Software Project Management

Course Title: Software Project Management

Course No: CAC5407

Nature of the Course: Theory + Lab

Semester: 7

Full Marks: 20 + 20 + 60

Pass Marks: 8 + 8 + 24

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description

This course provides the comprehensive knowledge about Software Project Management, which encompasses with Software Project Planning, Scheduling, Cost Estimation, Risk management, Quality management and Configuration management.

Course Objectives

The general objective of this course is to provide fundamental knowledge of software project management and corresponding software tool.

Course Contents

1. Software Project Management Concepts

8 hrs

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Project and Software project

1.3. Software project vs other project

1.4. Importance and Problems in software project management

1.5. Process of SPM

1.6. Characteristics of good project manager

1.7. Successful Software Project Manager

1.8. Overview of Software Project Planning

2. Software Project Scheduling

8 hrs

2.1. Objectives of activity planning

2.2. Work breakdown structure

2.3. Network planning model

2.4. Critical path method (CPM)

2.5. Program evaluation and review technique (PERT)

2.6. Precedence diagramming method (PDM)

2.7. Shortening project duration

2.8. Identifying critical activities

2.9. Forward pass and Backward pass

3. Software Estimation Techniques

7 hrs

3.1. Software Effort Estimation

Problems with over and under estimations

Basis of software Estimating

Software effort estimation techniques

Expert Judgment

Estimating by analogy

Bottoms-up estimating

Top-down approach and parametric models

4. Software Evaluation and Costing

8 hrs

4.1. Project Evaluation

Strategic Assessment

Technical Assessment

Cost-benefit analysis

Cash flow forecasting

Cost-benefit evaluation techniques

Risk Evaluation

4.2. Selection of Appropriate Report

Project approach: Choosing technologies

Choice of process models

Structured methods

5. Risk Management

5 hrs

5.1. Risk Identification

5.2. Planning

5.3. Evaluation and Management

5.4. Categories of Risk

5.5. Framework for dealing with risk

5.6. Evaluating Risks to the schedule

6. Software Quality Management

5 hrs

6.1. TQM

6.2. Six Sigma

6.3. Software Quality: defining and importance software quality

6.4. ISO 9126

6.5. Place of software quality in software planning

7. Software Configuration Management

7 hrs

7.1. Concept

7.2. Requirement and Elements of SCM

7.3. Baseline

7.4. SCM Repository

7.5. Versioning and version control

7.6. SCM Process

7.7. Change Control Process

7.8. Configuration Audit and Status Reporting

7.9. Case Study: Version Control Software Tools

Laboratory Works

Laboratory works should be done covering all the topics listed above and a small work should be carried out using the concept learnt in each unit in the group. Work should be assigned on individual basis. Student may choose project Management tools like (MS Project, OpenProj, dot Project, Trello, Asana, ClickUp).

1.Project Management Tool Practice

Reference Books

1.Cotterell, B. H. (2018). Software Project Management. McGraw-Hill.
2.Dutt, S. C. (n.d.). Software Project Management. Pearson Education India.
3.A.S. Kelkar (n.d.). Software Project Management. PHI Learning.

Notes:

This syllabus follows the official BSC-CSIT curriculum of Tribhuvan University. In case of any doubt or revision, the university's published syllabus shall be considered authoritative.

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