BCA Software Project Management
Software Project Management
Subject Code: CACS407
Course Title: Software Project Management
Course No: CACS407
Nature of Course: Theory & Practical
Full Marks: 60+20+20
Pass Marks: 24+8+8
Credit Hours: 3
Course Description
Course Objective
Course Contents
Unit 1. Software Project Management Concepts 8 Hrs.
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 8 Hrs.
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 7 Hrs.
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 8 Hrs.
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 5 Hrs.
Risk Identification, Planning, Evaluation and Management, Categories of Risk, Framework for dealing with risk, evaluating Risks to the schedule
Unit 6. Software Quality Management 5 Hrs.
TQM, Six Sigma, Software Quality: defining and importance software quality, ISO9126, Place of software quality in software planning
Unit 7. Software Configuration Management 7 Hrs.
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)
Text Books
- Cotterell, B. H. (2018). Software Project Management. McGraw-Hill.
- Dutt, S. C. (n.d.). Software Project Management. Pearson Education India.
- A.S. Kelkar (n.d.). Software Project Management. PHI Learning.
Lab 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).