Provides coherent, comprehensive, and concise coverage of software project management, discipline and concepts. The first part focuses on the project management life cycle activities, which includes planning, evaluation, scheduling, resource allocation and monitoring with special emphasis on hands-on tools and techniques, models, methods, and documentation. A primer on the SDLC is also provided with the focus on various popular models and paradigms like waterfall and prototyping as well as new trends like agile methods. The second part of the book covers the entire gamut of umbrella activities like risk, cost, quality, configuration, contract, change and people management.