Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimates

By Tom DeMarco

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0917072324
• ISBN13: 9780917072321
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Yourdon Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Classic, but is it timeless?

Tom Demarco should be required reading for anyone who is a software engineering manager. This book was one of the first in a long line of references for quantifying the craft of software engineering. But this book has not aged as well as, say "Mythical Man Month" or "Death March". Don't get me wrong - I am giving it 4 stars because it is still full of excellent material; you just need other, more 'modern' references to...

A must read for any software manager

"You can't control what you can't measure", is how DeMarco opens this seminal work in software project management, and the primary focus of this book is how to develop an effective strategy for measuring software development costs and thus build a reliable means of estimating the cost of future projects. Most of this discussion is, in my opinion, too dated to be of direct use (DeMarco suggests, for example, that counting...

Good book for Software projects estimation

This is an excelent textbook about software projects estimation. The only problem with the book is the lack of more examples to learn the techniques discussed.