A must-have for software project managers, this practical guide zeroes in on project initiation. Karl E. Wiegers draws on his years of experience, delivering best practices, tools, and templates to help get your projects off to a successful start.

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Concise and Very Useful Practical Advice - 2007-10-07
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Approximately 200 concise pages of very good advice. Several useful tools. Another very good book from Karl.

Good Book On Software Projects Management - 2008-03-24
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This book, while good didn't thrill me. It covers some software projects management fundamentals and best practices. It's short, simple and and easy to read, addressing a broad range of topics such as project preparation, project charting, risk management, principled negotiation, project metrics, project retrospectives. In my opinion it's too high-level and most of the topics are already well covered in other books, such as "Rapid Development" by Steve McConnell or "Competitive Engineering" by Tom Gilb (both excellent and quoted in this book). The landmark book by Karl Wiegers is still "Software Requirements".

Project Management - 2009-08-16
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Writer is awesome and right on. Book received in great shape and quickly. Recommend the seller.

Great advice with useful templates - 2008-11-09
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A key to running successful is getting them set up well--anticipating likely problems (not just risks, but also mid-stream changes, for which you'd want a change-control process). I also like that this book not only has solid advice, but also has good sample templates that you can use for many project-related documents.

Helps to start a project - 2007-12-01
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Project inception is the most difficult step for every project. If not done properly, the whole project is going to fail.

In my opinion chapter 3 is the most useful. It concentrates not on how a project should be started, but rather on whether it should be undertaken.
More often than not a project is doomed to fail and should not have been started in the first place. Therefore it is very important to concentrate on the right projects, which are those which are aligned with the business objectives of the enterprise.

Chapter 11 describes a process called "wideband delphi" which is used to gain useful estimations. Wideand delphi allows a group of people to find more accurate estimates.

After all a recommended reading for every manager and project manager.

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