project_management_sources.html.
Oy Laatukonsultointi P. Kantelinen Ab
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Project management - sources
see also Agile/Incremenal Software Development
Pasi K's favourites are marked with an asterisk (*)
WWW pages - WWW-sivuja
Movies - elokuvia
Books, articles - Kirjoja, artikkeleita
Finnsih books - Suomalaisia kirjoja
WWW pages - WWW-sivuja:
- 100 Lessons Learned for Project Managers, NASA Lessons Learned
- Software Productivity Center Inc.'s Software Development and Project Management Resources
- University of Southern California/Model-Based Architecting & Software Engineering home page
- DoD Software Program Managers Network
- Software Development magazines Project Management department
- Steve McConell Home Page
- Construx Software, good information on project management and effort etimation, see also * http://www.construx.com/survivalguide/
- StickyMinds.com (see => Project Management): resources about project management and other areas, too
- QSM articles about estimation and project management
- Project Management Forum
- Project Management Institute
- Projektiyhdistys ry
- retrospective.com - Kert "The Retrospective Man" Norman's home page
- Niwot Ridge resources - a good source of project management related resources
- The Standish Group, IT Project Management, reserach , etc., check CHAOS Chronicles
- Federation of European Software Metrics Associations
- Finnish Software Metrics Association
- Michael Greer's project management related links
- A ProjectConnetcions.com's site on project management knowledge, including people issues (templates, checklists, etc.)
- The Project Manager Home Page (discussion forums, templates, etc.)
- NASA Public Lessonse Learned System (PLLS) Database
- Practical Software & Systems Measurement - lots of good and practical ideas what to measure in software projects and how to do the measurement
- Project Smart home page - lots of project management resources
- SoftwareProjects.org - free project management course, discussion forums, etc.
- StarWright - project management resources
- Scott Berkun's web site - good project management essays and formus
- e-ProjectManagers.com - free project management templates, videos, etc.
- gantthead.com - free project management articles, templates, forums, etc.
- Agile Project Leadership Network
- James Chapman's free Excel templates for drawing Gantt charts
- The XP Game - an agile approach for planning projects
- Project Cartoon - the famous rope swing cartoon
Movies - Elokuvia
- ** Stanley Kubrik: The Paths of Glory, 1957, A warning example of how not to handle commitment in projects
- ** Akira Kurosawa: The Seven Samurais, 1954. Excellent analogy to project management, starting from customer problem definition up to glorious/bitter end.
- ** Edvin Laine: The Unknown Soldier, 1955, based on Vainö Linna's book The Unknown Soldier (book translated to more than 20 languages). Excellent analogy to leading a team.
- ** J. Cameron: Titanic, A cautionary case of a project with ambitous goals, blind reliance on new technology and at the same time neglecting risk management
Books, articles - Kirjoja, artikkeleita
- ** J. Rothman: Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management, The Pragmatic Programmers, June 2007
- ** S. Berkun: The Art of Project Management, O'Reilly, 2005 - covers areas which other PM books usually ignore -
- ** J. Highsmith: Agile Project Management : Creating Innovative Products, Addison-Wesley, 2004
- ** S. McConnell: "How to Defend an Unpopular Schedule", IEEE Software, pp. 118 - 119, May 1996
- ** F. O'Connell: How to Run Successful Projects in Web Time, Artech House Publishers, 2001
- ** J. Spolsky: "Painless Software Schedules", 29.3.2000,
(check also other articles, interesting stuff ) , and interesting points about work space quality:
- ** W. Royce: Software Project Management. A Unified Framework, Addison Wesley, 1998
