23rd January 2020 10:41 AM | |
Neelu Bhasin | Re: Software Project Management Syllabus Anna University The Syllabus for B Tech CSE (Computer Science Engineering) - MG6088 Software Project Management – offered by Anna University is as follows: OBJECTIVES: To outline the need for Software Project Management To highlight different techniques for software cost estimation and activity planning. UNIT I PROJECT EVALUATION AND PROJECT PLANNING Importance of Software Project Management – Activities Methodologies – Categorization of Software Projects – Setting objectives – Management Principles – Management Control – Project portfolio Management – Cost-benefit evaluation technology – Risk evaluation – Strategic program Management – Stepwise Project Planning. UNIT II PROJECT LIFE CYCLE AND EFFORT ESTIMATION Software process and Process Models – Choice of Process models - mental delivery – Rapid Application development – Agile methods – Extreme Programming – SCRUM – Managing interactive processes – Basics of Software estimation – Effort and Cost estimation techniques – COSMIC Full function points - COCOMO II A Parametric Productivity Model - Staffing Pattern. UNIT III ACTIVITY PLANNING AND RISK MANAGEMENT Objectives of Activity planning – Project schedules – Activities – Sequencing and scheduling – Network Planning models – Forward Pass & Backward Pass techniques – Critical path (CRM) method – Risk identification – Assessment – Monitoring – PERT technique – Monte Carlo simulation – Resource Allocation – Creation of critical patterns – Cost schedules. UNIT IV PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL Framework for Management and control – Collection of data Project termination – Visualizing progress – Cost monitoring – Earned Value Analysis- Project tracking – Change control- Software Configuration Management – Managing contracts – Contract Management. UNIT V STAFFING IN SOFTWARE PROJECTS Managing people – Organizational behavior – Best methods of staff selection – Motivation – The Oldham-Hackman job characteristic model – Ethical and Programmed concerns – Working in teams – Decision making – Team structures – Virtual teams – Communications genres – Communication plans. TOTAL: 45 PERIODS OUTCOMES: At the end of the course the students will be able to practice Project Management principles while developing a software. TEXTBOOK: 1. Bob Hughes, Mike Cotterell and Rajib Mall: Software Project Management – Fifth Edition, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2012. REFERENCES: 1. Robert K. Wysocki “Effective Software Project Management” – Wiley Publication,2011. 2. Walker Royce: “Software Project Management”- Addison-Wesley, 1998. 3. Gopalaswamy Ramesh, “Managing Global Software Projects” – McGraw Hill Education (India), Fourteenth Reprint 2013 |
23rd January 2020 10:40 AM | |
Unregistered | Re: Software Project Management Syllabus Anna University Can you provide me the Syllabus for B Tech CSE (Computer Science Engineering) - MG6088 Software Project Management – offered by Anna University? |
8th May 2015 09:39 AM | |
Unregistered | Software Project Management Syllabus Anna University I am doing B.E. CSE Semester 8th form affiliated college of Anna University, Chennai and lost my soft copy of Syllabus of Software Project Management Subject in B.Tech CSE 8th Semester so please provide me the syllabus in PDF Format? |