This page is for CEOs, company Presidents, Vice Presidents, and other senior managers who are not software professionals and are frustrated and mystified by their software developers' apparent inability to complete software development on time.

"Software is a place where dreams are planted and nightmares are harvested... a world of werewolves and silver bullets." This 1990 quote from Brad Cox* is still the fear of many senior business managers today. How can you, without becoming a software expert, understand the mysterious-seeming world that your software developers sometimes appear to live in?

APS provides short workshops, training, mentoring, and guidance to senior executives to equip them with the basic knowledge and terminology necessary to understand software engineers and to challenge their assertions, recommendations, and decisions. Click HERE to request more information.

Understand:

	Software terms and jargon
	Estimates - how they are made and what they mean
	Questions: what you should ask
	Software Plans - what is often missing?
	Risk Analysis - what might go wrong and what can you do about it?
	What are the early warning signs for a software project in trouble?
	The programmers' mentality - are they any different from other engineers?

* Cox, B. J., Planning the software industrial
revolution, IEEE Software, November 1990.