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Software Project Management Essentials

This document discusses management control and stakeholders for software project management. It states that objectives must be set and performance monitored to ensure project success. A project steering committee is typically identified to set, monitor, and modify objectives since there may be multiple user groups and staff involved. The committee has overall authority over project goals. Stakeholders include the project sponsor, team, support staff, customers, users, suppliers and opponents. Effective objectives are concrete, well-defined and have measures of effectiveness to determine success. For the next class, students must propose a real project title and proposal that incorporates the lessons discussed.

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Software Project Management Essentials

This document discusses management control and stakeholders for software project management. It states that objectives must be set and performance monitored to ensure project success. A project steering committee is typically identified to set, monitor, and modify objectives since there may be multiple user groups and staff involved. The committee has overall authority over project goals. Stakeholders include the project sponsor, team, support staff, customers, users, suppliers and opponents. Effective objectives are concrete, well-defined and have measures of effectiveness to determine success. For the next class, students must propose a real project title and proposal that incorporates the lessons discussed.

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Software Project Management

Lecture Two
MGMT CONTROL, STAKEHOLDER
Management
• In general, can be seen as the process of setting
objectives for a system and then monitoring
the system to see what its true performance is.
Objectives
• To have a successful software project, the
manager ‘and the project team members must
know what will constitute success.
• This will make them concentrate on what is
essential to project success.
Project Steering committee
• There might be more than one set of users of a system and there
might be different groups of staff who are involved its development.
• There is a need for well-defined objectives that are accepted by all
these people
• One user group, then a project authority, needs to be identified.
• Such project authority has overall authority over what the project is
to achieve.
• This authority is often held by the project steering committee, which
has overall responsibility for setting, monitoring and modifying
objective.
• The project manager still has responsibility for running the project
on a day-to-day basis, but has to report to the steering committee at
regular intervals.
• Only the steering committee can authorize changes to the project
objectives and resources
Project Stakeholders
• Stakeholders are the people involved in or
affected by project activities
– Stakeholders include
– the project sponsor and project team
– support staff
– customers
– users
– suppliers
– opponents to the project
Measures of Effectiveness

• Effective objectives are concrete and well


defined.
• There should be measures of effectiveness,
which tell us how successful been.
• In order to keep things manageable,
objectives might need to be broken sub-
objectives.
REQUIREMENT SPECIFICATION, PROBLEMS WITH
SOFTWARE PROJECTS
Assignment For Next Lab Class
• Select a project title for this course
• Write a proposal and print the hard copy and
take it for evaluation and comments
• Make sure your project are incorporated what
we have learned today and it should be a real
project.

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