Software Project Secrets: Why Software Projects Fail offers a new path to success in the
software industry. This book reaches out to managers developers and customers who use
industry-standard methodologies but whose projects still struggle to succeed. Author George
Stepanek analyzes the project management methodology itself a critical factor that has thus
far been overlooked. He explains why it creates problems for software development projects and
begins by describing 12 ways in which software projects are different from other kinds of
projects. He also analyzes the project management body of knowledge to discover 10 hidden
assumptions that are invalid in the context of software projects.
