The document discusses project planning in software engineering. It defines project planning and its importance. It describes the project manager's responsibilities which include project planning, reporting, risk management, and people management. It discusses challenges in software project planning. The RUP process for project planning is then outlined which involves creating artifacts like the business case and software development plan. Risk management is also a key part of project planning.
The document discusses organization and team structures for software development organizations. It explains the differences between functional and project formats. The functional format divides teams by development phase (e.g. requirements, design), while the project format assigns teams to a single project. The document notes advantages of the functional format include specialization, documentation, and handling staff turnover. However, it is not suitable for small organizations with few projects. The document also describes common team structures like chief programmer, democratic, and mixed control models.
Introduction to Software Project ManagementReetesh Gupta
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This document provides an introduction to software project management. It defines what a project and software project management are, and discusses the key characteristics and phases of projects. Software project management aims to deliver software on time, within budget and meeting requirements. It also discusses challenges that can occur in software projects related to people, processes, products and technology. Effective project management focuses on planning, organizing, monitoring and controlling the project work.
The document discusses various aspects of software project management including project planning activities like estimation, scheduling, staffing, and risk handling. It describes different project organization structures like functional organization and project organization. It also discusses different team structures like chief programmer teams, democratic teams, and mixed teams. The document emphasizes the importance of careful project planning and producing a software project management plan document. It also discusses considerations for staffing a project team and attributes of a good software engineer.
The document discusses software measurement and metrics. It defines software measurement as quantifying attributes of software products and processes. Metrics are used to measure software quality levels. There are different types of metrics including product, process, and project metrics. Common software metrics include lines of code, function points, and complexity measures. Metrics should be quantitative, understandable, repeatable, and economical to compute.
This document discusses project scheduling for software engineering projects. It covers key topics such as:
- The importance of scheduling for establishing a roadmap and tracking progress on large, complex software projects.
- Basic principles of software project scheduling including compartmentalizing work, indicating interdependencies, allocating time and resources, and assigning responsibilities.
- Methods for defining tasks, networks, and timelines to plan and track schedules.
- Techniques for monitoring schedule performance such as status meetings, milestone tracking, and earned value analysis.
- Factors that influence schedules such as risks, changing requirements, estimates, and technical difficulties.
What is Software project management?? , What is a Project?, What is a Product?, What is Project Management?, What is Software Project Life Cycle?, What is a Product Life Cycle?, Software Project, Software Triple Constraints, Software Project Manager, Project Planning,
The document discusses the software design process. It begins by explaining that software design is an iterative process that translates requirements into a blueprint for constructing the software. It then describes the main steps and outputs of the design process, which include transforming specifications into design models, reviewing designs for quality, and producing a design document. The document also covers key concepts in software design like abstraction, architecture, patterns, modularity, and information hiding.
This document provides an overview of software maintenance. It discusses that software maintenance is an important phase of the software life cycle that accounts for 40-70% of total costs. Maintenance includes error correction, enhancements, deletions of obsolete capabilities, and optimizations. The document categorizes maintenance into corrective, adaptive, perfective and preventive types. It also discusses the need for maintenance to adapt to changing user requirements and environments. The document describes approaches to software maintenance including program understanding, generating maintenance proposals, accounting for ripple effects, and modified program testing. It discusses challenges like lack of documentation and high staff turnover. The document also introduces concepts of reengineering and reverse engineering to make legacy systems more maintainable.
The document discusses organization and team structures for software development organizations. It explains the differences between functional and project formats. The functional format divides teams by development phase (e.g. requirements, design), while the project format assigns teams to a single project. The document notes advantages of the functional format include specialization, documentation, and handling staff turnover. However, it is not suitable for small organizations with few projects. The document also describes common team structures like chief programmer, democratic, and mixed control models.
Introduction to Software Project ManagementReetesh Gupta
Ā
This document provides an introduction to software project management. It defines what a project and software project management are, and discusses the key characteristics and phases of projects. Software project management aims to deliver software on time, within budget and meeting requirements. It also discusses challenges that can occur in software projects related to people, processes, products and technology. Effective project management focuses on planning, organizing, monitoring and controlling the project work.