- ** R. Whitehead: Leading a Software Development Team: A Developer's Guide to Succesfully Leading People and Projects, Addison-Wesley, 2001
- * K. Beck, C. Andreas: Planning Extreme Programming, Addison-Wesley, 2004
- * B. Boehm, D. Port, M. Al-Said: "Avoiding the Software Model-Clash Spiderweb", IEEE Computer, pp. 120 - 122, November 2000
- * B. W. Boehm: "Theory-W Software Project Management: Principles and Examples", IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, pp. 902 - 916, July 1989
- * Brown, W.J. et. al.: AntiPatterns in Project Management, John Wiley & Sons, 2000
- * W. Brown, et.al.: Anti Patterns. Refactoring Software Architecture and Project in Crisis, John Wiley, 1998
- * F. P. Brooks Jr.: The Mythical Man-Month, Addison-Wesley, 1995
- * E. Carmel: Global Software Teams. Collaborating Across Borders and Time Zones., Prentice Hall, 1999
- * A. Cockburn: "Selecting a Project's Methodology", IEEE Software, pp. 64 - 71, July/August 2000
- * T. DeMarco: Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency, Random House, 2001
- * T. DeMarco & T. Lister: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, Dorset House, 1999
- * T. DeMarco: Controlling Software Projects, Yourdon Press, 1982
- * M. Haywood: Managing Virtual Teams: Practical Techniques For High-Technology Project Managers, Artech House, 1998
- * S.P. Keider: "Why Projects Fail", Datamation magazine, pp. 75 - 77, December 1974
- * N. L. Kerth: Project Retrospectives,a Handbook for Team Reviews, Dorset House, 2000
- * T. Kidder: "The Soul of a New Machine", Atlantic-Little Brown, 1981 or Back Bay Books (Little, Brown and Company), 2000
- * S. Maguire: Debugging the Development Process, Microsoft Press, 1994
- * S. McConnell: Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules, Microsoft Press, 1996
- * S. McConnell: Software Project Survival Guide, Microsoft Press, 1997
- * P. W. Metzger, John Boddie: Managing A Programming Project: Processes and People, Prentice Hall, 1995
- * K. P. Madhavi, A.L. Jacob:"Evolutionary Prototype Model for Web Projects", Software Quality Professional, pp. 26 - 32, September, 2001
- * E. Miranda: "Planning and Executing Time-Bound Projects", IEEE Computer, pp. 73 - 79, March 2002
- * N. Poter, M. Sakry: "We Must OvercommitWe Must Win Business", pp. 4 - 14, Software Quality Professional, March 2005
- * S. Rakitin:Creating Accurate Estimates and Realistic Schedules, Software Quality Professional, pp. 30 - 36, March 2002
- * John. S. Reel: "Critical Success Factors in Software Projects", IEEE Software, pp. 18 - 23, May/June 1999
- * L. Rising, N.S. Janoff: "The Scrum Software Development Process for Small Teams", IEEE Software, pp. 26 - 32, July/August 2000
- * L. Suardi: How to Manage Your Software Product Life Cycle with MAUI, Communications of the ACM, pp. 89 - 94, March 2004
- * C. Wallin, F. Ekdahl, S. Larsson: "Integrating Business and Software Development Models", IEEE Software, pp. 28 - 33, November/December 2002
- * E. Yourdon: Death March: The Complete Software Developers Guide to Surviving Mission Impossible Projects, Prentice Hall, 2003
- Project Analyzer, Software Program Managers Network, April 2000 (www.spmn.com/products_guidebooks.html)
- Little Book of Bad Excuces, Software Program Managers Network, June 1998 (www.spmn.com/products_guidebooks.html)
- Communications of the ACM magazine's theme issue on Orchestrating Project Organization and Management, October 1993
- IEEE Software magazine's theme issue on The Business of Software
, November/December 2002
- IEEE Software magazine's theme issue on Small Software Projects
, September/October 2000
- IEEE Computer magazine's theme issue on Object-Oriented Project Management, September 1996
- ISO 10006 Quality management -- Guidelines to quality in project management, ISO Internationall Standardization Organization, suomenkielinen versio SFS:ltä
