Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement and Estimation

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This document accompanied a commercial course given by Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister of The Atlantic Systems Guild Inc. It concerns management techniques rather than technical information, but provides insight into programming projects at the time.

Included are four reprints of scholarly articles referenced in the course:

John W. Bailer and Victor R. Basili, A Meta-Model for Software Development Resource Expenditures, 1981
T. Capers Jones, Demographic and Technical Trends in the Computing Industry, 1983
Barry W. Boehm, Maria H. Penedo, E. Don Stuckle, Robert D. Williams, Arthur B. Pyster, A Software Development Environment for Improving Productivity, 1984
Denji Tajima, Tomoo Matsubara, The Computer Software Industry in Japan, 1981

A PDF is available on request.

Date : 1989

Creator : Atlantic Systems Guide Inc.

Format : PDF

This exhibit has a reference ID of CH43449. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History.

Article: Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement and Estimation

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