B.
Tech - CSE R23 Regulation
III [Link] II Semester
SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT L T P C
23A05603a
(Professional Elective-III) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
This course is designed to enable the students to under stand the fundamental principles of Software
Project management &will also have a good knowledge of the responsibilities of a project manager
and how to handle them.
Course Out comes:
After completion of the course, students will be able to
• Describe the fundamentals of Project Management
• Recognize and use Project Scheduling Techniques
• Familiarize with Project Control Mechanisms
• Under stand Team Management
• Recognize the importance of Project Documentation and Evaluation
UNIT-I Lecture9Hrs
Conventional Software Management:The water fall model, conventional software Management
performanceEvolution of Software Economics: software Economics. Pragmatic Software Cost
Estimation Improving Software Economics: Reducing Software Product Size, Improving Software
Processes, Improving Team Effectiveness, Improving Automation, Achieving Required Quality ,Peer
Inspections.
UNIT-II Lecture9Hrs
The old way and the new: The principles of convention al software Engineering, principles of modern
software management, transitioning to aniter ative process.
Lifecycle phases: Engineering and production stages, inception, Elaboration, construction, transition
phases.
Artifacts of the process: The artifact sets, Management artifacts, Engineering artifacts, programmatic
artifacts
UNIT-III Lecture 9Hrs
Work Flows of the process: Software process work flows, Inter Trans work [Link] points of the
Process: Major Mile Stones, Minor Milestones, Periodic status assessments. Iterative Process Planning:
work break down structures, planning guidelines, cost and schedule estimating, Iteration planning
process, Pragmatic planning
UNIT-IV Lecture9Hrs
Process Automation:Automation Building Blocks,The Project Environment.
Project Control and Process instrumentation: The sevencore Metrics, Management indicators, quality
indicators Tailoring the Process: Process discriminants. Managing people and organizing teams.
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UNIT-V Lecture9Hrs
Project Organizations and Responsibilities: Line - of-Business Organizations, Project Organizations,
evolution of Organizations.
Future Software Project Management: modern Project Profiles, Next generation Software economics,
modern process stransitions.
Case Study: The Command Center Processing and Display System-Replacement(CCPDS-R)
Text books:
1. Software Project Management, Walker Royce,Pearson Education,2012
2. BobHughes,MikeCotterellandRajibMall―SoftwareProjectManagement‖,6thEdition,
Mc Graw Hill Edition, 2017
Reference Books:
1. PankajJalote,―SoftwareProjectManagementinpractice‖,5thEdition,PearsonEducation,
2017.
2. Murali [Link],Thomas [Link] Jr.‖Mastering Software Project Management: Best
Practices, Tools and Techniques‖, [Link] Publishing, 2010
3. SanjayMohapatra,―SoftwareProjectManagement‖,CengageLearning,2011
Online Learning Resources:
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