Software Project Management

Project Management is generally seen as a key component of successful software projects. Together with software techniques such as Formal Methods it can produce software of high quality. This course aims to cover the basics.

Duration

One week, in 10 3-hour sessions.

Attendees

     

  • Practising software engineers and managers

     

  • IT students

     

  • IT lecturers and trainers

The course has a substantial practical component.

Topics

     

  • background

     

  • software development models

     

  • size and cost estimation

     

  • project planning

     

  • risk management

     

  • resource management

     

  • quality management: ISO 9000 and the Capability Maturity Model

     

  • performance tracking and reporting

     

  • configuration management

     

  • team management

Materials

As with other UNU/IIST courses, all the material is public domain and may be freely copied and/or amended. It can be found on our ftp site. A book [1] accompanies the course.

References

     

  1. Bob Hughes and Mike Cotterell: Software Project Management, Second Edition, McGraw-Hill 1999.