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Software Process and Project Management Syllabus

This document outlines a course on software process and project management. The course objectives are to gain knowledge of software economics, the software development life cycle, project organization, control and instrumentation. The course outcomes are to understand phases of development, analyze milestones and metrics, and design software using project management principles. The course contains 5 units that cover topics like software process maturity models, project management approaches, life cycle phases, workflows, project organization and control.

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Software Process and Project Management Syllabus

This document outlines a course on software process and project management. The course objectives are to gain knowledge of software economics, the software development life cycle, project organization, control and instrumentation. The course outcomes are to understand phases of development, analyze milestones and metrics, and design software using project management principles. The course contains 5 units that cover topics like software process maturity models, project management approaches, life cycle phases, workflows, project organization and control.

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R16 B.TECH CSE.

SOFTWARE PROCESS AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT

(PROFESSIONAL ELECTIVE – III)

B.Tech. IV Year I Sem. LTPC

Course Code: CS734PE 3003

Course Objectives:

 To acquire knowledge on software process management


 To acquire managerial skills for software project development
 To understand software economics

Course Outcomes:

 Gain knowledge of software economics, phases in the life cycle of


software development, project organization, project control and process
instrumentation
 Analyze the major and minor milestones, artifacts and metrics from
management and technical perspective
 Design and develop software product using conventional and modern
principles of software project management

UNIT - I

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).

UNIT - II

Software Project Management Renaissance


Conventional Software Management, Evolution of Software Economics,
Improving Software Economics, The old way and the new way.

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.

UNIT - III

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

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

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

REFERENCES:

1. An Introduction to the Team Software Process, Watts S. Humphrey,


PearsonEducation, 2000 Process Improvement essentials, James R. Persse,
O’Reilly, 2006

2. Software Project Management, Bob Hughes & Mike Cotterell, fourth edition,
TMH, 2006

3. Applied Software Project Management, Andrew Stellman & Jennifer


Greene,O’Reilly, 2006.

4. Head First PMP, Jennifer Greene & Andrew Stellman, O’Reilly, 2007

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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