Teachers win? Winning techniques for managing outsourced and offshore projects, from procurement and maintenance of risk mitigation Use RUP to implement best practice project management throughout the software development life cycle Overcome key management challenges, from changing requirements to managing user expectations Hands-On, Start-to-Finish Guide to Managing Software Projects with the IBM Rational Unified Process This is the definitive guide to project management software development with IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP). This? From the trenches? Whatever your role or the RUP experience, you? Will learn how to Simplify and streamline the management of any large-scale or outsourced project Overcoming the challenges of the use of RUP in software project management Optimize software procurement and supplier relationships, from the Request for Proposal (RFP) and contracts for delivery Staff high-performance project teams and project management office Establish productive, consistent development environment Run effective project kickoffs Systematically identify and reduce project risk Managing the technical and business challenges of the changing needs Organize iterations and testing in a phased development process Transition new systems into service: from managing expectations to migrating data Plan system maintenance and implement effective change control Learn all you can from project post-mortems and place? Lessons in practice