MG6088 Software Project Management Syllabus Semester VIII Elective IT BTECH Anna University

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MG6088                                    SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT                                 L T P C
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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.


OUTCOMES:

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

• 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.