BCA Software Project Management
bcasemester 7Elective
Unit 1:Software Project Management Concepts
Introduction, Project and Software project, Software project vs other project, Importance and Problems in software project management, Process of SPM, Characteristics of good project manager, Successful Software Project Manager, Overview of Software Project Planning
Unit 2:Software Project Scheduling
Objectives of activity planning, Work breakdown structure, Network planning model: Critical path method (CPM), Program evaluation and review technique (PERT), Precedence diagramming method (PDM), Shortening project duration, Identifying critical activities, Forward pass and Backward pass
Unit 3:Software Estimation Techniques
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
Unit 4:Software Evaluation and Costing
Project Evaluation: Strategic Assessment, Technical Assessment, cost-benefit analysis, Cash flow forecasting, cost-benefit evaluation techniques, Risk Evaluation, Selection of Appropriate Report, Project approach: Choosing technologies, choice of process models, structured methods
Unit 5:Risk Management
Risk Identification, Planning, Evaluation and Management, Categories of Risk, Framework for dealing with risk, evaluating Risks to the schedule
Unit 6:Software Quality Management
TQM, Six Sigma, Software Quality: defining and importance software quality, ISO9126, Place of software quality in software planning
Unit 7:Software Configuration Management
Concept, Requirement and Elements of SCM, Baseline, SCM Repository, Versioning and version control, SCM Process, Change Control Process, Configuration Audit and Status Reporting, Case Study: Version Control Software Tools (Git, CVS, SVN)