Bas De Baar
Bas De Baar''Bas de Baar works as a project manager within the publishing industry. He holds a degree in Business Informatics and lives currently with his wife in Zandvoort, The Netherlands.
Ever wonder why books on the management of software projects are big and boring? They should be fast and fun. Bas de Baar puts the fun back into learning about software project management with his recently published book: The Microwave Way to Software Project Management (ISBN 0-595-22711-2 ).
- NO MORE LARGE BINDERS! This is a fast guide! Just the essentials! - NO MORE BORING TEXT BOOKS! This one is just plain fun! - NO MORE ABSTRACT STRUCTURES AND HUGE LISTS OF WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW! This is a slightly off-beat perspective on managing projects. But it's the real stuff!
The Microwave Way to Software Project Management takes you on a fast, entertaining and essential tour through the jungle software project managers can and will walk in to. The ride starts at the mindset of the project manager; he should have one simple mental image on the jobs he has to perform, instead of trying to stuff 500 pages of charting and calculating in his head. He should know the flow of stakes.
For a lot of readers one conclusion still comes as a big surprise: doing projects is a peoples business. It�s all about keeping everyone involved in the project happy by supporting their stakes. The trouble with stakes is, no one tells you what they are. You have to guess, negotiate, anticipate and manipulate to get passed the requirements directly through the fears and wishes of people. Software project management is more about psychology than technology.
This book presents how in the real world of enterprises the �traditional� techniques of project management, like Gantt-charting, can be used as communications techniques to keep people happy. The Microwave Way is not about knowing you have a deadline, but about how to move it. Naming a date is easy, telling you cannot make it, is the real job.
Bas started writing The Microwave Way as his personal vendetta against all mornings waking up with trouble about a project. It originally appeared on the internet as a course on software project management at SoftwareProjects?.org. While writing the content he kept one thing in mind: �if you have one day to talk about software project management, what would you tell?� He surely wouldn�t be yapping about Great Graphs. This book is an upgraded version from the original internet publication at SoftwareProjects?.org.
Bas de Baar works as a project manager within the publishing industry. He holds a degree in Business Informatics and lives currently with his wife in Zandvoort, The Netherlands. For more details about him and the book, you can visit his website at
The Microwave Way to Software Project Management by Bas de Baar ISBN 0-595-22711-2Testing is fun
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