The document discusses various aspects of software project management including project planning activities like estimation, scheduling, staffing, and risk handling. It describes different project organization structures like functional organization and project organization. It also discusses different team structures like chief programmer teams, democratic teams, and mixed teams. The document emphasizes the importance of careful project planning and producing a software project management plan document. It also discusses considerations for staffing a project team and attributes of a good software engineer.
The document discusses software measurement and metrics. It defines software measurement as quantifying attributes of software products and processes. Metrics are used to measure software quality levels. There are different types of metrics including product, process, and project metrics. Common software metrics include lines of code, function points, and complexity measures. Metrics should be quantitative, understandable, repeatable, and economical to compute.
This document discusses project scheduling for software engineering projects. It covers key topics such as:
- The importance of scheduling for establishing a roadmap and tracking progress on large, complex software projects.
- Basic principles of software project scheduling including compartmentalizing work, indicating interdependencies, allocating time and resources, and assigning responsibilities.
- Methods for defining tasks, networks, and timelines to plan and track schedules.
- Techniques for monitoring schedule performance such as status meetings, milestone tracking, and earned value analysis.
- Factors that influence schedules such as risks, changing requirements, estimates, and technical difficulties.
What is Software project management?? , What is a Project?, What is a Product?, What is Project Management?, What is Software Project Life Cycle?, What is a Product Life Cycle?, Software Project, Software Triple Constraints, Software Project Manager, Project Planning,
The document discusses the software design process. It begins by explaining that software design is an iterative process that translates requirements into a blueprint for constructing the software. It then describes the main steps and outputs of the design process, which include transforming specifications into design models, reviewing designs for quality, and producing a design document. The document also covers key concepts in software design like abstraction, architecture, patterns, modularity, and information hiding.
This document provides an overview of software maintenance. It discusses that software maintenance is an important phase of the software life cycle that accounts for 40-70% of total costs. Maintenance includes error correction, enhancements, deletions of obsolete capabilities, and optimizations. The document categorizes maintenance into corrective, adaptive, perfective and preventive types. It also discusses the need for maintenance to adapt to changing user requirements and environments. The document describes approaches to software maintenance including program understanding, generating maintenance proposals, accounting for ripple effects, and modified program testing. It discusses challenges like lack of documentation and high staff turnover. The document also introduces concepts of reengineering and reverse engineering to make legacy systems more maintainable.
The document provides an overview of software cost estimation, outlining various methods used including algorithmic models like COCOMO, expert judgement, top-down and bottom-up approaches, and estimation by analogy. It discusses COCOMO in detail, including the original COCOMO 81 model and updated COCOMO II model, and emphasizes the importance of calibration for accurate estimates.
Software project planning involves defining roles and responsibilities, ensuring work aligns with business objectives, and checking schedules and requirements feasibility. It requires risk analysis, tracking the project plan, and meeting quality standards. Issues can include unclear requirements, time/budget mismanagement, personnel problems, and lack of management support. Key activities are identifying requirements, estimating costs/risks, preparing a project charter and plan, and commencing the project. The master schedule summarizes deliverables and milestones based on a master project plan and detailed work schedules.
This document discusses different types of software metrics including process, product, and project metrics. It defines metrics as quantitative measures of attributes and discusses how they can be used as indicators to improve processes and projects. Process metrics measure attributes of the development process over long periods of time. Product metrics measure attributes of the software at different stages. Project metrics are used to monitor and control projects. The document also discusses size-oriented and function-oriented metrics for normalization and comparison purposes. It provides examples of calculating function points and deriving metrics like errors per function point.
This document discusses several software cost estimation techniques:
1. Top-down and bottom-up approaches - Top-down estimates system-level costs while bottom-up estimates costs of each module and combines them.
2. Expert judgment - Widely used technique where experts estimate costs based on past similar projects. It utilizes experience but can be biased.
3. Delphi estimation - Estimators anonymously provide estimates in rounds to reach consensus without group dynamics influencing individuals.
4. Work breakdown structure - Hierarchical breakdown of either the product components or work activities to aid bottom-up estimation.
