Managing the Test People: A Guide to Practical Technical Management Review

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(More customer reviews)I am a 23 year veteran developer who got behind the technology curve and ended up in management.Having been self-employed, my people skills were pretty good, but, having been a loner for the most part, my management skills were nil.To the rescue was the book Managing the Test People.The Perfect Beast is the metaphor for an organization charged with testing developed software. The beast must be congenial on the outside and tenacious on the inside in order to accomplish its task.The book is concise yet thorough in the coverage of management topics related to creating and nurturing the beast.It has an easy reading style that makes it ideal for a management neophyte like myself and could easily apply to the management of any technical organization.

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Managing the Test People was written for managers, leads, and people who may soon find themselves in a technical leadership position.It focuses on some of the unique problems in the software quality assurance profession, yet the bulk of the book is applicable to any technical management job.It provides practical advice for the novice and affirmation for the expert.It contains real world stories illustrating the concepts discussed in the text. This book is written from a practitioner's viewpoint.The author has been in software management for over 20 years, working in a variety of companies, and has always been struck by the lack of practical, real world advice found only in general management books.Yes, all those methods should theoretically work, until you add in the politics of the environment, the technical work that must be done and, of course, those pesky people who seem intent on fouling up your plans. Managing the Test People is real - it's about the real world where there are real problems and real people, and it provides viable solutions that can actually be implemented.

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Goal Directed Project Management: Effective Techniques and Strategies Review

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(More customer reviews)GDPM is the best tool for planning organisational change projects. It is not suitable for technical projects. GDPM is both a philosophy and a method and exactly that is what makes it so powerfull. Apart from adressing the five pitfalls in the beginning of the book it introduces layered planning. GDPM is about planning the WHAT and making people responsible (the WHO) for results before the project starts. After that the planning of the HOW is a cascade. In an organisational change project you can't plan activity 216 at the beginning of the project. You should only plan the activities of the first 3-5 milestones. GDPM forces you to organise your communication as well and makes sure you communicate (the 2way street) and not inform (the 1way street). The nice thing is that you need only two A4 forms to plan your project which makes it not only an effective method but also an efficient one.

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Goal Directed Project Management (GDPM) is a unique methodology that has been developed and refined by the authors over a period of more than 20 years. In this time, organizations all over the world have adopted it as a standard approach. The central focus of GDPM is to develop understanding, commitment and involvement while managing successful and lasting change. The authors emphasize the need for a 'PSO' (People, System and Organization) perspective that goes beyond the technical aspects dealt with by most project management literature. Goal Directed Project Management gives detailed and practical guidance on how to plan, organize and control these PSO projects effectively, presenting methods and tools that will increase significantly the probability of project success. This fourth edition addresses the financial control of projects in a new chapter, presenting a pragmatic approach - based on GDPM methods - to this aspect of project management.

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