- T. Abdel-Hamid & S. E. Madnick: Software Project Dynamics, An Integrated Approach, Prentice-Hall, 1991
- K. Aguanno, ed.: Managing Agile Projects, Multi-Media Publications, 2007
- I. Alexander, S. Robertson "Understanding Project Sociology by Modeling Stakeholders", IEEE Software, pp. 23 - 27, January/February 2004
- S. W. Ambler: "Agile Project Management Tips", Ambysoft, 20.2.2006
- S. W. Ambler: "Agile Requirements Change Management", Ambysoft, 19.8.2006
- D.J. Anderson: Agile Management for Software Engineering, Prentice Hall, 2003
- J. Andrea: "The Case of The Missing Fingerprint: Solve The Mystery of Successful End-of-Project Retrospectives", Better Software, pp. 30 - 36, February 2007
- M. Aoyama: "Web-Based Agile Software Development", IEEE Software November/December 1998
- M. Aoyama: "Concurrent Development Process Model", IEEE Software, July 1993
- J. Appelo: Progress in Three Dimensions, Software Quality Professional, pp. 20 - 26, June 2008
- S. Augustine: Managing Agile Projects, Prentice Hall, 2005
- C. M. Baca: Project Management for Mere Mortals, Addison Wesley, 2008
- D.Banerjee: "Software Process Improvement in a Research Institute: Driven with Project Management Process", Software Quality Professional, pp. 15 - 25, March 2005
- E. M. Bennatan: Catastrophe Disentanglement : Getting Software Projects Back on Track, Addison-Wesley, 2006
- E.M. Bennatan: "Catastrophe Disentanglement: Getting Software Projects Back on Track", CrossTalk, October 2004
- E. M. Bennatan: On Time, Within Budget: Software Projects Management Practices and Techniques, John WIley & Sons, 2000
- S. Berkun: "Happy project status meetings", scottberkun.com PM Clinic, week 30, 2005
- A. Birk, T. Dinsoyr, T. Stålhane: "Postmortem: Never Leave a Project without It", IEEE Software, pp. 43 - 45, May/June 2002
- K. Bittner, I. Spence: Managing Iterative Software Development Projects, Addison Wesley, 2006
- B. Boehm: "Project Termination Doesn't Equal Project Failure", IEEE Computer, September 2000
- B. W. Boehm & P.N. Papaccio: "Understanding and Controlling Software Costs", IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, October 1988
- M. Boyd: "A Study of Schedule Slips in a Large Firm", Software Quality
Professional, June 2000
- S. Brady & T.DeMarco: "Management Aided Software-Engineering", IEEE Software, pp. 25 - 32, November 1994
- M. Cantor: Software Leadership: A Guide to Succesful Software, Addison-Wesley, 2002
- F. Charles: "Overtime Under Control" (a good article about handling requests to work overtime), Better Software, pp. 14 - 15, October 2006
- M. Cohn: Agile Estimating and Planning, Prentice Hall PTR, 2005
- B. Collier, T. DeMarco, P. Feary: "A Defined Process For Project Postmortem Review", IEEE Software, pp. 65 - 72, July 1996
- A.D. Carlton, R.E. Park & W.B. Goehart: Software Measurement for DoD Systems: Recommendations for Initial Core Measures, CMU/SEI-92-TR-19
- M. Ceschi, A. Sillitti, G. Succi, S. De Panfilis: "Project Management in Plan-Based and Agile Companies", IEEE Software, pp. 21-27, May/June 2005
- A. Davis: "Trial by Firing: Saga of a Rookie Manager", IEEE Software, pp. 109 - 110, September 1994
- B. De Baar: Surprise! Now Youre a Software Project Manager, Multi-Media Publications, 2006
- D. DeCarlo: "Why Traditional Project Planning Often Fails", gantthead.com, September 4, 2007
- T. DeMarco, P. Hruschka, T. Lister, S. McMenamin, J. Robertson, S. Robertson: Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior, Dorset House, 2008
- M. Denne, J. Cleland-Huang: "The Incremental Funding Method: Data-Driven Software Development", IEEE Software, pp. 39 - 47, May/June 2004
- E. Derby: Eight Reasons Retrospectives Fail (And What You Can Do About Them), StickyMinds, 19.5.2008
- E. Derby: "Looking Back, Moving Forward Retrospectives Help Teams Inspect and Adapt", StickyMinds.com, September 19, 2007
