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Software Project Management

Notes 1.5 Summary

 A project includes a number of activities that must be completed in some particular order,
or sequence.

 Projects have a specified completion date.
 The customer, or the recipient of the project’s deliverables, expects a certain level of
functionality and quality from the project.

 Software projects are disreputably hard to define.
 The aim of these processes is to make sure that various Project tasks are well coordinated
and they meet the various project goals including timely completion of the project.

 The thick methodologies we consider are RUP, SSADM and PRINCE2. XP, SCRUM and
Crystal Clear are measured as thin methodologies.

 The Project Management Body of Knowledge is a broad term that explains the sum of
knowledge within the profession of Project Management (PM).
 In a project a manager can judge if the projects are on schedule/budget.

1.6 Keywords

CCTA: Central Computing and Telecommunications Agency

EVM: Earned Value Management
PM: Project Management
PMBOK: Project Management Body of Knowledge

PRINCE: Projects in Controlled Environments
RUP: Rational Unified Process
SSADM: Structured Systems Analysis and Design Methodology
UML: Unified Modeling Language

1.7 Review Questions

1. “A project has never happened before, and it will never happen again under the same
conditions”. Discuss.
2. A project risk is an unsure event or condition that has consequences for the project? Justify.
3. “Software development skill change faster than other construction technologies.” Do you
agree? Justify.
4. Explain the various project planning projects.
5. In project scheduling how the resources are allocated?
6. In your words explain the advantages and disadvantages of RUP.
7. Do you think SSADM is a methodology? Explain how?
8. Discuss how the PMBOK tries to imitate the growth of knowledge and practices?
9. Explain the uses of Holy Triangle.
10. Explain the various problems with the software project.

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