SMEC-R22 B.
Tech CSE Syllabus
St. Martin's Engineering College
UGC Autonomous
NBA & NAAC A+ Accredited
Dhulapally, Secunderabad-500 100
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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
SOFTWARE PROCESS & PROJECT MANAGEMENT
(PROFESSIONAL ELECTIVE – V)
IV B. TECH- I SEMESTER
Course Code Programme Hours/Week Credits Maximum Marks
L T P C CIE SEE Total
CS755PE B. Tech
3 0 0 3 40 60 100
COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. To acquire knowledge on software process management.
2. To acquire managerial skills for software project development.
3. To understand software economics.
COURSE OUTCOMES
1. Understand the software process change, assessment, project plans and Quality
Standards.
2. Examine the life cycle phases, artifacts, workflows and checkpoints of a process.
3. Design and develop software products using conventional and modern principles of
software project management.
4. Identify the new project management process and practices.
UNIT-I SOFTWARE PROCESS MATURITY Classes: 12
Software Process Maturity: Software maturity Framework, Principles of Software Process
Change, Software Process Assessment, The Initial Process, The Repeatable Process, The
Defined Process, The Managed Process, The Optimizing Process, Process Reference Models
Capability Maturity Model (CMM), CMMI, PCMM, PSP TSP).
SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
UNIT-II Classes: 12
RENAISSANCE
Software Project Management Renaissance: Conventional Software Management, Evolution
of Software Economics, Improving Software Economics, Life-Cycle Phases and Process
artifacts
Engineering and Production stages, inception phase, elaboration phase, construction phase,
transition phase, artifact sets, management artifacts, engineering artifacts and pragmatic
artifacts, model-based software architectures.
SMEC-R22 [Link] CSE Syllabus
WORKFLOWS AND CHECKPOINTS OF
UNIT-III Classes: 12
PROCESS
Workflows and Checkpoints of process: Software process workflows, Iteration workflows,
Major milestones, minor milestones, periodic status assessments, Process Planning Work
breakdown structures, Planning guidelines, cost and schedule estimating process, iteration
planning process, Pragmatic planning.
UNIT-IV PROJECT ORGANIZATIONS Classes: 12
Project Organizations: Line-of- business organizations, project organizations, evolution of
organizations, process automation. Project Control and process instrumentation, The seven-core
metrics, management indicators, quality indicators, life-cycle expectations, Pragmatic software
metrics, metrics automation.
UNIT-V CASE STUDY Classes: 12
CCPDS-R Case Study and Future Software Project Management Practices, Modern Project
Profiles, Next-Generation software Economics, Modern Process Transitions.
TEXT BOOKS
1. Managing the Software Process, Watts S. Humphrey, Pearson Education
2. Software Project Management, Walker Royce, Pearson Education
REFERENCE BOOKS
1. An Introduction to the Team Software Process, Watts S. Humphrey, Pearson
Education, 2000
2. Process Improvement essentials, James R. Persse, O’Reilly, 2006
3. Software Project Management, Bob Hughes & Mike Cotterell, fourth edition, TMH,
2006
4. Applied Software Project Management, Andrew Stellman & Jennifer Greene,
O’Reilly, 2006.
5. Software Engineering Project Management, Richard H. Thayer & Edward Yourdon,
2nd edition, Wiley India, 2004.
6. Agile Project Management, Jim Highsmith, Pearson education, 2004.
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