

OBJECTIVES:
• To understand the various project management phases – Initiation, Planning, Tracking and Closure.
• To study various project estimation methodologies, process models and risk management.
• To understand quality assurance in software development.
UNIT I PROJECT MANAGEMENT OVERVIEW
What is Project and Project Management, Various phase of Project Management, Project Stakeholders, Project Management Organisation (PMO);Roles and Responsibilities of Project Manager. Brief introduction to various process models – Waterfall, RAD, V, Spiral, Incremental, Prototyping,Agile– SCRUM, Extreme Programming (XP) and Kanban Project Initiation – Project Charter; Statement of Work (SoW).
UNIT II PROJECT PLANNING
Project Planning Activities- Project Scope, Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Software estimation methodologies – COCOMO Model and Function Point Project Scheduling Techniques – Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT), Gantt Chart and Critical Path Method (CPM)
UNIT III PROJECT TRACKING
Monitoring and Control, Project Status Reporting; Project Metrics; Earned Value Analysis (EVA); Project Communication Plan & Techniques; Steps for Process Improvement. Risk Management: Concepts of Risks and Risk Management; Risk Management Activities; Effective Risk Management; Risk Categories; Aids for Risk Identification; Potential Risk Treatments; Risk Components and Drivers; Risk Prioritization.
UNIT IV PROJECT CLOSURE
Project Closure Analysis, Lesson Learnt Software Quality Assurance-Software Quality Assurance Activities; Software Qualities; Software Quality Standards – ISO Standards for Software Organization, Capability Maturity Model (CMM), Comparison between ISO 9001 & SEI CMM, Other Standards.
UNIT V AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT WITH SCRUM
Agile Manifesto and Agile Principles Agile Scrum – Purpose, Values, Scrum Framework, Scrum Roles – Product Owner, Scrum Master &Team, Scrum Events – Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum/Stand-up Meeting, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, Scrum Artefacts – Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment and Definition of Done (DoD), Agile estimation – Story Point
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
OUTCOMES:
At the end of this course, student should be able to:
• Manage different phases of Software Project Management.
• Identify Risk and create risk mitigation plan.
• Apply software quality assurance for better quality software delivery.
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