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Official AKTU syllabus of Software Project Management (BMI504) for Integrated MCA 5th Semester – 2 credits, L-T-P 2-0-0. Read the unit-wise course content, course outcomes, evaluation pattern and recommended books online, or download the PDF.
Syllabus — Software Project Management
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Course Outcomes
At the end of course, the student will be able to understand
| CO 1 | Identify project planning objectives, along with various cost/effort estimation models. | K1 |
| CO 2 | Organize & schedule project activities to compute critical path for risk analysis | K3 |
| CO 3 | Monitor and control project activities. | K3 |
| CO 4 | Formulate testing objectives and test plan to ensure good software quality under SEI-CMM | K2 |
| CO 5 | Configure changes and manage risks using project management tools. | K2 |
Course Content
| Unit | Topic | Proposed Lecture |
|---|---|---|
| I | Project Evaluation and Project Planning: Importance of Software Project Management – Activities – Methodologies – Categorization of Software Projects – Setting objectives – Management Principles – Management Control – Project portfolio Management – Cost-benefit evaluation technology – Risk evaluation – Strategic program Management – Stepwise Project Planning. | 08 |
| II | Project Life Cycle and Effort Estimation: Software process and Process Models – Choice of Process models – Rapid Application development – Agile methods – Dynamic System Development Method – Extreme Programming– Managing interactive processes – Basics of Software estimation – Effort and Cost estimation techniques – COSMIC Full function points – COCOMO II – a Parametric Productivity Model. | 08 |
| III | Activity Planning and Risk Management: Objectives of Activity planning – Project schedules – Activities – Sequencing and scheduling – Network Planning models – Formulating Network Model – Forward Pass & Backward Pass techniques – Critical path (CRM) method – Risk identification – Assessment – Risk Planning –Risk Management – – PERT technique – Monte Carlo simulation – Resource Allocation – Creation of Critical paths – Cost schedules. | 08 |
| IV | Project Management and Control: Framework for Management and control – Collection of data – Visualizing progress – Cost monitoring – Earned Value Analysis – Prioritizing Monitoring – Project tracking – Change control Software Configuration Management – Managing contracts – Contract Management. | 08 |
| V | Staffing in Software Projects: Managing people – Organizational behavior – Best methods of staff selection – Motivation – The Oldham – Hackman job characteristic model – Stress – Health and Safety – Ethical and Professional concerns – Working in teams – Decision making – Organizational structures – Dispersed and Virtual teams – Communications genres – Communication plans – Leadership. | 08 |
Suggested Readings
- Bob Hughes, Mike Cotterell and Rajib Mall: “Software Project Management” – Fifth Edition, McGraw Hill,New Delhi, 2012.
- Robert K. Wysocki ― “Effective Software Project Management” – Wiley Publication, 2011.
- Walker Royce: ― “Software Project Management” - Addison-Wesley, 1998.
- Gopalaswamy Ramesh, ― “Managing Global Software Projects” – McGraw Hill Education (India), Fourteenth Reprint 2013.
- Koontz Harold & Weihrich Heinz, "Essentials of Management", McGraw Hill 5thEdition 2008.
- Robbins and Coulter, "Management", Prentice Hall of India, 9th edition.
- James A. F., Stoner, "Management", Pearson Education Delhi.
- P. D. Chaturvedi, "Business Communication", Pearson Education. Elective-1
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