Unit 1
Introduction to Software Project Management – Software Projects – ways of categorizing software projects – problems with software projects – Project Life Cycle – Management – Setting objectives – Stakeholders – Project Team – Step Wise: An overview of project planning – Project evaluation – Selection of appropriate project approach. Software effort estimation – function point analysis – objects point – COCOMO.
Unit 2
Activity planning – project schedules – sequencing and scheduling projects – Network planning models – AON and AOA – identifying critical activities – crashing and fast tracking, Risk management: Categories, Risk planning, management and control – Evaluating risks to the schedule, PERT. Resource allocation – identifying resource requirements – scheduling resources – creating critical paths – publishing schedule – cost schedules – sequence schedule.