- E. Derby, D. Larsen: Agile Retrospectives. Making Good Teams Great, Pragmatic Programmers, 2006
- R. Dixon: Open Source Software Law, Artech House, 2004
- P. Donzelli: "A Decision Support System for Software Project Management", IEEE Software, pp. 67-75, July/August 2006
- P. Ensworth: The Accidental Project Manager: Surviving the Transition from Techie to Manager, John Wiley and Sons, 2001
- K. Ewusi-Mensah: Software Development Failures: Anatomy of Abandoned Projects, The MIT Press, 2003, free online book for ACM members
- R. E. Fairley, M.J. Willshire: "Why the Vasa Sank: 10 Problems and Some Antidotes for Software Projects", IEEE Software, pp. 18 - 25, March/April 2003
- R. I. Faulconbridge, M. J. Ryan: Managing Complex Technical Projects: A Systems Engineering Approach, Artech House, 2003, free online book for ACM members
- A. Friedlein: Web Project Management, Morgan Kaufmann Publisher, 2001
- R. T. Futrell, D.F. Shafer, L.I. Shafer: Quality Software Project Management, Prentice Hall, 2002
- R. Galen: Software Endgames: Eliminating Defects, Controlling Change, and the Countdown to On-Time Delivery, Dorset House, 2005
- T. Gilb: Evolutionary Project Management: Controlling Complexity, Communicating Clearly, Challenging Creativity, Addison Wesley 2003
- F.P. Ginac: Creating High Performance Software Development Teams, Prentice Hall, 2000
- R.L. Glass: Computing Calamities: Lessons Learned from Products, Projects, and Companies That Failed, Prentice Hall, 1999
- R.L. Glass: "Short-Term and Long-Term Remedies for Runaway Projects", Communications of the ACM, pp. 13 - 15, July 1998
- R. L. Glass: Software Runaways - Lessons Learned from Massive Software Failure, Prentice Hall, 1998
- W.B. Goethert, E.K. Bailey & M.B. Busby: Software Effort & Schedule Measurement: A Framework for Counting Staff-Hours and Reporting Schedule Information, CMU/SEI-92-TR-21
- A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), Project Management Instinute
- D. Haith: "The Agile retrospective. A Healthy Pit Stop for High Performing Teams", iterations, Number Six, Volume Two, Issue Three, July 2007
- P. Hall:"Exploring Project Priorities", StickyLetter, February 7, 2007
- J. Hallows: Information Systems Project Management, AMACOM 1998, free online book for ACM members
- K. T. Hansen: "Project Visualization for Software", IEEE Software, pp. 84-92, July/August 2006
- J. Henry: Software Project Management: A Real-World Guide to Success, Addison-Wesley, 2004
- W.S. Humphrey: Winning with Software (An Executive Strategy), Addison-Wesley, 2002
- W.S. Humphrey: Managing the Software Process, Addison-Wesley, 1989
- C. Iacovou, A.S. Dexter: "Surviving IT Project Cancellations", Communications of the ACM, pp. 83 - 86, April 2005
- P. Jalote: Software Project Management in Practice, Addison-Wesley, 2002
- P. Jalote: CMM in Practice: Processes for Executing Software Projects at Infosys, Addisson-Wesley (www.awl.com), 2000
- B. Jiang: "Key Elements of a Successful Project Manager", Project Management, pp. 14 - 19, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2002
- C. Jones: "Patterns of large software systems: Failure and success", IEEE Computer, March 1995
- C. Jones: Patterns of Software System Failure and Success, International Thomson, 1996
- M. Jørgensen, G.J. Carelius: An Empirical Study of Software Project Bidding, IEEE Transactions on Softwrae Engineering, pp. 953 - 969, December 2004
- N. Karten: Managing Expectations. Working with People Who Want More, Better, Faster, Sonner, NOW!, Dorset House, 1994
- M. Keill, D. Robey: "Blowing the Whistle on Troubled Software Projects", Communiations of the ACM, pp. 87 - 93, April 2001
- C. Keith: "Get in the Game. Agile Lessons from Video Game Developers.", Better Software, pp. 24 - 27, November 2006
- K. Kelly: Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization, Addison-Wesley, 1994, available online
