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A must-have book for managers/tech leads/senior developers

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2005

Having seen quite a few projects go haywire; reading this book

made me pinpoint exactly all the faults those projects had. The

good thing about this book is that its complete. Some books cover

some areas and some others, but this covers all. For eg., if you

just read the first few chapters and decided to apply techniques

learnt to your project, you might not apply them correctly as you

you didn't read the whole book to get a complete picture of

rapid development.

This books is good for people working in startups. Developers

should also read this book so that they can help avoid mistakes

of managers/tech.leads in a fast-paced environment where things

can get easily missed.

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Aristos Aresti

A lot of repeating and unnecessary/obvious information

Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2016

A major disappointment after reading Code Complete. A lot of repeating and unnecessary/obvious information. It could have easily been half the size.

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A must-have book for managers/tech leads/senior developers

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2005

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Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2002

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The desktop reference that every project team member should have is Steve McConnell's "Rapid Development". My reason? This book covers just about everything - from Best Practices (more than 2 dozen) to Team Building, and includes case studies, "Do's and Don'ts", nuts and bolts, and topics of interest for any team member. It's a forward-thinking type of reference that literally makes people think about why "doing things right the first time" is far less painfull than "doing it again the right way". It's about 2-inches thick with nearly 650 pages of eye-opening reading for all.

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J. Thomas Dyess

Great for Managers and Developers

Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2000

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This is an excellent project-centric book for both managers and developers. If you are a manager, it tells you what to do and what not to do. Teaches you not to be bullied by technologically ignorant corporate officers, how developers think and how to make them happy. Most of all, it teaches you how to leverage your projects to get the most bang for your buck. Sites real-world examples as well as the hypothetical. I highly recommend this book for anyone working professionally in the IT/IS industry.

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Joao Cortez

A Must Read For Anybody Interested In The Dynamics Of Software Engineering

Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2007

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This book is quite long, but worth every page. As a programmer, one usually gets focused on that - programming. There are however, several dynamics at play at any given software development project: customers, unstable requirements, risks, teamwork, tools, etc. This book presents several fundamental principles, strategies, philosophies and mistakes and than goes to present a set of very important best practices. I highly recommend it!

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D. Mozingo

Good book with solid advice

Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2007

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While I enjoyed reading much of this book, and it had excellent advice, I found much of it only applying to project managers and other management with the ability to really effect change. As a lower level developer, there's not a lot I can do with the information in this book, but I think it's relevance will increase ten fold as I progress through my career, hopefully saving myself from making many mistakes on the way.

Overall it was a nice easy read, but beware that it won't be very applicable early in your career.

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T. Hollins

Was well worth the time to read it.

Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2014

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It might be somewhat dated, but it was well worth the read.
It had a lot of meat to the book.
I would recommend Team Lead's read this to give you some extra ideas about managing your development team.

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Alexander E.

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Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2019

Lots of good advice

Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2007

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Took me a couple of months to work through this thick catalog of project management techniques, but worth it I think. It dates back to the late eighties, but is still relevant today. I'm glad I read it.

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Dwight J. Worker

the best book on software project management ever written

Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2014

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It does not matter that this is over 15 years old. It is every bit as relevant today. My students loved it.

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Craig Cecil

Should be read, re-read, and memorized

Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2005

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This book should be read, re-read, memorized, and used by anyone involved in the planning, management, development, or deployment of software. It's that good. Steve McConnell presents a succinct, well organized collection of the lessons learned and best practices in software engineering over the last three decades.

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