Course Title: Software Project Management

Unit 1

Overview of Project Management
 Project Management – Definitions
 Factors Influencing Project Management – Project Manager,
Project Management Activities, Stakeholders; Project
Communication;
 Project Development Phases;
 Project Charter; Statement of Work (SoW).
 Project Planning: Tasks in Project Planning;
 Work Breakdown Structures (WBS);
 Planning Methods;
 Development Life Cycle Models; A Generic Project Model.

Unit 2

Scheduling Techniques and Conflict Management:
 Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT), Gantt
Chart and critical Path Method (CPM), Automated Tools
 Project Monitoring and Controlling: Project Status Reporting;
 Project Metrics
 Project Communication Plan & Techniques
 Steps for Process Improvement.
 Team Development and Conflict Management: Basic
Concepts; Organization Types – Centralized-control team

organization, Decentralized-control team organization, Mixed-
control team organization.

Unit 3

Software Configuration Management (SCM) – Baselines, Software
Configuration Items (SCI); SCM Process; Version Control; Change
Control; Configuration Audit; Status Reporting; Goals of SCM.

Software Quality Assurance: Software Quality Assurance
Activities; Software Qualities; Software Quality Standards – ISO
Standards for Software Organization, Capability Maturity Model
(CMM), Comparison between ISO 9001 & CMM.

Unit 4

Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) Tools
 CASE Concepts
 Classification of CASE Tools
 Steps for CASE Tool Implementation
 Integrated CASE Environments
 Architecture of CASE Environment.
 Software Re-Engineering: Software Maintenance Problems;
Redevelopment vs. Reengineering; Business Process
Reengineering; Software Reengineering Process Model;
Technical Problems of Reengineering.

Reference Books:
1. Roger S Pressman, Bruce R Maxim, “Software Engineering: A Practitioner’s
Approach”, Kindle Edition, 2014.
2. Ian Sommerville,” Software engineering”, Addison Wesley Longman, 2014.
3. Software Project Management by Edwin Bennatan.
4. Software Project Management by S.A. Kelkar.