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Walker Royce’s Software Project Management: A Unified Framework is a comprehensive book on new management structure, which suits and addresses the challenges of today’s software development and projects. The book comprises of practical solutions by considering the most practiced management styles, priorities and other such parameters. It also discusses the transition stages in the organization of modern processes in detail. Walker also explains how technology, people and other factors like time, quality and economy influence project management in the current trends and scenarios. Other main topics explained include software management renaissance, evolution, framework, and conventional ways of software management, life-cycle, checkpoints and workflow of the process. This book is essential for Computer Science and Information Science engineering students, and also software professionals and managers, for better yielding ways of software management. About Walker Royce Walker Royce is the Vice President of IBM Worldwide Rational Lab Services. He graduated from the University of California and completed his masters in Information and Control Engineering from the University of Michigan. He was previously working at TRW Electronics & Defense. Walker is the recipient of TRW Chairman’s Award and was also named a TRW Technical Fellow. His areas of interest and expertise are distributed architecture middleware, iterative software processes and agile development.