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A Hacker’s Guide
to
Project Management
Second Edition
A Hacker’s Guide
to
Project Management
Second Edition
Andrew K. Johnston
Illustrated by Sarah Ward, Helen Floate and Andrew K. Johnston
OXFORD AMSTERDAM BOSTON LONDON NEW YORK PARIS
SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO SINGAPORE SYDNEY TOKYO
Butterworth-Heinemann
An imprint of Elsevier Science
Linacre House, J
ordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP
200 Wheeler Road, Burlington MA 01803
First published 1995
Reprinted 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
Second edition 2003
Copyright © 1995, 2003, Andrew K. J
ohnston. All rights reserved.
Original Cartoons © Sarah Ward 1995 except P160 © Helen Floate 2003
The right of Andrew K. J
ohnston to be identified as the author of this work has been
asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
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ISBN: 0750657464
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Written and typeset by the author, using Microsoft Word-for-Windows. The Gantt
and PERT charts on page 80 were prepared using Microsoft Project.
Printed and bound in Great Britain
Contents
Contents _______________________________________________________________ 1
Introduction _____________________________________________________________ 5
Should I Be Reading this Book?
So What’s This All About?
What Do You Assume I Know?
Will You Tell Me About Short-Cuts?
How Does this Book Relate to Structured Methods?
What’s Changed in the Second Edition?
Acknowledgements
Why Do Software Projects Fail?
So How Do I Know If I’ve Succeeded?
Prevention and Cure
What Do I Have to Deliver?
So How Do I Ensure Success?
What Does a Project Manager Do?
What are the Key Skills of a Project Manager?
How Do I Lead?
What if People Make Mistakes?
How Do I Build a Team?
How Do I Make Sure the Team is Complete?
How Do I Plan, Report and Communicate?
How Do I Gain Management Approval and Confidence?
How Expert Do I Have to Be?
How Do I Spot Problems?
Is Programming Important?
What Do I Do?
What is the Waterfall Life-Cycle?
What is Missing from Most Waterfall Methods?
How Do Iterative and Incremental Methods Work?
How Does Rapid Application Development Work?
What Can Go Wrong?
How Do I Choose A Method?
How Do I Use the Method?
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Success and Failure _______________________________________________________ 15
The Art of Project Management ________________________________________________ 23
The Development Life-Cycle __________________________________________________ 43

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