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The "Death March" Project Continued

Resources

When it comes to project management, the Web industry can learn a lot from software development. The following are several good resources from the software development literature that address issues involved in managing Web development projects.

Edward Yourdon, Death March: The Complete Software Developer's Guide to Surviving "Mission Impossible" Projects. (Prentice Hall, 1997)
Steve Maguire, Debugging the Development Process: Practical Strategies for Staying Focused, Hitting Ship Dates, and Building Solid Teams. (Microsoft Press, 1994)
Steve McConnell, Software Project Survival Guide. (Microsoft Press, 1997)
Steve McConnell, Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules. (Microsoft Press, 1996)
Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister, Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams. (Dorset House, 1987)

For a related article, try Managing Web Projects: Understanding project management for the Web.

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