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IT Project Management IT-402

The document summarizes the 2nd meeting of the Board of Studies for the Department of Information Technology. It outlines the course details for IT Project Management including the course code, credit hours, objectives, recommended textbooks, and course outline. The course aims to develop project management skills and consists of 5 units covering topics like the project life cycle, planning, scheduling, estimation, staffing, monitoring, quality assurance, and risk management. The overall goal is to enable students to initiate, plan, track, and manage software projects.

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IT Project Management IT-402

The document summarizes the 2nd meeting of the Board of Studies for the Department of Information Technology. It outlines the course details for IT Project Management including the course code, credit hours, objectives, recommended textbooks, and course outline. The course aims to develop project management skills and consists of 5 units covering topics like the project life cycle, planning, scheduling, estimation, staffing, monitoring, quality assurance, and risk management. The overall goal is to enable students to initiate, plan, track, and manage software projects.

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2nd Meeting of Board of Studies Department of Information Technology

Department Information Technology


Course Title IT Project Management
Course Code IT-402
Pre-requisite CS-201 Software Engineering
Credit Hours 3.0
Objectives The purpose of the ITPM course is to develop the skills of the Project
Manager to enable him/her to manage a software project to a
successful conclusion. This course includes the following modules:
• Identify the Process
• Document the Plans
• Track the Progress
• Control the Products
• Cultivate Teamwork.
Recommended Textbooks:
books/reference • Roger S. Pressman “Software Engineering- A practitioner’s
material approach”,7th edition.
• Software Project Management by y Bob Hughes, Mike Cotterell 5th
Edition
• Integrated Approach to Software Engineering by Punkaj Jalote
• Introduction to the Personal Software Porcess by Watts. S.
Humphrey
• Information Technology Project Management: Providing
measurable organizational value by Jack Marchewka, John Wiley
& Sons
Reference Books:
1. Ian Sommerville “Software Engineering”,
2. http://www.columbia.edu/~jm2217/
3. http://www.sei-cmu.edu
4. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, 5th Edition
(PMBOK Guides)
Course Outline
Unit 1 Introduction
Software Project Classification of project types, Scope triangle,
Project risk Vs business value, The S curve .Five phases of project
management life cycle. WBS: Work Breakdown Structure .Estimate
activity duration, five methods of Estimating Activity Duration,
Elapsed Time Vs Productive time. PMI Process Groups & Knowledge
Areas
Unit 2 Project Planning and Project Scheduling
Project Proposal Project Networks: Critical Path Method (CPM),
Build the project network, Analysis of the project network, Network
Analysis, Critical Path Analysis. PERT: GANTT Chart, Using MS-
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Project to draw GANTT chart


Unit 3 Project Metrics & Software Project Estimation
Software Project Metrics: Metrics & Indicators, Software
measurement: Size Oriented Metrics, Function-Oriented Metrics.
Software Project Estimation: Decomposition Techniques, Software
Sizing, Problem-Based Estimation , , Cost Estimation, Size
Estimation: COCOMO Model ,Function Point Analysis
Unit 4 Project Staffing , Project Monitoring and Control
Project Staffing and Personnel Planning,, Software project Teams,
Risk Identification, Analysis and Management, Earned Value
Analysis. Configuration Management, Software Project Monitoring
and Control: Earned Value Analysis for Project Monitoring and
Control.
Unit 5 Project Quality Assurance and Risk Management
Software Project Quality Assurance Plans, SQA Process, Software
Project Quality Standards, Overview of Project Configuration
Management, Project Risk Management

Learning Outcomes:

This course will enable students to initiate Software projects, do the project
scheduling, plan the resources, carry out the staffing, track the progress, apply
software metrics, manage and motivate the team, and manage the crisis situation.

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