Beyond Chaos: The Expert Edge in Managing Software Development (ACM Press)

Breakthrough ideas for managing software development, from the world's leading software engineers, developers, and managers!

• 28 of Software Development Magazine's best Management Forum essays -- edited by software engineering legend Larry Constantine!
• From "death march" projects to outsourcing, teamwork to Web development, business rules to metrics, and beyond.
• Contributions from Karl Wiegers, Ed Yourdon, Capers Jones, Steve McConnell, Meilir Page-Jones, and many more.

In Beyond Chaos, legendary software engineer Larry Constantine brings together 28 outstanding essays on software project management, straight from the must-read Management Forum column in Software Development Magazine. Critically important reading for every software manager and engineer, this book covers an extraordinarily wide range of issues -- with equally impressive depth. You'll find Karl Wiegers on the basics of project management, and Capers Jones on software productivity measurement; Steve McConnell on managing outsourced projects and Michael Vizard on the need for stronger software professional standards. From Lucy Lockwood on aligning development with e-Business, to Ed Yourdon on surviving software "death marches," it's here: dealing with difficult people, sustaining teamwork, coping with project failure, managing from the bottom up, and much more. There are also four essays by Larry Constantine himself, covering requirements, development culture, modeling, and other key issues.

Larry Constantine is Principal Consultant of Constantine & Lockwood, Ltd. Known as the father of Structured Design, he is one of the pioneers of modern software engineering practice. He is highly regarded as an authority on the human side of software development, and has authored ten books, including Structured Design, Second Edition (Prentice Hall, 1979), Constantine on Peopleware (Prentice Hall, 1995), and the Jolt Cola award-winning Software for Use (Addison Wesley, 1999).