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1.3 Overview of The Software Projects

The document provides an overview of project planning, emphasizing the unique challenges of software projects compared to other types, such as invisibility, complexity, and the need for conformity. It highlights the importance of project management in ensuring timely delivery, risk management, quality improvement, resource utilization, and stakeholder satisfaction, encapsulated in the acronym 'TRIPS'. Additionally, it outlines the three key processes in Software Project Management (SPM): feasibility study, planning, and execution.

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1.3 Overview of The Software Projects

The document provides an overview of project planning, emphasizing the unique challenges of software projects compared to other types, such as invisibility, complexity, and the need for conformity. It highlights the importance of project management in ensuring timely delivery, risk management, quality improvement, resource utilization, and stakeholder satisfaction, encapsulated in the acronym 'TRIPS'. Additionally, it outlines the three key processes in Software Project Management (SPM): feasibility study, planning, and execution.

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Unit 1: An Overview of Project

Planning

BIT 7th Sem


By: Er. Sudarshan Sharma
Faculty: Padmakanya Multiple Campus

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Software Projects versus Other Types of Project
Software projects are difficult than other project due to
• Invisibility
• With software progress is not immediately visible like construction projects.
• SPM can be seen as the process of making the invisible visible
• Complexity
• S/W projects contain more complexity than other project as more cost spent on it.
• Conformity
• Software developers have to conform to the requirements of human clients. The
cause of s/w quality is not only the cause of them
• Organizations have failures in
• decision-making,
• internal communication, or
• collective memory
which might show remarkable "organizational incompetence“
• Flexibility:
• That software is easy to change is seen as a strength.
• However, where the software system interfaces with a physical or organizational
system, it is expected that the software will change to accommodate the other
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components rather than vice versa.
Importance of Project Management

Ensures timely delivery within budget:


By setting clear timelines, milestones, and budgets, project management
provides the tools to track progress and control costs, increasing the likelihood
of delivering the project on schedule and within financial constraints.

Helps in risk management (identifying and mitigating risks):


Through proper planning and monitoring, project management identifies
potential risks early and develops strategies to minimize their impact, ensuring
smoother project execution.

Improves quality through structured processes:


Using standardized methodologies and quality control measures, project
management ensures that deliverables meet the required standards and client
expectations.
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Importance of Project Management

Ensures efficient resource utilization:


Project management helps allocate human, financial, and material
resources in a balanced way, avoiding waste and ensuring that each
resource is used optimally throughout the project lifecycle.

Enhances stakeholder satisfaction:


Effective communication, transparency, and consistent delivery of value
throughout the project lead to greater trust and satisfaction among
stakeholders and clients.

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“TRIPS”
• Each letter stands for:
• T – Timely delivery within budget
• R – Risk management
• I – Improved quality through structured processes
• P – Proper resource utilization
• S – Stakeholder satisfaction

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Activities covered by SPM
Three successive processes bring a new system into
being.

Feasibility How
Study do we
do it?

Is it Plan
worth DO
doing it!
?

Project

Executio
n
Fig: The feasibility study/plan/execution
cycle
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