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Project management includes the activities of planning, initiating, monitoring, controlling and closing out projects.

SPC Skills Development Training (partial list of courses)

• Practical Estimation: Getting the Most Value From Your Estimation Practices
• Software Project Management with Philippe Kruchten (3-days)
• Strategies for Managing Software Projects: Increasing Your Value as a Project Manager
• Successfully Managing Agile Projects
• Breakthrough Project Management
• SPC Springboard - Courses for Project Managers

Organizations

• Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Software Program Managers Network

Recommended Links

• Brad Appleton's Software Project Management Links
• ERP Implementation Projects

From SPC's Newsletter

• Crisis Management by Gary Robinson
• Managing Web Projects: Recipes for Success by Geoff Hewson
• Ninety Percent Done by Dr. Karl E. Wiegers
• Better Project Postmortems by Geoff Flamank
• What Does A Good Project Status Report Look Like by Pam Hollington

Recommended Reading

• The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Addison-Wesley Pub Co, 1995
• Peopleware: Productive People and Teams 2nd Ed by Tom Demarco and Timothy Lister, Dorset House, 1999
• Principles of Software Engineering Management by Tom Gilb, Addison-Wesley, 1988
• Software Project Survival Guide by Steve McConnell, Microsoft Press, 1997

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