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Project Management

Project management is the structured practice of planning, executing, and closing work to achieve specific goals within budget and time constraints. It involves defining project scope, managing resources, and utilizing methodologies like Agile or Waterfall to turn ideas into deliverables. Key tools include Gantt charts and project management software like Asana or Trello.

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Software Project Management

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Course Title: Software Project Management

Course No: IT306

Nature of the Course: THEORY

Semester: 8

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description

Course Objectives

Course Contents

1. Software Project Basics

5 hrs

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Types of Software Projects

1.3. Classification of software projects: Based on software development life cycle, approach driven, maintenance, web application, agile development

1.4. Approaches to software project management

1.5. Alignment of software engineering methodology with project: management methodology

1.6. The Ad Hoc Methods-based Approach

1.7. The process-Driven Approach

1.8. Comparison between Ad Hoc Approach with the process-driven approach

1.9. Software Project Acquisition

1.10. Writing proposal, negotiating, contract acceptance

2. Tools and Techniques

4 hrs

2.1. Software project planning

2.2. Understanding the why is project needed and needs of project

2.3. Project management plan: resources, skill sets, computer systems

2.4. Risk assessment and management plan

2.5. Create the project plan

4 hrs

3.1. Elements of successful estimate

3.2. Wideband Delphi Estimation

3.3. Other Estimation Techniques

3.4. Evaluation Estimation Problems

4. Project Schedules

5 hrs

4.1. Building the project schedule

4.2. The Work breakdown structure

4.3. Graphic representation of a schedule

4.4. Managing multiple projects

4.5. Schedule to manage commitments

4.6. Evaluation scheduling problems

4 hrs

5.1. Inspections

5.2. Deskchecks

5.3. Walkthroughs

5.4. Code reviews

5.5. Pair Programming

5.6. Inspect to manage commitments

6. Software requirements

5 hrs

6.1. Requirement elicitations

6.3. Software requirement specification

6.4. Change control

7. Design and Programming

4 hrs

7.1. Review the design

7.2. Version control with subversion

7.3. Refactoring

7.4. Unit Testing

7.5. Use automation

8. Software Testing

4 hrs

8.1. Test plans and cases

8.2. Test execution

9. Using Project management effectively

4 hrs

9.1. Understanding change, making change successful

10. Management and leadership

3 hrs

10.1. Take responsibility

10.2. Doing everything out in open

10.3. Manage the organization

10.4. Manage the team

11. Managing an outsourced Project

3 hrs

11.1. Prevent major sources of project failure

11.2. Management issues in outsourced projects

11.3. Collaborate with the Vendor

12. Process Improvement

3 hrs

12.1. Software process improvement

12.2. Moving forward

Reference Books

1.AdnerwStellman, Jennifer Greene, "Applied Software Project management", First edition, O'Reilly Meida
2.Murali K. Chemuturi, Thomas M. CagelyJr, "Mastering software project management" J. Ross Publishing
3.Highes, B. and Cotterell, M., "Software Project Management". McGraw Hill, 1999.
4.Conway, K., "Software Project Management", -From Concept to Deployment", DreamTech Press, 2001
5.Garmus, D. and Herron, D., "Function Point Analysis, Measurement Practices for Successful Software Projects", Addison-Wesley, 2001.

Notes:

Source:

Software Project Basics, Tools and Techniques, Estimation, Project Schedules, Reviews, Software requirements, Design and Programming, Software Testing, Using Project management effectively, Management and leadership, Managing an outsourced Project, Process Improvement

The module aims to provide an overview of the roles, responsibilities and management methods of the software project manager. The course intended to teach students how to develop approaches and styles of management for software projects.

This syllabus follows the official BIM curriculum of Tribhuvan University. In case of any doubt or revision, the university's published syllabus shall be considered authoritative.https://itcollegenepal.com/bachelor-in-information-management-syllabus/