- R. B. Kelsey: Chaos and Complexity in Software, Challening the Industry and the New Science, Nova Science Publishers, 1999
- R.M. Kesner: The Hands-On Project Office: Guaranteeing ROI and On-Time Delivery, Auerbach Publications, 2003, free online book for ACM members
- M. Kozak-Holland: Avoiding Project Disaster: Titanic Lessons for IT Executives, Multi-Media Publications, 2006
- M. Kozak-Holland: Titanic Lessons for IT Projects, Multi-Media Publications, 2004
- P. A. Laplante, ed.: Keys to Successful Software Development: Selected Readings, IEEE Computer Society, 1999
- S. Lazenby: Test-Drive Project Management, Glenayre Technologies, May 19, 2004
- D.R. Lindstrom: "Five Ways to Destroy a Development Project", IEEE Software, pp. 55 - 58, September 1993
- T. Little: "Schedule Estimation and Uncertainty Surrounding the Cone of Uncertainty", IEEE Software, pp. 48-54, May/June 2006
- A. Longman, J. Mullins: The Rational Project Manager:. A Thinking Teams Guide to Getting Work Done, John Wiley & Sons, 2005
- T. Mackinnon: "Retrospective agility have you learned anything?", ObjectiveView Issue #8, Ratio Group, pp. 10 - 17, 2006
- R. Mascitelli: Building a Project-Driven Enterprise: How to Slash Waste and Boost Profits Through Lean Project Management, Technology Perspectives, 2002
- S. McConnell: Professional Software Development: Shorter Schedules, Higher Quality Products, More Successful Projects, Enhanced Careers, Addison-Wesley, 2003
- S. McConnell: "Achieving Leaner Software", IEEE Software, November/December 1997
- P.A. McQuaid: "Rapid Application Development: Project Management Issues to Consider", Software Quality Professional, June 2001
- U. Merz: "Your Authentic Swing" (articel about coaching in projects), Software Development, pp. 53 - 55, August 2002
- P.W. Metzger: Managing a Programming Project, Prentice-Hall, 1981
- E. Miranda: Running Successful Hi-Tech Project Office, Artech House, 2003
- J. Mudhol: Round Table on Project Management, Dorset House, 2001
- T. Mochal, J. Mochal: Lessons in Project Management, Apress, 2003
- K. Moløkken-Østvold:, M. Jørgensen "A Comparison of Software Project Overruns - Flexible versus Sequential Development Models", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, pp. 754 - 766, September 2005
- P. Nesi: "Managing OO Projects Better", IEEE Software, July/August 1998
- F. O'Connell: How to Run Successful Projects III: The Silver Bullet, Addison Wesley, 2002
- F. O'Connell: How to Run Successful High-Tech Project-Based Organizations, Artech House Publishers, 1999
- D.S. Olson, C.L. Stimmel: Manager Pool: Patterns for Radical Leadership, Addison-Wesley, 2002
- M.A. Ould: Strategies For Software Engineering: The management of Risk and Quality, John Wiley & Sons, 1990
- E. Oz: "When Professional Standards are Lax. The CONFIRM Failure and its Lessons.", Communications of the ACM, October 1994
- L. J. Peter: Getting Results from Software Development Teams, Microsoft Press, 2008
- D. Phillips: Software Project Manager's Handbook. Principles that Work at Work., IEEE Computer Society, 200
- M. Pittman: "Lessons Learned in Managing Object-Oriented Development", IEEE Software January 1993
- M. Poppencieck: "Wicked Problems", Software Development, pp. 72 - 75, May 2002
- C. Pritchard: The Project Management Communications Toolkit, Artech House, 2004
- N. Potter, M. Sakry: "We Must Overcommit - We Must Win Business", Software Quality Professional, pp. 4 - 14, March 2005
- Practical Software Measurement: A Foundation for Objective Project Management, Practical Software & Systems Measurement , DoD and US army sponsored group
- A. Pukinskis: "Better Agile Retrospectives", theagileblog, Nov 16, 2005
- L.H. Putnam, W. Myers: Controlling Software Development. Executive Briefing, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1996
- L.H. Putnam, W. Myers: Measures for Excellence. Reliable Software on Time, within Budget, Yourdon Press, 1992
