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| Course Category: |
Computer Science/Information Technology |
| Course Level: |
Undergraduate |
| Credit Hours: |
3 |
| Pre-requisites: |
CS101 CS201 CS403 CS504 CS605 |
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Course Synopsis
This course gives you the overview about what Software Project Management actually is? What tools and techniques you will use to manage your project? Similarly, risk management, quality assurance activities, and project planning, scheduling activities will also be covered in this course.
Course Learning Outcomes
After reading this course you should be able to:
- Revising the core concepts of Software Project Management
- Identifying the essential software development models, problems areas, domain requirements, design, and quality w.r.t management fundamentals concepts
- Identifying different software processes, initiating the processes and applying planning process task
- Identifying project planning objectives, tools and techniques for SDP, and elements of SDP
- Discussion of life cycle models for an organization, traditional structures of business organization, and organizational planning
- Discussing Estimation concepts, decomposition techniques, and tools
- Using WBS as a Project Management tool with sample and identifying its major steps
- Analyzing the core concepts Scheduling and its usage of its tools
- Discussing fundamental concepts of Risk and Change Management
- Revising the basic concepts of Quality
- Using Microsoft Project 2000 tool as practice of making tasks, activities and Gantt charts
Course Contents
Introduction to Project Management. Goals of Project management. Project Characteristics. Project Dimensions. Project Life Cycle. Software Development Lifecycle Models. Costs and Cost Management. Project vs. Program Management. Trade-Off Triangle. Project Management Skills. PM’s Knowledge Areas. Team leader. Leaders and Managers. Project Organization. Software Development Fundamentals. Management Fundamentals. Technical Fundamentals. Software Process Vs Software Engineering. PM Process Groups. Planning Process Tasks. Project Planning Steps. The Software Development Plan (SDP).Estimation. Decomposition Techniques. Estimation Tools. Work Breakdown Structure. Scheduling. Risk and Change Management. Software Quality. Application Tools (Microsoft Project 2000). Commissioning & Migration.
Course Related Links
www.e-programme.com
www.4pm.com
www.bettermanagement.com
www.easyprojects.net
www.managementhelp.com
www.mapnp.org
www.maxwideman.com
www.michaelgreer.com
www.pmtoday.co.uk
www.processimpact.com
www.projectability.co.uk
www.projectconnections.com
www.softwareprojects.org
www.spmn.com
The Primavera is a very helpful tool for the project management at it's best. It helps the project manager to schedule tasks and manage resources effectively
The function point modeler a helpful tool for the effective cost estimation on the basis of line of code
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