With Effect From the Academic Year 2013-14

BIT 459                                            

SOFIWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
(Elective-V)

UNIT-I

Conventional Software Management: The waterfall model, conventional software Management performance, Evolution of Software Economics, Improving Software Economics: Reducing Software product size. The old way and the new: The principles of conventional software Engineering, principles of modern software management, transitioning to an iterative process.

UNIT-II

Life cycle phases: Engineering and production stages, inception, Elaboration, construction, transition phases. Artifacts of the process: The artifact sets, Management artifacts, Engineering artifacts, pragmatic artifacts, Work Flows of the process, Checkpoints of the process.

UNIT-III

Iterative Process Planning: work breakdown structures, planning guidelines, cost and schedule estimating, Iteration planning process, Pragmatic planning, Project Organizations and Responsibilities: Line-of-Business Organizations, Project Organizations, evolution of Organizations.

UNIT-IV

Project Control and Process instrumentation: The seven core Metrics, Management indicators, quality indicators, Tailoring the Process: Process discriminants.Managing people and organizing teams.

UNIT-V

Future Software Project Management: modern Project Profiles, Next generation Software economics, modern process transitions. Process improvement and mapping to the CMM.

Suggested Reading:

1. Walker Royce, Software Project Management: A Unified Framework, Pearson Education 1998
2. Bob Hughes and Mike Cotterell – Software Project Management, 4th Edition – Tata McGraw Hill – 2006
3. Pankaj Jalote, Software Project Management, Pearson Education – 2002