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Leading Culture Change in Your Software Organization: Delivering Results Early [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

~ Rita Chao Hadden (Author) "The following is a real-world scenario often faced by software professionals..." (more)
Key Phrases: key work products, major project concerns, pilot project leaders, Potential Barrier, Understanding the Major Interest Groups, Change Agent Assessment (more...)

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The Effective Way to Produce Improvements for Project Management and Software Engineering! Leading Culture Change in Your Software Organization: Delivering Results Early is the first industry-specific guide to managing change. You ll find today s best strategies for quick wins and long-term gains when managing Software Process Improvement (SPI) and culture change. You ll: Learn how to deliver successful outcomes, using a targeted set of recommended actions, effective leadership, and social and psychological drivers Get first-hand knowledge from organizations that have successfully transformed the work habits and practices of their software professionals Discover techniques that you can apply immediately to maximize project success regardless of your organization s infrastructure or level of technical sophistication.

About the Author

Rita Chao Hadden specializes in software best practices, process improvement, and corporate culture change. She has been a software practitioner, project manager, software engineering process group (SEPG) leader, change agent, Software Engineering Institute authorized lead assessor, software director, and executive. She has provided leadership, coordination, and coaching for more than 75 complex software projects in the private and public sectors. She is currently Director of Software Development at Datatel, Inc., a market leader in Enterprise Resource Planning for higher education.

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Paperback: 424 pages
Publisher: Management Concepts; illustrated edition edition (September 7, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 156726123X
ISBN-13: 978-1567261233
Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

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Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,584,938 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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key work products, major project concerns, pilot project leaders, organization process assets, change blockers, culture change happen, standard software process, escalation date, full credit card numbers, software development policies, software work products, many software organizations, educate your organization, true institutionalization, software development staff, related potential barriers, project work products, culture change initiative, new project approach, software practitioners, software process capability, successful culture change, software engineering process group, action team leader, hest practices

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Potential Barrier, Understanding the Major Interest Groups, Change Agent Assessment, Taking Leadership, Technical Report, New York, Key Frustrations Software, Project Delta, The Agile Manifesto

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4.0 out of 5 stars Best practices that work!, November 1, 2003

By	"crpmconsulting" (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews

If you're involved in any aspect of software implementations, and you desire to improve your product delivery for your user community, then this book is a must have. It offers practical approaches along with useful examples.

What I particularly like is the incremental approach using the five best practices in Chapter 2. The big-bang hammer approaches, which I have lived through and can, relate to in Chapter 4, just don't work!

I have used the author's best practices for my last three projects and the results were very successful: Project 1 - no major bugs found during end user acceptance testing, implemented three days early; Project 2 - implemented on-time with a satisfied user community; Project 3 - again, no showstopper issues during user acceptance resulting in a product that was delivered as expected by the user community. The suggested best practices do in fact work.

This book is my guide and reference for managing software implementations. I highly recommend it!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Practical Ideas to Stimulate Discussion & Get Results, July 14, 2006

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I conducted a survey in our organization based on the material from the "Barriers" chapter of "Leading Culture Change ...". We found barriers and a few "breaches" between the barriers. We presented the book's ideas about dealing with the barriers to our steering committee. It sparked a lively and continuing discussion. It brought problems out on the table, got some senior people to acknowledge the issues and is helping us with solutions. This got us to engage and address some deep misunderstandings (quality and business processes aren't disjoint; planning is more than requirements and a schedule) that might not have come out earlier. Having the material in the book made it easy to create the survey and to focus the resulting discussion.

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