten Questions a CEO Needs To Ask About Process Improvement, Customized Process Improvement, Process Control, and Project Documentation. Everyone involved with software projects, from the Task Lead through the Project Manager and right up to the CEO will benefit from the information in this book.

William Roetzheim is best known as the author of ten technical books on management, technology, and software along with over 150 technical articles. He founded two successful software companies (Marotz, Inc. and Cost Xpert Group, Inc.), winning numerous awards (Inc. 500, Deloitte and Touch Fast 50, Total Excellence in Management Award, Best Place to Work in San Diego, Borland Application of the Year, and many others). He sold both companies and retired from the world of technology to focus on his primary love, poetry. His poems have won numerous awards and recognition, including the Milford Fine Arts Council National Poetry Contest, Writers Challenge, Faulkner Society Poetry Award, Oberon Prize, Pagan Poetry Contest, Saturday Writers One Page Poetry Contest, and the Baltimore Science Fiction Convention Poetry Prize.

Table of Contents	p. v
Preface	p. vii
Managing Risk	p. 1
Ten Tough Questions to Ask When Reviewing a Project Plan	p. 3
Software Project Audits	p. 11
An Island of Sanity in a Runaway Project	p. 25
Litigating Failed Software Projects	p. 31
A Portfolio Based Approach to Project Risk Management	p. 49
Risk Planning as an Integral Part of Project Planning	p. 53
Dealing with Risk In An Uncertain World	p. 63
Risk Analysis	p. 73
Risk Optimization	p. 89
Risk Planning	p. 99
Risk Tracking	p. 113
Estimating and Planning a Project	p. 119
Estimating Project Costs and Benefits	p. 121
Estimating Software Costs	p. 133
Project Cost Adjustments	p. 147
Dealing with Reuse	p. 163
Creating the Project Plan	p. 179
A Personal Project Estimating Process	p. 193
Using Project Planning Tools for Software Valuation	p. 201
Strategic Planning	p. 205
The Seven Habits of Highly Successful Organizations	p. 207
Successful Strategic Planning	p. 215
The Relationship between Strategic Planning and Process Improvement	p. 221
Process Management	p. 231
Ten Steps To Successful Process Improvement	p. 233
Ten Questions a CEO Needs To Ask About Process Improvement	p. 243
Customized Process Improvement	p. 255
The Capability maturity model integration as a Framework for Process Improvement	p. 269
Change Management as an Integral Part of Process Improvement	p. 283
Is Your Process Out of Control?	p. 291
A Regional Expert Approach to Training	p. 305
Project Documentation as a Process	p. 309
Selling your Company	p. 333
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Old-School Software Development Lessons from a Software Survivor

Old-School Software Development Lessons from a Software Survivor

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