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Hollywood Secrets of Project Management Success

Implement your own "studio system" - deliver great performance!

What can Hollywood´s hundred years of filmmaking experience teach the software industry?

Like movies, software projects can be tremendously complex, creative, and high risk. But Hollywood has the superior track record for delivering projects within budget, schedule, and spec.

Whether you´re new to project management, or a software-industry veteran seeking fresh perspective, you´ll appreciate this insightful look at the film industry´s best practices. And you´ll see how to apply them to your own work - for better, more predictable results.

The author - an expert in software engineering and process management - shares what he´s learned from dozens of interviews with film producers and production managers. The consistent takeaway? All production starts and ends with a bankable script of clear business requirements.

• Learn how movie studios use a cohesive system to plan, manage, and measure projects
• Implement a rigorous green light, or approvals, process - with payoffs in better execution
• Use budget to drive project changes, not the reverse
• Treat your stakeholders and end users like associate producers
• Use iterative development - editing dailies and hot costs as you go
• Stick to the script - and yield greater accountability, reliability, and results

About the Author James Persse:

James Persse, PhD, has more than 20 years´ experience in the fields of technology systems design and process improvement, and has written five books. An SEI-authorized CMMI Instructor, certified Six Sigma professional, and ISO 9001:2000 auditor, Dr. Persse specializes in helping Fortune 500 companies design and implement process-improvement programs for software engineering, project management, and other disciplines.