Chapter 32. Legal Issues in Software

This book has consistently emphasized the 34 competencies needed to be a successful software project manager. Along with the competencies, the idea of the software development life cycle has been consistently presented as a mechanism for framing where the reader is in the overall process of developing quality software. Legal issues in software are divided in the same three competency categories: product development techniques, project management skills, and people management skills.

The legal profession has a multitude of taxonomies for framing specific areas of legal expertise. Simplifying this to the three groups for project management practitioners is more effective in relating to the process of software ...

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