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Course Title: Software Project Management

Course Code (Credit): CS30012 (L-T-P-Cr: 3-0-0-3)


Prerequisites: CS31001
Course Faculty: Dr. Saurabh Bilgaiyan
Course Objectives:
1. Recognize basic concepts and issues of software project management
2. Emphasize successful software projects that support organization's strategic goals
3. Comprehend software quality issues
4. Comprehend software risk issues
5. Analyse SPM tools

Course Contents:

UNIT I : SPM Concepts:


Definition, Components of SPM, Challenges and opportunities, Tools and techniques, Managing human
resource and technical resource, Costing and pricing of projects, Training and development, Project
management techniques.*

UNIT II : Software Measurements:


Monitoring & measurement of SW development, Cost, Size and time metrics, Methods and tools for
metrics, Issues of metrics in multiple projects.*

UNIT III : Software Quality:


Quality in SW development, Quality assurance, Quality standards and certifications, The process and
issues in obtaining certifications, The benefits and implications for the organization and its customers,
Change management.*

UNIT IV :Risk Issues:


The risk issues in SW development and implementation, Identification of risks, Resolving and avoiding
risks, Tools and methods for identifying risk management.*

UNIT V : SPM Tools:


Software project management using Primavera & Redmine, Case study on SPM tools.* *Programming
assignments are mandatory.

Course Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, the students will be able to:
CO1: Identify the job roles of an IT project manager to conduct project planning activities
CO2: Plan to maintain and monitor software projects and processes
CO3: Design and develop project modules and assign resources
CO4: Comprehend, assess, and estimate the cost of risk involved in a project management
CO5: Analyze the tools for risk management
CO6: Design a Case study using SPM tools

Day-wise Plan
Lecture: 3 Hrs/Week Internal Assessment Marks: 50

Tutorial: 0 Hrs/Week End Term Marks: 50

Practical: 0 Credits: 3

Topics / Coverage Unit-wise CO Lecture


mapping No
Why is software project management important?, 1
What is a project?, Software projects versus other
types of project, Definition of SPM
Components of SPM: Activities covered by software 2
project management Plans, Tools and techniques:
methods and methodologies
Categorization of software projects, Challenges and 3
opportunities: Project success and failure,
What is management? Management control.
Managing human resource and technical 4
resource:Project Portfolio Management, Costing and
pricing of projects: Cost-benefit Evaluation, Risk UNIT I : SPM
Concepts
evaluation
Managing Allocation of Resources, Benefits CO: 1 5
Management, Training and development CO: 2
CO: 3
An Overview of Project Planning/Project management 6,7,8
techniques: Introduction to Step Wise project
Planning:
Step 0: Select project,
Step 1: Identify project scope and objectives,
Step 2: Identify project infrastructure
Step-3: Analysis of project Characteristics,
Step 4: Identify project products and activities 9,10,11
Step 5: Estimate effort for each activity,
Step 6: Identify activity risks,
Step 7: Allocate resources 12,13,
Step 8: Review/publicize plan, 14
Steps 9 and 10: Execute plan/lower levels of planning

Monitoring & measurement of SW development: 15


Software Effort Estimation:Introduction, Where are
estimates done?, Problems with over- and
underestimates, The basis for software estimating
Methods and tools for Cost, Size and time metrics: UNIT II : 16
Software effort estimation techniques, Bottom-up Software
estimating, The top-down approach and parametric Measurements
models
Expert judgment, Estimating by analogy, Albrecht 17, 18
function point Analysis, Function points Mark II,
COSMIC full function points
19, 20
COCOMO, Issues of metrics in multiple projects
Pre-Mid semester Session (04/12/2024–15/02/2025)
Mid Semester Examination (17/02/2025 – 22/02/2025)
Mid Sem Syllabus (Unit 1 and Unit 2)
Post-Mid semester Session (23/02/2025 – 11/04/2025)

Quality in SW development, The place of software UNIT III : 21


quality in project planning, Quality assurance, Quality Software Quality
standards and certifications, The process and issues in
obtaining certifications
The importance of software quality: The benefits and 22, 23
implications for the organization and its customers,
Defining software quality, ISO 9126, Product versus
process quality.
Process capability models, SEI-CMM, Techniques to 24,25
enhance software quality, TestingQuality plans,
Change management

Risk, Categories of risk, A framework for dealing with 26


risk, Steps in risk management
Risk identification, Risk assessment, Risk planning, 27
UNIT IV :Risk
Risk management Issues
Evaluating risks to the schedule, Applying the PERT 28,29
technique, Monte Carlo simulation, Critical chain CO: 4
CO: 5
concepts

Software project management using Primavera & UNIT V : SPM 30,32


Redmine Tools
33-36
CO: 6

Case study on SPM tools

End Semester Examination (12/04/2025 – 22/04/2025)

Textbooks:
1. Sanjay Mohapatra, “Software Project Management”
2. Richard H. Thayer, “Software Engineering Project Management”, Second Edition, John Wiley &
Sons,2001.
3. Royce, Walker, “Software Project Management”, First Edition, Pearson Education, 1998.

Reference Books:
1. Kelker S. A., “Software Project Management”, Third Edition,PHI, 2003
2. Kan, Stephen H., “Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering”, Addison-Wesley
LongmanPublishing Co. Inc., 2002.
3. Galin, Daniel, “Software Quality Assurance: From Theory to Implementation”, Addison-Wesley,2004.

Internal Assessment : Activity Based Continuous Evaluation (30 Marks) + Mid Semester (20 Marks)

Activity 1 Pre- 15 Marks should be communicated to the All Activities should be some kind of analytical
Midsem (15 students before Mid Semester Starts. exercise/test.
Activity 2 Marks)
The minimum number of activities should be 4,
Activity 3 Post- 30 Marks should be communicated to the However, Faculty members can conduct more
Midsem (15 students before Mid Semester Starts. than 4 Activities.
Activity 4 Marks)

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