Delivering the Impossible: Successful Ways of Seeing Software Project Management
暫譯: 實現不可能:成功的軟體專案管理觀點

Stringer, Mark

  • 出版商: Apress
  • 出版日期: 2026-04-02
  • 售價: $1,560
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,482
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 329
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 9798868822049
  • ISBN-13: 9798868822049
  • 相關分類: 專案管理 PM
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商品描述

Software is consuming nearly every aspect of our lives - from dating and finance to delivering food. There's never been a more important time to get better at delivering software. To stay competitive, to survive, we need our software projects to succeed. But far too often, projects that should have succeeded fail. They fail because we can't see what is going on in them. They fail because we are seeing them in the wrong way.

The message of this book is that we need to adopt the right point of view. Seeing things from the right point of view will make us smarter. It will allow us to successfully deliver projects, even when they seem impossible. Part 1 discusses seven ways of seeing software development projects that can make us smarter. Part 2 talks about unhelpful ways of seeing, if we aren't careful they can make us dumb.

The conclusion draws a map. It shows how we can pull ourselves away from unhelpful default thinking. It shows the ways of seeing that can help us move our projects in small, definite steps, in the right direction - towards success and delivering value for users and owners.

What You Will Learn

  • Why commitment and consistency can be harmful in project management
  • How to move in a conscious, principled, way, away from unhelpful perspectives
  • How to avoid common mistakes that can either harm a project, or kill it entirely

Who This Book is For

Project managers who need to deliver software development initiatives. And their bosses - people who fund projects, people who have the ideas, and people whose businesses need new software to succeed, thrive and survive.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

軟體正在消耗我們生活的幾乎每一個面向——從約會和財務到外送食物。現在是提升軟體交付能力的最重要時刻。為了保持競爭力,為了生存,我們需要讓軟體專案成功。然而,許多本應成功的專案卻失敗了。它們失敗的原因在於我們無法看清專案的狀況。它們失敗的原因在於我們以錯誤的方式看待它們。

本書的訊息是,我們需要採取正確的觀點。從正確的觀點看待事物將使我們變得更聰明。這將使我們能夠成功交付專案,即使它們看起來不可能。第一部分討論了七種看待軟體開發專案的方式,這些方式可以讓我們變得更聰明。第二部分則談到不利的看法,如果我們不小心,這些看法可能會讓我們變得愚蠢。

結論繪製了一張地圖。它顯示了我們如何能夠擺脫不利的預設思維。它展示了可以幫助我們以小而明確的步驟朝著正確方向——成功和為用戶及擁有者交付價值——推進專案的看法。

您將學到什麼


  • 為什麼承諾和一致性在專案管理中可能是有害的

  • 如何以有意識的、原則性的方式,遠離不利的觀點

  • 如何避免可能損害專案或完全扼殺專案的常見錯誤


本書適合誰

本書適合需要交付軟體開發計畫的專案經理,以及他們的上司——資助專案的人、擁有創意的人,以及那些需要新軟體來成功、繁榮和生存的商業人士。

作者簡介

Mark Stringer has worked in the software development industry for 30 years. He's been a programmer, applications researcher and, for the last 15 years, a project manager. He's worked with organizations such as IBM, Xerox and Cambridge University.

Mark wrote this book because of a realization. He seemed to be repeatedly reading the same book about project management, but with different titles. This book claimed that, if only you follow some prescribed methodology, everything would be lovely. His experience was that, no matter what methodology you used, things very often weren't lovely.

In recent years, as well as writing this book, he has written and performed a one-man show - "Delivering the Impossible," at the Brighton and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. This is possibly the only fringe show on the subject of project management - ever! He has an honors degree in philosophy from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

馬克·斯特林格在軟體開發產業工作了30年。他曾擔任程式設計師、應用研究員,並在過去15年擔任專案經理。他曾與IBM、施樂(Xerox)和劍橋大學等組織合作過。 馬克寫這本書是因為一個領悟。他發現自己似乎不斷在閱讀關於專案管理的同一本書,只是標題不同。這本書聲稱,只要遵循某些規定的方法論,一切都會很美好。然而他的經驗是,無論使用什麼方法論,事情往往並不如預期般美好。 近年來,除了寫這本書,他還創作並演出了一個獨角戲 - 《交付不可能的任務》(Delivering the Impossible),在布萊頓和愛丁堡藝穗節上演出。這可能是有史以來唯一一個關於專案管理的藝穗表演!他擁有蘇格蘭聖安德魯斯大學的哲學榮譽學位。