Günther Ruhe holds an Industrial Research Chair in Software Engineering at the Uni­versity of Calgary. His main research interests are in the areas of product release planning, software project management, empirical software engineering and search-based software engineering. He is a Senior member of IEEE and a member of the ACM. In addition, he is the founder and CEO of Expert Decisions Inc., a University of Calgary spin-off company created in 2003.Claes Wohlin is Professor of Software Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Tech­nology, Sweden and a guest professor at Shandong University at Weihai in China. His main research interests include empirical methods and studies, software management, agile methods, software metrics, software process assessment and improvement, requirements engineering, software quality and global software engineering. He is a Senior member of IEEE and in 2011, he was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

• 1 Software Project Management: Setting the Context.- Part I — Fundamentals.- 2 Rethinking Success in Software Projects: Looking Beyond the Failure Factors.- 3 Cost Prediction and Software Project Management.- 4 Human Resource Allocation and Scheduling for Software Project Management.- 5 Software Project Risk and Opportunity Management.- Part II — Supporting Areas.- 6 Model-based Quality Management of Software Development Projects.- 7 Supporting Project Management through Integrated Management of System and Project Knowledge.- 8 A Framework for Implementing Product Portfolio Management in Software Business.- 9 Managing Global Software Projects.- 10 Motivating Software Engineers Working in Virtual Teams across the Globe.- Part III — New Paradigms.- 11 Agile Project Management.- 12 Distributed Project Management.- 13 Management and Coordination of Free/Open Source Projects.- 14 Inner Source Project Management.- Part IV — Emerging Techniques.- 15 Search-based Software Project Management.- 16 Social Media Collaboration in Software Projects.- 17 Process Simulation – A Tool for Software Project Managers?.- 18 Occam’s Razor and Simple Software Project Management.

Günther Ruhe holds an Industrial Research Chair in Software Engineering at the Uni­versity of Calgary. His main research interests are in the areas of product release planning, software project management, empirical software engineering and search-based software engineering. He is a Senior member of IEEE and a member of the ACM. In addition, he is the founder and CEO of Expert Decisions Inc., a University of Calgary spin-off company created in 2003.Claes Wohlin is Professor of Software Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Tech­nology, Sweden and a guest professor at Shandong University at Weihai in China. His main research interests include empirical methods and studies, software management, agile methods, software metrics, software process assessment and improvement, requirements engineering, software quality and global software engineering. He is a Senior member of IEEE and in 2011, he was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

• 1 Software Project Management: Setting the Context.- Part I — Fundamentals.- 2 Rethinking Success in Software Projects: Looking Beyond the Failure Factors.- 3 Cost Prediction and Software Project Management.- 4 Human Resource Allocation and Scheduling for Software Project Management.- 5 Software Project Risk and Opportunity Management.- Part II — Supporting Areas.- 6 Model-based Quality Management of Software Development Projects.- 7 Supporting Project Management through Integrated Management of System and Project Knowledge.- 8 A Framework for Implementing Product Portfolio Management in Software Business.- 9 Managing Global Software Projects.- 10 Motivating Software Engineers Working in Virtual Teams across the Globe.- Part III — New Paradigms.- 11 Agile Project Management.- 12 Distributed Project Management.- 13 Management and Coordination of Free/Open Source Projects.- 14 Inner Source Project Management.- Part IV — Emerging Techniques.- 15 Search-based Software Project Management.- 16 Social Media Collaboration in Software Projects.- 17 Process Simulation – A Tool for Software Project Managers?.- 18 Occam’s Razor and Simple Software Project Management.