SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT: THE MANAGER'S VIEW

Recent surveys indicate that software projects have still high failure rates. In order to increase the odds of success, we have to identify the challenges and determine the causes. Management issues, rather than technological issues, are mostly the causes of these failures. We identified 17 possible areas in which the projects may have been challenged. In this study, we present our findings based on a survey on challenges of management of software projects. We conducted the survey in 2007 among 78 software practitioners regarding their last projects. The participants are from different geographical regions of the world.

International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2018

Software Project Management refers to managing a software project effectively as to have a clear understanding of what the software developers are trying to achieve. Software project management is ever changing, ever evolving and never ending process. Since the market demand for software product changes, new project management methodologies and techniques need to be implemented with rapid change in time and market demand. This paper discusses the result of a survey which is conducted in 10 small and medium software enterprises of India. The purpose of the survey is to get an idea about the type of leadership a project manager plays, how a software project manager manages a software project in terms of team management, communication management, risk management, quality management, time management and cost management, how a software project manager manages the communication between project members and clients and finally the output of a software project in terms of schedule and budget.

IEEE Software, 2015

Abstract: Project management is the art of matching a project’s goals, tasks, and resources to accomplish a goal as needed. We say “as needed” because one has limited time, money, and resources (human and machinery) with which to accomplish a goal. One can think of a project as a process. Preliminary investigation examines project feasibility. A feasibility study is the analysis of a problem to determine if it can be solved effectively. The results determine whether the solution should be implemented or not. Planning provides a road map for the software development process. It is probably the most time-consuming project management Activity. It is a continuous activity from initial concept through to system delivery. Plans must be regularly revised as new information becomes available. Schedule is a vital project management attribute in a market driven economy where time to market is critical to success. It takes an important role in the project planning activity. Individual projects are likely to differ considerably but following some classic project life cycle models. And the planning is pointless unless the execution of plan is monitored. Keywords: Project, Management, Feasibility, Planning, Scheduling Title: Software Project Management – A Successive Process That Bring a New System Author: JOYDEEP KUNDU International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research ISSN 2348-1196 (print), ISSN 2348-120X (online) Research Publish Journals

2007

One of the key factors influencing project success or failure is project management. Unfortunately, effective management of software projects is not in practice; what is actually being practiced varies significantly from what is advised in the available literature. In order to improve performance in the field of software project management, there is a dire need to formally educate prospective project managers in both the theoretical and practical aspects of managing software projects. This paper focuses on the formulation and execution of Practicum in Software Project Management, a graduate course that aids students in learning practical aspects of software project management. This course has been a part of the Masters in Software Project Management curriculum at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES), Lahore, Pakistan since 2001. We discuss the course in light of the major software project management activities recommended in literature. A comparison of the course with the Portfolio, Program and Project Management Maturity Model (P3M3) has been done to allow us to 1) assess the maturity of this course in terms of software engineering project management processes, and 2) assist us in identifying and highlighting the areas needing further improvement in terms of teaching, practice and industry needs. The comparison is based on the key process areas applicable to our course and shows that Practicum in Software Project Management is 90% capable at the Repeatable and 81% capable at the Defined levels of the P3M3.

2012

Software (SW) development is a very tough task which requires a skilled project leader for its success. If the project leader is not skilled enough then project may fail. In the real world of SW engineering 65% of the SW projects fail to meet their objectives as in [1]. The main reason is lack of training of the project mangers. This extreme ratio of failure can be reduced by teaching SW project management (SPM) to the future project managers in the practical manner, so that they may be skillful enough to handle the project in a better way. This paper intends to propose a model to be used to teach SPM to the student of SW engineering to reduce the failure rate of projects.

Proceedings 1996 International Conference Software Engineering: Education and Practice

Many computing courses teach a little project managementoften the concepts ore cursorily introduced in Systems Analysis. IVhat tends to be taught though, is just the 'plnnning ' of projects. Gantt and PERT charts are drmvn, rarely using project manogement sofiare, to produce a list of the project tasks. A major aspect of project ttianagement is, however, the ongoing management of the projectkeeping the project on time and within hudget. This paper describes research conducted by the authors into some approaches to the tenchirig ofthese concepts. LVith the growing interest in project i~innag~'~nent in the IT communi& we suggest that the tksigriers oj' tertiary computing courses should give renewed consideration to the way in which the teaching ofproject itinriageiirent is undertaken. In particulnr, we atfvocnte the construction of student nssignrnents designed to trinke use of project management software to handle the ongoing management of projects.

Proceedings of the 1999 ACM symposium on Applied computing, 1999

Sofrware project development includes a number of activities that result in a delivered product (software). As software becomes more and more expensive to develop, project management has been recognised as a difficult task in practice. There are a lot of unpredictable factors existing in the so/hare development cycle that have become contributing factors to this problem. This paper gives an overview of the present state of the art of the software development projects. Moreover, a framework is proposed to help project management to get better understanding and make all activities running on schedule.

Evaluating, monitoring, and improving the effectiveness of project management can contribute to successful acquisition of software systems. In this dissertation, we introduce a quantitative metric for gauging the effectiveness of managing a software-development project. The metric may be used to evaluate and monitor project management effectiveness in software projects by project managers, technical managers, executive managers, project team leaders and various experts in the project organization. It also has the potential to be used to quantify the effectiveness improvement efforts on project management areas. The metric is validated by conducting survey studies on software projects from public and private sectors. A statistical analysis of sixteen surveys on software projects, spanning small to large development projects, indicated that there is a strong positive correlation with software project success ratings provided by study participants and project management effectiveness measurements. Other contributions of this research include identification of approaches for measuring project management effectiveness of software projects, establishment of theories on project management and on project management effectiveness measurement, and the introduction and validation of a framework for software project management.