- P. F. Rad: The Advanced Project Management Office, Aurebach, 2002
- J.B. Rainsberger: "Personal Planning",IEEE Software, pp. 16-17, January/February 2007
- J.J. Rakos: Software Project Management for Small to Medium Sized Projects, Prentice-Hall, 1990
- F. Redmill: Software Projects. Evolutionary vs. Big-Bang, John Wiley, 1997
- N. Reizer, Nancy Wang: Juggling Concurrent Releases. Dividing your attention between past, present, and future, (topic: how to manage testing projects) Sticky Letter. 2.2.2005
- D. J. Reifer: Tutorial: Software Management, IEEE Computer Society Press
- J. Richardson, W. Gwaltney: Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects, The Pragmatic Programmers, June 2005
- H. Rittel, M. Webber: Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions, Prentice Hall, 1990
- S. Robertson, J. Robertson: Requirements-Led Project Management : Discovering David's Slingshot, Addison-Wesley, 2004
- J. Rothman: "Are We There Yet? Creating Project Dashboard to Display Project Progress", Better Software, pp. 22 - 28, January 2006
- J. Rothman: "Beyond Tool Use" (the article is about hiring for a project), Software Development, pp. 49 - 51, October 2002
- J. Rothman: "No More Meeting Mutinies", Software Development, pp. 59 - 60, March 2002
- J. Sandred: Managing Open Source Projects, Wiley, 2001
- P. Schulte: Complex IT Project Management, Aurebach 2003
- S. Sinofsky: "What do managers do and how big should my team be?", Micorsoft TechTalk, 24.9.2004
- K. Schneider, J-P von Hunnius: "Experience in Implementing a Learning Organization", Software, pp. 46 - 49, May/June 2002
- K. Schwaber: Agile Project Management with Scrum, Microsoft Press 2004
- J.F. Smart: "Test-based Project Progress Reporting", StickyMinds, 5.4.2006
- P. G. Smith: Flexible Product Development: Building Agility for Changing Markets, Jossey-Bass, 2007, for more info
- P.G. Smith & D.G. Reinersten: Developing Products in Half the Time, VanNostrand Reinhard
- R.B Smith: "Red Flags, Blue Lessons" (weak signals of project problems), Software Development, pp. 50 - 52, May 2005
- J. M. Smith: Troubled IT Projects: Prevention and Turnarounds, Institution of Electrical Engineers, 2001, free online book for ACM members
- J. Spolsky: "Still gambling on project scheduling? Learn how you can beat the odds.", Better Software, pp. 22 - 26, March 2007
- J. Spolsky: "Bionic Office", 24.9.2003 (an interesting example of software developers' office), http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BionicOffice.html
- R. van Solingen, E. Berghout, F. van Latum: "Interrupts: Just a Minute Never Is", IEEE Software, pp. 97 - 103, September/October 1998
- A. Stellman, J. Greene: "Quick-Kill Project Management", Dr. Dobb's Journal, pp. 44 - 48, August 2006
- G. Stepanek: "Why Software is Different", The Code Project/Book chapters, 8 Feb 2006
- G. Stepanek: Software Project Secrets: Why Software Projects Fail, Apress, 2005
- R. D. Stutzke: Estimating Software-Intensive Systems : Projects, Products, and Processes, Addison-Wesley Professional (SEI Series in Software Engineering, books companion web site), 2005
- E. Sullivan: Under Pressure and On Time, Microsoft Press 2001 (good info about hiring and project organization, chapters 1 - 3)
- J. Tabaka: "How Knowledge-Creating Teams Use Physical Space", (a good article about software developers' office arrangements), Better Software, pp. 23 - 29, October 2006
- J. Tabaka: Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders, Addison Wesley Professional, 2006
- K. Tate: Unsustainable Software Development and its Causes, Addison Wesley Professional, 2005
- K. Tate: Sustainable Software Development: An Agile Perspective, Addison Wesley Professional, 2005
- S.D. Teasley, et.al.: "Rapid Software Development through Team Collocation", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, pp. 671 - 683, July 2002
