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SOFTWARE PROJECT PLANNINGb SYLLABUS

This document outlines the units of a course on software project planning and management. Unit I covers metrics, software configuration management, and tools. Unit II discusses risk management, project planning and tracking, and project closure. Unit III focuses on software requirements gathering, estimation, and design/development phases. Unit IV examines project management in testing and maintenance phases. Unit V looks at globalization issues, the impact of the internet, and people-focused process models. The course aims to teach important concepts, processes, and techniques for planning, tracking, and managing software projects.

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SOFTWARE PROJECT PLANNINGb SYLLABUS

This document outlines the units of a course on software project planning and management. Unit I covers metrics, software configuration management, and tools. Unit II discusses risk management, project planning and tracking, and project closure. Unit III focuses on software requirements gathering, estimation, and design/development phases. Unit IV examines project management in testing and maintenance phases. Unit V looks at globalization issues, the impact of the internet, and people-focused process models. The course aims to teach important concepts, processes, and techniques for planning, tracking, and managing software projects.

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SOFTWARE PROJECT PLANNING & MANAGEMENT (MTCS042)

UNIT-I:
Metrics: Introduction, The Metrics Roadmap, A Typical Metrics Strategy, What
Should you Measure?, Set Targets and track Them, Understanding and Trying to
minimize variability, Act on data, People and Organizational issues in Metrics
Programs, Common Pitfalls to watch out for in Metrics Programs, Matrices
implementation checklists and tools, Software configuration management:
Introduction, Some Basic Definitions and terminology, the processes and activities
of software configuration management, configuration status accounting,
configuration audit, software configuration management in geographically
distributed teams, Metrics in software configuration management, software
configuration management tools and automation.
UNIT-II
Risk Management: Introduction, What is risk management and why is it
important?, Risk management cycle, Risk identification: common tools and
techniques, Risk Quantifications, Risk Monitoring, Risk Mitigation, Risks and
Mitigation in the context of global project teams, some practical techniques risk
management, Metrics in risk management. Project Planning and Tracking:
Components of Project Planning and Tracking, The “What “ Part of a Project Plan,
The “What Cost “ Part of a Project Plan, The “When “ Part of Project Planning, The
“How “ Part of a Project Planning: Tailoring of Organizational Processes For the
Project, The “ By Whom “ Part of the Project Management Plan : Assigning
Resources, Putting it all together : The Software Management Plan, Activities
Specific to Project Tracking, Interfaces to the Process Database. Project Closure:
When Does Project Closure Happen?. Why Should We Explicitly do a Closure?, An
Effective Closure Process, Issues that Get Discussed During Closure, Metrics for
Project Closure, Interfaces to the Process Database.
UNIT-III:
Software Requirements gathering: Inputs and start criteria for requirements
gathering, Dimensions of requirements gathering, Steps to be followed during
requirements gathering, outputs and quality records from the requirements
phase, skill sets required during requirements phase, differences for a shrink-
wrapped software, challenges during the requirements management phase,
Metrics for requirements phase. Estimation: What is Estimation? when and why is
Estimation done?, the three phases of Estimation, Estimation methodology,
formal models for size Estimation, Translating size Estimate into effort Estimate,
Translating effort Estimates into schedule Estimate, common challenges during
Estimation , Metrics for the Estimation processes. Design and Development
Phases: Some differences in our chosen approach, salient features of design,
evolving an architecture/ blueprint, design for reusability, technology choices/
constraints, design to standards, design for portability, user interface issues,
design for testability, design for diagnose ability, design for maintainability, design
for install ability, inter-operability design, challenges during design and
development phases, skill sets for design and development, metrics for design
and development phases.
UNIT-IV:
Project management in the testing phase: Introduction, What is testing?, what
are the activities that makeup testing?, test scheduling and types of tests, people
issues in testing, management structures for testing in global teams, metrics for
testing phase. Project management in the Maintenance Phase: Introduction,
Activities during Maintenance Phase, management issues during Maintenance
Phase, Configuration management during Maintenance Phase, skill sets for
people in the maintenance phase, estimating size, effort, and people resources
for the maintenance phase, advantages of using geographically distributed teams
for the maintenance phase, metrics for the maintenance phase.
UNIT-V:
Globalization issues in project management: Evolution of globalization,
challenges in building global teams, Models for the execution of global projects,
some effective management techniques for managing global teams. Impact of the
internet on project management: Introduction, the effect of internet on project
management, managing projects for the internet, Effect on the project
management activities. People focused process models: Growing emphasis on
people centric models, people capability maturity model(P-CMM), other people
focused models in the literature, how does an organization choose the models to
use?
REFERENCES:
1. Ramesh Gopalaswamy: “Managing Global Projects ", Tata McGraw Hill, 2013.
2.Watts Humphrey, “Managing the Software Process “, Pearson Education, New
Delhi, 2000 3. Pankaj Jalote, “Software Project Management in practice”, Pearson
Education, New Delhi, 2002.

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