14872_SPM Lect1 and Lect2

8/8/2019 14872_SPM Lect1 and Lect2

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Nitesh Kumar,

Asst. Professor,

LPU


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Booksy Bob Hughes and Mike Cotterell; Software Project

Management, Fourth edition, Tata McGraw Hill

Publishing Company Ltd., New Delhi.y Software Project Management, by Walker Royce,

published by Pearson Education.


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What is Software ???????y Computer software, or just software, is the

collection of computer programs and related data that

provide the instructions telling a computer what to do.

y Set of instruction-Program

y It consists of three things:

y Documentation

y Set of Programs

y User manual


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What is project?????y Project is defined as Planned activity.

yWhat is plan?????

yAns: Thinking carefully about something before youdo it.

yWhy we need plans?

y Plan tells us HOW to solve the problem.

yIn project we can determine how we are going to carry-out a task before we start.

yWhat is Diff. b/w non routine project and routinejobs???


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Characteristicsofprojects:y Non-routine task are involved

y Planning is required

y Specific objective to be met.y Must have predetermined time span

yWork is carried out for someone other than yourself

yWork is carried out in several phases

y The project is large or complex task


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How we can say that a project is

successful???yA project meeting all of its objective is a successful

project.

yA project that satisfies all the customer s need.y So What is needed to do?

y Identify goal

y Identify all Stakeholders

y IdentifyStakeholders need


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What is management?y It is the acts of getting people together to accomplish

desired goals and objectives.

1. Planning2. Organizing

3. Monitoring

4. Controllingetc


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Software projects v/s Other

projects3 Invisibility

3 Progress is not visible

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Complexity3 Software products are more complex than other engg.products

3Conformity3 In Software Engg. Developer have to conform to the

requirements of humans only.3Flexibility

3 With compare to other Engineering field in Software is easyto change


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Software Project Managementy SPM means management of software projects

y Why we need management in software projects?

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Ans: As its very difficult to estimate about software projectstherefore it is needed.

y It helps to estimate about software project.y In terms of

y Effort required

y Time requiredy Cost

y Man power need

y Monitoring and controlling


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Activities covered by SPMy Software projects are not only about the actual coding.

FeasibilityStudy

PLAN

Project Executions


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Feasibility Studyy FeasibilityStudy: Tells project is worth starting-that it

has a valid business case.

yInformation gathering

y Requirement elicitation

y Cost estimation

yWith large project feasibility study could be treated as

project in its own right


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Planningy If in feasibility study we find that it is worth doing the

project then planning of project can take place

y No detailed planningy Has only outline plan for whole project

y Detailed plan are created in later stages


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Project Executiony Execution contains design and implementation phase


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Key objectivesofeffective

managementy Planning

y Deciding what is to be done & HOW

yOrganizationy Making arrangements

y Staffing

y Selecting the right people for the job

yDirectingy Giving instructions

y Monitoring

y Checking on progress


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Key objectivesofeffective

managementy Controlling

y Taking action to remedy hold-ups

y Innovatingy Coming up with new ideas

y Representing

y Liaising with clients, user, developer and other

stakeholders.


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Any Questions???


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14872_SPM Lect1 and Lect2