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• SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• 1 UNDERSTANDING A PROJECT
• 1.1 Lesson objectives
• 1.2 Understanding Software Project Management
• 1.3 What causes a software project to succeed?
• 1.4 Program management
• 1.5 Project management standards
• 1.6 Project management defined
• 2 STAGES OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
• 2.1 Lesson objectives
• 2.2 Stages of project management
• 2.3 Project management knowledge areas
• 3 PROJECT INITIATION
• 3.1 Lesson objectives
• 3.2 Scope management
• 3.3 Business case
• 3.4 Presentation to management
• 4 PROJECT PLANNING
• 4.1 Lesson Objectives
• 4.2 Project Planning – Coverage
• 4.3 Specifying user requirements
• 4.4 Estimating duration
• 5 TIME MANAGEMENT: SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT
• 5.1 Learning objectives
• 5.2 Why measurement?
• 5.3 Metrics
• 6 SOFTWARE ESTIMATION
• 6.1 Learning objectives
• 6.2 What is estimation?
• 6.3 Challenges in Estimation
• 6.4 Can software be estimated at all?
• 6.5 Approaches to software estimation
• 6.6 Metrics for software estimation
• 6.7 Automation of estimation
• 7 PROJECT SCHEDULING AND TRACKING
• 7.1 Learning objectives
• 7.2 Project scheduling
• 7.3 Assigning staff to activities
• 7.4 Tracking the schedule
• 8 QUALITY MANAGEMENT
• 8.1 Learning objectives
• 8.2 What is quality?
• 8.3 Quality management
• 8.4 Quality control
• 9 RISK MANAGEMENT
• 9.1 Learning objectives
• 9.2 Risk defined
• 9.3 Risk management life-cycle – Phases
• 10 PROJECT COST MANAGEMENT
• 10.1 Lesson objectives
• 10.2 Importance of project cost management
• 10.3 Project cost management processes
• 10.4 Project Plan
• 11 PROJECT EXECUTION
• 11.1 Learning objectives
• 11.2 Launching the project
• 11.3 Stakeholders of a project
• 12 PROJECT STAFFING
• 12.1 Lesson objectives
• 12.2 Project staffing
• 12.3 Project organization structure
• 12.4 Project Management Office (PMO)
• 13 PROCUREMENT MANAGEMENT
• 13.1 Lesson objectives
• 13.2 Growing importance of Outsourcing
• 13.3 Request for Proposal (RFP)
• 13.4 Vendor evaluation
• 13.5 Contract preparation
• 13.6 Vendor Management
• 14 PROFILE OF A PROJECT MANAGER
• 14.1 Lesson objectives
• 14.2 Skills required of a project manager
• 15 MONITORING AND CONTROLLING A PROJECT
• 15.1 Learning objectives
• 15.2 Activities during this phase
• 15.3 Project status reporting
• 15.4 Cost control
• 16 CHANGE CONTROL AND CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
• 16.1 Learning objectives
• 16.2 What is configuration management?
• 16.3 What is software configuration?
• 16.4 Challenges in software configuration management
• 16.5 Baseline
• 16.6 Functions of configuration management
• 16.7 Software Configuration Management (SCM) tasks
• 17 RELEASE MANAGEMENT
• 17.1 Learning objectives
• 17.2 What is release management?
• 17.3 Why is release management challenging?
• 17.4 Release identifier
• 17.5 Release package
• 18 EXPECTATION MANAGEMENT
• 18.1 Lesson objectives
• 18.2 What is expectation management?
• 18.3 When is expectation management important?
• 18.4 A technique for expectation management
• 18.5 Prerequisites for managing expectations
• 18.6 Technology – a tool in managing expectation
• 19 CLOSING A PROJECT
• 19.1 Lesson objectives
• 19.2 Steps in project closure
• Annexure I
• Bibliography
• End Notes