- R. H. Thayer: Tutorial: Software Engineering Project Management, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997
- R. Thomsett: Radical Project Management, Prentice Hall PTR, 2002
- K. Thompson: "People Projects: Psychometric Profiling", CrossTalk, April 2003
- P.C. Tinnirello, ed.: New Directions in Project Management, Auerbach Publications, 2001
- P.C. Tinnirello, ed.: Best Practices Series: Project Management., Auerbach, 2000
- S. Tokey: Return on Software, Addison-Wesley, 2005
- F. Tsui: Managing Software Projects, Jones and Barlett Publishers, 2004
- W. C. Wake, Some Patterns for Iteration Retrospectives, Sep, 2005
- D. Wallace, I. Raggett, J. Aufgang: Extreme Programming for Web Projects, Addison Wesley, 2003
- E. van Waning: Software Lifecycle Management and Christopher Columbus Predictability in software development, QSM, 2005
- M. Watson: Managing Smaller Projects: A Practical Approach, Multi-Media Publications, 2006
- K.I. Watson: COCOMO as a Schedule Prognosis and Validation tool: Case Study, Software Quality Journal, December 1992
- D. R. Webb, D. Tuma: "Personal Earned Value: Why Projects Using the Team Software Process Consistently Meet Schedule Commitments", Digital CrossTalk, March 2005
- T. Wells: Dynamic Software Development: Managing Projects in Flux, Auerbach, 2002
- N. Whitten: Managing Software Development Projects, John Wiley & Sons, 1995
- KE. Wiegers: " ...2...1... Liftoff!", Better Software, pp. 47 - 48, November 2007
- K E. Wiegers: Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools (Pro - Best Practices), Microsoft Press, 2007
- K. Wiegers: "Are We There Yet?" (article about release criteria), Software Development, pp. 26 - 29, June 2005
- R. K. Wysocki: Adaptive Project Framework: A Common Sense Approach to Managing Complex Projects, EII Publications, 2006
- R. K. Wysocki, R. McGary: Effective Project Management: Traditional, Adaptive, Extreme, Wiley, 2006
- R.K. Wysocki: Project Management Process Improvement, Artech House, 2004
- R. K. Wysocki: "Adaptive Project Framework: A Common Sense Approach to Managing Complex Projects", gantthead.com, June 30, 2003
- S. Woodward: "Evolutionary Project Management", IEEE Computer, pp. 49 - 57, October 1999
- R.K Wysocki, R. Beck: Effective Project Management. How to Plan, Manage, and Deliver Project on Time and Within Budget, John Wiley & Sons, 1995
- D. Youli: Making Software Development Visible. Effective Project Control, Wiley, 1990
- E. Yourdon: Managing High-Intensity Internet Projects, Prentice Hall, 2002
- G. P. Zachary: Showstopper. The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft, Free Press, 1994
- Developing Object-Oriented Software. An Experience-Based Approach, (by team members of IBM Object-Oriented Technology Center), Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-737248-5, 1997)
Finnish books - Suomenkielisiä kirjoja kirjoja
- S. Berkun: Projektinhallinnan taito, Readme.fi, 2005
- P. Forselius, M. Karvinen, M. Kosonen: TiVi-projektien johtaminen, Talentum, 2005
- L. Forsman: Atk-projektin läpivienti, Suomen Atk-kustannus Oy
- S. Kettunen: Onnistu projektissa, WSOY Yritysjulkaisut, 2003
- O. Lind: Näin tehdään onnistunut projekti, Ruotukka Oy, 2001, http://www.mediamikkeli.fi/ollilind/
- S. McConnell: Ohjelmistoprojektin selviytymisopas, Suomen atk-kustannus, 1997
- P. Mäkelä, H. Stenlund: Projektijohtaminen: Toiminnanohjaus verkostotaloudessa, 1995
- H. Niemi: Tietojärjestelmäprojekti: Tietojärjestelmän kehittämisen suunnittelu ja ohjaus, Valtion painatuskeskus, 1993
- R. Pelin: Projektinhallinnan käsikirja, Projektinjohtaminen Oy Risto Pelin, 2008
- K. Ruuska: Pidä projekti hallinnassa, Talentum Oy, 2005
- M. Sell: Projektin ohjaus, Suomen atk-kustannus, 1975
- P. Silfverberg: Ideasta projektiksi: projektisuunnittelun käsikirja, Edita, 1996
- P. Virkki & A. Somermeri: Projektityö - kehittämisen moottori, Painatuskeskus Oy, 1992
- P. Virtanen: Projektityö, WSOY Yritysjulkaisut, 2000