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Software Project Management

This document outlines the objectives and content of a course on software project management. The course covers topics like project evaluation and planning, project life cycles and effort estimation, activity planning and risk management, project management and control, and staffing in software projects. Some key techniques discussed include software cost estimation, project scheduling using critical path method and PERT, earned value analysis, and managing people and communication in project teams. The overall aim is to teach principles of managing software development projects.

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Software Project Management

This document outlines the objectives and content of a course on software project management. The course covers topics like project evaluation and planning, project life cycles and effort estimation, activity planning and risk management, project management and control, and staffing in software projects. Some key techniques discussed include software cost estimation, project scheduling using critical path method and PERT, earned value analysis, and managing people and communication in project teams. The overall aim is to teach principles of managing software development projects.

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MG6088 SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT LTPC3 0 03

OBJECTIVES:

To outline the need for Software Project Management

To highlight different techniques for software cost estimation and activity planning.

UNIT I PROJECT EVALUATION AND PROJECT PLANNING

Importance of Software Project Management – Activities Methodologies – Categorization of


Software Projects – Setting objectives – Management Principles – Management Control – Project
portfolio Management – Cost-benefit evaluation technology – Risk evaluation – Strategic program
Management – Stepwise Project Planning.

UNIT II PROJECT LIFE CYCLE AND EFFORT ESTIMATION

Software process and Process Models – Choice of Process models - mental delivery – Rapid
Application development – Agile methods – Extreme Programming – SCRUM – Managing interactive
processes – Basics of Software estimation – Effort and Cost estimation techniques – COSMIC Full
function points - COCOMO II A Parametric Productivity Model - Staffing Pattern.

UNIT III ACTIVITY PLANNING AND RISK MANAGEMENT

Objectives of Activity planning – Project schedules – Activities – Sequencing and scheduling –


Network Planning models – Forward Pass & Backward Pass techniques – Critical path (CRM) method
– Risk identification – Assessment – Monitoring – PERT technique – Monte Carlo simulation –
Resource Allocation – Creation of critical patterns – Cost schedules.

UNIT IV PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL

Framework for Management and control – Collection of data Project termination – Visualizing
progress – Cost monitoring – Earned Value Analysis- Project tracking – Change control- Software
Configuration Management – Managing contracts – Contract Management.

UNIT V STAFFING IN SOFTWARE PROJECTS

Managing people – Organizational behavior – Best methods of staff selection – Motivation – The
Oldham-Hackman job characteristic model – Ethical and Programmed concerns – Working in teams –
Decision making – Team structures – Virtual teams – Communications genres – Communication
plans. TOTAL: 45 PERIODS OUTCOMES: At the end of the course the students will be able to
practice Project Management principles while developing a software.

TEXTBOOK: 1. Bob Hughes, Mike Cotterell and Rajib Mall: Software Project Management – Fifth
Edition, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2012.

REFERENCES: 1. Robert K. Wysocki “Effective Software Project Management” – Wiley


Publication,2011. 2. Walker Royce: “Software Project Management”- Addison-Wesley, 1998. 3.
Gopalaswamy Ramesh, “Managing Global Software Projects” – McGraw Hill Education (India),
Fourteenth Reprint 2013.

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