Managementul proiectelor software
Fundamente și practici în era agenților AI
Software Project Management: Fundamentals and Practices in the Age of AI Agents
What changes in running a software project when much of the code is written by agents.
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About
Software project management at the moment a growing share of code is written by AI coding agents. Starting from Brooks and the Agile Manifesto, the book reexamines Scrum, Kanban, and XP, then follows the shift from vibe coding to agentic engineering: executable specifications and context engineering, industrialized verification and the security of generated code, the micro-team of one or two experts working with agents, estimation when code becomes cheap, and delivery under the AI Act, the Cyber Resilience Act, and NIS2.
Every chapter opens with a real case, argues from data rather than ritual, and ends with self-assessment questions and essay topics.
Contents
translated from Romanian
Foundations
- 1The Software Project and the Evolution of Working MethodsWhat a Software Project Is · Why Software Projects Fail · From Waterfall to Iterative Methods · Brooks: The Mythical Man-Month, the Surgical Team, and the Silver Bullet · The Fourth Transition: From Iterations to Agents
- 2Agile and Lean: Principles That Outlive the ToolsSnowbird, 2001 · The Four Values · The 12 Principles · Lean: Waste, Flow, and Overproduction · The Manifesto Reread in the Age of Agents · Is Agile Obsolete? What the Data Say
- 3Scrum, Kanban, and XP: The Essentials and What ChangesScrum in Brief · Kanban and Flow · XP: Technical Practices as Guardrails · What Changes: AI and Scrum, AI-Native SAFe, and AI-DLC · Choosing a Framework in 2027
Working with Agents
- 4From Vibe Coding to Agentic EngineeringThe Vocabulary: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering · The Autonomy Spectrum: From Reviewing Diffs to Reviewing Evidence · Tool Categories · What the Studies Show · What Practice Shows: The Author's Repositories · Two Worlds and the Multiplier Model
- 5Intent, Specifications, and ContextFrom User Story to Executable Specification · Specification-Driven Development · Context Engineering and Instruction Files · The Decision Log and the Phased Plan · The Backlog for Agents
- 6Industrialized Verification: Quality and SecurityWhere the Bottleneck Moved · The Verification Gap · Designing for Verifiability · Verification by Agents · Security of Generated Code · Definition of Done for Generated Code
- 7The Team of One or Two, with AgentsFrom the Scrum Team to the One-Person Team · The Surgical Team, Revisited · When It Works and When It Does Not · Continuity and Client Trust · The People in the Hybrid Team · How to Become the Person Who Gets an Order of Magnitude
Running the Project
- 8Estimation, Economics, and Measurement When Code Becomes CheapWhy Effort-Based Estimation Breaks · What Still Holds · What We Measure · Project Economics · The One-Person Portfolio · The Project Manager's Work, Done with Agents
- 9Delivery, Governance, and RiskContinuous Delivery as a Safety Mechanism · Testing in Production and the Autonomy–Risk Matrix · Agent Permissions · European Regulation · Intellectual Property and Contracts · The Organization's AI Policy and Regulated Domains · Observability and the Post-Mortem
Appendices
- AEssay Topics
- BThe Essay Guide and the Use of AI Tools
- CTools and Figures at the Time of Writing
Reviews
“Managementul proiectelor software is an original work with a clear thesis, argued from data and honest about the limits of its own evidence. It covers a subject for which Romanian-language teaching literature is only now taking shape, and it prepares students for the way software projects are run today.”
„Managementul proiectelor software este o lucrare originală, cu o teză clară, argumentată cu date și onestă față de limitele propriilor dovezi. Acoperă un subiect pentru care literatura didactică în limba română abia se formează și îi pregătește pe studenți pentru felul în care se lucrează astăzi în proiectele software.”
“A particular merit of the work is the balanced way it handles the contradiction between the rigorous 2025 studies, which measure modest gains or even slowdowns, and the order-of-magnitude gains observed in practice. The author does not pick a side but proposes a reasoned explanation.”
„Un merit deosebit al lucrării este modul echilibrat în care abordează contradicția dintre studiile riguroase din 2025, care măsoară câștiguri modeste sau chiar încetiniri, și câștigurile de un ordin de mărime observate în practică. Autorul nu alege o tabără, ci propune o explicație argumentată.”
Cite
@book{bocan2026projectmanagement,
author = {Bocan, Valer},
title = {Managementul proiectelor software: Fundamente și practici în era agenților AI},
publisher = {Editura Politehnica},
address = {Timișoara},
year = {2026},
pages = {205},
isbn = {978-606-35-0691-8},
language = {romanian},
note = {In press}
}
