Introduction to S/W project management, S/W project management competencies, responsibilities of a software project manager, Software process, S/W process models, project evaluation and programme management, project planning, project organization and team structures. (7 hours)

Estimation Techniques: S/W size estimation, estimation of effort & duration. COCOMO models, Putnam’s work, Jensen’s model, Halstead’s software Science. (8 hours)

Activity planning: Dependency & scheduling, CPM, PERT, Gantt Chart, staffing, Organizing a software engineering project. (7 hours)

Risk management, Resource Allocation, Monitoring & controlling S/W projects, S/W configuration management, (7 hours)

Managing Contracts, S/W quality, S/W quality engineering, defining quality requirements, quality standards, practices & conventions, ISO 9000, SEI capability maturity model, PSP, six sigma. (7 hours)

To learn the basic project attributes such as size, effort, cost etc.

To get an overview of the project planning activities, project monitoring and controlling activities and organization of the software project management plan document.

To learn different project estimation and scheduling techniques.

To know risk management, resource management, configuration management, contract management and different quality standards and models.

After reading this subject, students will be able to:
Learn the actual responsibilities of a software project manager, apply different project evaluation techniques, and make proper project planning.



5. Handle various project risks and configuration management.

Apply various project estimation techniques and measure the length, volume, effort, duration and cost of a project.

Schedule the different project activities using CPM and PERT and use the Gantt chart.

Manage various risks, allocate different resources properly among various resources, monitor and control various projects, and handle configuration management properly.

Manage different contracts, ensure good quality of software projects, learn different quality standards such as ISO 9001, 9002, 9003, six sigma, use different quality models such as SEI capability maturity model, PSP, etc.

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R. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner’s approach, McGraw Hill , 2005

JSS, IST, IEEE Transactions on Software Engg., International Conference on Software Engg.