MG6088 SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT | syllabus (ELECTIVE-V)

MG6088     SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT L T P C 3 0 0 3

                                                                                               

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    (9)

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    (9)

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    (9)

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    (9)

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    (9)

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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