JNTUH B.Tech 4th year (4-1) Software Project Management gives you detail information of Software Project Management (Elective – II) R13 syllabus It will be help full to understand you complete curriculum of the year.
Objectives
The main goal of software development projects is to create a software system with a predetermined functionality and quality in a given time frame and with given costs. For achieving this goal, models are required for determining target values and for continuously controlling these values. This course focuses on principles, techniques, methods & tools for model-based management of software projects, assurance of product quality and process adherence (quality assurance), as well as experience-based creation & improvement of models (process management).
The goals of the course can be characterized as follows:
- Understanding the specific roles within a software organization as related to project and process management
- Understanding the basic infrastructure competences (e.g., process modeling and measurement)
- Understanding the basic steps of project planning, project management, quality assurance, and process management and their relationships
UNIT-I
Conventional Software Management: The waterfall model, conventional software Management performance. Evolution of Software Economics: Software Economics, pragmatic software cost estimation.
UNIT-II
Improving Software Economics: Reducing Software product size, improving software processes, improving team effectiveness, improving automation, Achieving required quality, peer inspections. The old way and the new: The principles of conventional software engineering, principles of modern software management, transitioning to an iterative process.
UNIT- III
Life cycle phases: Engineering and production stages, inception, Elaboration, construction, transition phases. Artifacts of the process: The artifact sets, Management artifacts, Engineering artifacts, programmatic artifacts. Model based software architectures: A Management perspective and technical perspective.
TEXT BOOKS
- Software Project Management, Walker Royce, Pearson Education.
- Software Project Management, Bob Hughes & Mike Cotterell, fourth edition,Tata Mc-Graw Hill.
REFERENCE BOOKS
- Applied Software Project Management, Andrew Steilman & Jennifer Greene,O’ReiIIy, 2006
- Head First PMP, Jennifer Greene & Andrew Steliman, O’ReilIy,2007
- Software Engineering Project Managent, Richard H. Thayer & Edward Yourdon, second edition, Wiley India, 2004.
- Agile Project Management, Jim Highsmith, Pearson education, 2004
- The art of Project management, Scott Berkun, O’Reilly, 2005.
- Software Project Management in Practice, Pankaj Jalote, Pearson Ed ucation,2002.
Outcomes
At the end of the course, the student shall be able to:
- Describe and determine the purpose and impoance of project management from the perspectives of planning, tracking and completion of project.
- Compare and differentiate organisation structures and project structures.
- Implement a project to manage project schedule, expenses and resources with the application of suitable project management tools.
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