The document discusses different types of software metrics that can be used to measure various aspects of software development. Process metrics measure attributes of the development process, while product metrics measure attributes of the software product. Project metrics are used to monitor and control software projects. Metrics need to be normalized to allow for comparison between different projects or teams. This can be done using size-oriented metrics that relate measures to the size of the software, or function-oriented metrics that relate measures to the functionality delivered.
The document discusses software project planning and estimation. It explains that project planning involves estimating the time, effort, people and resources required. The key activities in planning are estimation, scheduling, risk analysis, quality planning and change management. Estimation techniques include decomposition, using historical data, and empirical models. Factors to consider in estimation include feasibility, resources like people and tools, and make-or-buy decisions about reusable software.
Risk management involves identifying potential problems, assessing their likelihood and impacts, and developing strategies to address them. There are two main risk strategies - reactive, which addresses risks after issues arise, and proactive, which plans ahead. Key steps in proactive risk management include identifying risks through checklists, estimating their probability and impacts, developing mitigation plans, monitoring risks and mitigation effectiveness, and adjusting plans as needed. Common risk categories include project risks, technical risks, and business risks.
This document discusses different process models used in software development. It describes the key phases and characteristics of several common process models including waterfall, prototyping, V-model, incremental, iterative, spiral and agile development models. The waterfall model involves sequential phases from requirements to maintenance without iteration. Prototyping allows for user feedback earlier. The V-model adds verification and validation phases. Incremental and iterative models divide the work into smaller chunks to allow for iteration and user feedback throughout development.
The document discusses staffing level estimation over the course of a software development project. It describes how the number of personnel needed varies at different stages: a small group is needed for planning and analysis, a larger group for architectural design, and the largest number for implementation and system testing. It also references models like the Rayleigh curve and Putnam's interpretation that estimate personnel levels over time. Tables show estimates for the distribution of effort, schedule, and personnel across activities for different project sizes. The key idea is that staffing requirements fluctuate throughout the software life cycle, with peaks during implementation and testing phases.
Software Project Management (monitoring and control)IsrarDewan
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Monitoring and Controlling are processes needed to track, review, and regulate the progress and performance of the project. It also identifies any areas where changes to the project management method are required and initiates the required changes.
This document discusses several techniques for estimating software costs: expert judgement, pricing to win, estimation by analogy, bottom-up, top-down, and algorithmic cost modeling. Expert judgement involves consulting experts and iterating until agreement. Pricing to win bases the estimate only on the customer's budget. Estimation by analogy compares a new project to similar past projects. Bottom-up and top-down respectively estimate from components or overall functionality. Algorithmic cost modeling uses mathematical equations based on historical data.
The document discusses factors related to software project size and effort. It provides the following key points:
1) Software development and maintenance can account for a significant portion of economic activity, with estimates that it will account for 12.5% of the US GDP by 1990.
2) Most effort is spent on maintenance rather than development, with estimates that maintenance accounts for 60-90% of total effort.
3) Software project size is categorized based on factors like number of programmers, duration, lines of code, and interactions/complexity. These range from trivial single-programmer projects to extremely large projects involving thousands of programmers over 5-10 years.
4) A 1964 study found that programmers only spent
This document discusses major factors that influence software cost estimation. It identifies programmer ability, product complexity, product size, available time, required reliability, and level of technology as key factors. It provides details on how each factor affects software cost, including equations to estimate programming time and effort based on variables like source lines of code and developer months. Program complexity is broken into three levels: application, utility, and system software. The document also discusses how underestimating code size and inability to compress development schedules can impact cost estimates.
This document discusses software project management. It outlines software processes, common problems, and methods for improving processes. Software processes involve many elements and sub-processes. Common problems include cost overruns, schedule delays, low productivity, and poor quality. There are three methods for improving processes: meta processes focus on organizational strategies and profitability, macro processes produce software within constraints for a project, and micro processes focus on iterations and risk resolution for a project team. The objective of process improvement is to maximize resources for productive activities and minimize overhead impacts on resources like personnel and schedule to ultimately enhance product quality.
