Books

Are you working on work you shouldn’t be? Trying to do it all, even though you know that’s a lost cause? Working on multiple projects as single projects, instead of a program? Use these ideas to start managing your project portfolio.

"This extraordinary book grabbed me from the Preface through to its end. Well written, readable, and paced comfortably. . . . Highly recommended. . . . sure to change how you develop requirements for your projects."  —John L. Berg, Computer Standards & Interfaces

"Consciousness raising for systems analysts."—Tom Demarco, Principal, Atlantic Systems Guild "It's likely that this book will not only give you concrete ways to improve our requirements gathering process, but will also change the way that you look at requirements."—Elisabeth Hendrickson, Quality Tree Consulting

This book is a work in progress. Contributions are accepted via Pull Requests here: https://github.com/web2project/manual

Gerald Weinberg's new work will be good reading not only for designers but for anyone wanting to understand design, particularly the users and managers of information systems. . . . life lessons such as those in this book will continue to be the most useful guide there is, both for introducing prospective practitioners and for reminding the old hands of what they may occasionally forget. —International Journal of General Systems

Ralph Nelson Elliott in the 1930s was the pioneer of FOREX "Wave Theory". Yes, he was onto something, but did not fully understand data communications! Every book that was ever written on "Elliott Wave Theory" is missing this one critical piece of information that I explain thoroughly in this book and provide the MQL source code as Bonus Content.

...a lot of good concepts and models. Very thought-provoking. If you wonder why you haven't been able to change your organization, Becoming a Change Artist is well worth reading.

- brimming with simple techniques & examples of their application –Computing Rev. - required reading for anyone who cares about project success—N. Karten - enlightening, practical, humorous, and enormously inspiring—Yourdon - a must for all sentient software line and project managers—S/W Quality World

"The wealth of wisdom in this volume speaks directly to individuals who want to improve their own powers of observation—a prerequisite to successfully applying knowledge to improve software quality. . . . a must for all sentient software line and project managers!" —Shel Siegel, Software Quality World

Why Software Gets In Trouble? Why not just say "people make mistakes"? Why not? Because there are reasons people make mistakes, and make them repeatedly, and fail to discover and correct them. That's what this book is about.

An Agile process, without the right mindset, does not yield great results. Pragmatic, method-agnostic, and easy to follow, this book illuminates the adaptive, people-before-process mindset that delights customers with reliable value delivery. Unlike most books, which prescribe what to do, this one explains how to think and act in an Agile way.

James Bach says, "Read this book and get your head straight about testing. I consider Jerry (Weinberg) to be the greatest living tester." Answers the questions that puzzle the most people: Why do we have to bother testing? Why not just test everything? What is it that makes testing so hard? Why does testing take so long? Is perfect software even possible? Why can't we just accept a few bugs?

Linda Rising says about this book: "Of course, there are other books on the protocols and exercises for retrospectives, but these don't share the 'whys' of this important ritual. What Jutta has done for us is provide real experience reports that show how useful retrospectives can be and share her research around using retrospectives to lead change in an organization. Get this book and read it!" (Linda Rising, Co-Author of Fearless Change and More Fearless Change)

It is great fun and really hard to work together effectively in international teams! Learn what worked (and what did not work) in real international projects, so that you can become more effective in your projects.

Cost of Delay can tell you where your projects' delays occur and why—and the impact those delays have on your project portfolio. Learn to see and eliminate the Costs of Delay in your project to make the project portfolio decisions smoother.