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Suggest: Best Software Project Management Textbook

Posted by ashergm on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @11:01AM
from the self-post dept.

I'm a new instructor teaching a Software Project Management course at a regional college this coming Spring and I've been requested to select the textbook. The audience is made up of grad students across CS, CE and IS majors.I'm looking to provide a mix of classic and new methods which gives a baseline understanding of PMP and Agile (Scrum\Kanban, XP).Any suggestions? (It would be cool if they...

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