Estimation determines the resources needed to build a system and involves estimating the software size, effort, time, and cost. It is based on past data, documents, assumptions, and risks. The main steps are estimating the software size, effort, time, and cost. Software size can be estimated in lines of code or function points. Effort estimation calculates person-hours or months based on software size using formulas like COCOMO-II. Cost estimation considers additional factors like hardware, tools, personnel skills, and travel. Techniques for estimation include decomposition and empirical models like Putnam and COCOMO, which relate size to time and effort.
Software engineering a practitioners approach 8th edition pressman solutions ...Drusilla918
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Decomposition technique In Software Engineering Bilal Hassan
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The document discusses different techniques for estimating software project costs and effort, including decomposition, sizing, and function point analysis. It provides an example of estimating the lines of code and function points for a mechanical CAD software project. Estimates are developed by decomposing the problem into smaller elements and tasks, and estimating the effort required for each. The accuracy of estimates depends on properly sizing the software and having reliable past project metrics.
This document discusses common myths held by software managers, developers, and customers. It describes myths such as believing formal standards and procedures are sufficient, thinking new hardware means high quality development, adding people to late projects will help catch up, and outsourcing means relaxing oversight. Realities discussed include standards not being used effectively, tools being more important than hardware, adding people making projects later, and needing management and control of outsourced projects. Developer myths like thinking the job is done once code runs and quality can't be assessed until code runs are addressed. The document emphasizes the importance of requirements, documentation, quality processes, and addressing change impacts.
The document discusses software quality and defines key aspects:
- It explains the importance of software quality for users and developers.
- Qualities like correctness, reliability, efficiency are defined.
- Methods for measuring qualities like ISO 9126 standard are presented.
- Quality is important throughout the software development process.
- Both product quality and process quality need to be managed.
Project control and process instrumentationKuppusamy P
Ā
The document discusses project control and process instrumentation for software development projects. It describes 7 core metrics that can be used to measure: 1) management indicators like work progress, budget, and staffing, and 2) quality indicators like change activity, breakage, rework, and defects over time. These metrics provide objective assessments of progress, quality, and estimates. The document also discusses automating metric collection and displaying metrics through a software project control panel to provide visibility into the project.
The document discusses software project planning and size estimation techniques. It describes estimating the size of a software project using lines of code counting, function point analysis, and examples. Function point analysis involves decomposing a system into functional units like inputs, outputs, files and inquiries. Each unit is assigned a complexity weight and counted. The weighted counts are summed to calculate unadjusted function points. Adjustments are then made based on complexity factors to determine the final function point count, which can be used to estimate effort, cost and schedule for a project. Three examples are provided to illustrate calculating function points for sample projects.
The document discusses software cost estimation and planning. It describes several models for software cost estimation including COCOMO and Putnam models. COCOMO uses staff months and lines of code to initially estimate effort which is then adjusted based on cost drivers. Putnam uses a Rayleigh curve staffing model based on volume, difficulty, and time constraints. Thorough planning is important to software projects and factors like life cycle, quality assurance, and risk management should be considered. Historical data and validated models can help produce more accurate cost and schedule estimates.
The document provides an overview of software cost estimation, outlining various methods used including algorithmic models like COCOMO, expert judgement, top-down and bottom-up approaches, and estimation by analogy. It discusses COCOMO in detail, including the original COCOMO 81 model and updated COCOMO II model, and emphasizes the importance of calibration for accurate estimates.
Software project planning involves defining roles and responsibilities, ensuring work aligns with business objectives, and checking schedules and requirements feasibility. It requires risk analysis, tracking the project plan, and meeting quality standards. Issues can include unclear requirements, time/budget mismanagement, personnel problems, and lack of management support. Key activities are identifying requirements, estimating costs/risks, preparing a project charter and plan, and commencing the project. The master schedule summarizes deliverables and milestones based on a master project plan and detailed work schedules.
This document discusses different types of software metrics including process, product, and project metrics. It defines metrics as quantitative measures of attributes and discusses how they can be used as indicators to improve processes and projects. Process metrics measure attributes of the development process over long periods of time. Product metrics measure attributes of the software at different stages. Project metrics are used to monitor and control projects. The document also discusses size-oriented and function-oriented metrics for normalization and comparison purposes. It provides examples of calculating function points and deriving metrics like errors per function point.
This document discusses several software cost estimation techniques:
1. Top-down and bottom-up approaches - Top-down estimates system-level costs while bottom-up estimates costs of each module and combines them.
2. Expert judgment - Widely used technique where experts estimate costs based on past similar projects. It utilizes experience but can be biased.
3. Delphi estimation - Estimators anonymously provide estimates in rounds to reach consensus without group dynamics influencing individuals.
4. Work breakdown structure - Hierarchical breakdown of either the product components or work activities to aid bottom-up estimation.
The document discusses different types of software metrics that can be used to measure various aspects of software development. Process metrics measure attributes of the development process, while product metrics measure attributes of the software product. Project metrics are used to monitor and control software projects. Metrics need to be normalized to allow for comparison between different projects or teams. This can be done using size-oriented metrics that relate measures to the size of the software, or function-oriented metrics that relate measures to the functionality delivered.
The document discusses software project planning and estimation. It explains that project planning involves estimating the time, effort, people and resources required. The key activities in planning are estimation, scheduling, risk analysis, quality planning and change management. Estimation techniques include decomposition, using historical data, and empirical models. Factors to consider in estimation include feasibility, resources like people and tools, and make-or-buy decisions about reusable software.
Risk management involves identifying potential problems, assessing their likelihood and impacts, and developing strategies to address them. There are two main risk strategies - reactive, which addresses risks after issues arise, and proactive, which plans ahead. Key steps in proactive risk management include identifying risks through checklists, estimating their probability and impacts, developing mitigation plans, monitoring risks and mitigation effectiveness, and adjusting plans as needed. Common risk categories include project risks, technical risks, and business risks.
This document discusses different process models used in software development. It describes the key phases and characteristics of several common process models including waterfall, prototyping, V-model, incremental, iterative, spiral and agile development models. The waterfall model involves sequential phases from requirements to maintenance without iteration. Prototyping allows for user feedback earlier. The V-model adds verification and validation phases. Incremental and iterative models divide the work into smaller chunks to allow for iteration and user feedback throughout development.
The document discusses staffing level estimation over the course of a software development project. It describes how the number of personnel needed varies at different stages: a small group is needed for planning and analysis, a larger group for architectural design, and the largest number for implementation and system testing. It also references models like the Rayleigh curve and Putnam's interpretation that estimate personnel levels over time. Tables show estimates for the distribution of effort, schedule, and personnel across activities for different project sizes. The key idea is that staffing requirements fluctuate throughout the software life cycle, with peaks during implementation and testing phases.
Software Project Management (monitoring and control)IsrarDewan
Ā
Monitoring and Controlling are processes needed to track, review, and regulate the progress and performance of the project. It also identifies any areas where changes to the project management method are required and initiates the required changes.
This document discusses several techniques for estimating software costs: expert judgement, pricing to win, estimation by analogy, bottom-up, top-down, and algorithmic cost modeling. Expert judgement involves consulting experts and iterating until agreement. Pricing to win bases the estimate only on the customer's budget. Estimation by analogy compares a new project to similar past projects. Bottom-up and top-down respectively estimate from components or overall functionality. Algorithmic cost modeling uses mathematical equations based on historical data.
The document discusses factors related to software project size and effort. It provides the following key points:
1) Software development and maintenance can account for a significant portion of economic activity, with estimates that it will account for 12.5% of the US GDP by 1990.
2) Most effort is spent on maintenance rather than development, with estimates that maintenance accounts for 60-90% of total effort.
3) Software project size is categorized based on factors like number of programmers, duration, lines of code, and interactions/complexity. These range from trivial single-programmer projects to extremely large projects involving thousands of programmers over 5-10 years.
4) A 1964 study found that programmers only spent
This document discusses major factors that influence software cost estimation. It identifies programmer ability, product complexity, product size, available time, required reliability, and level of technology as key factors. It provides details on how each factor affects software cost, including equations to estimate programming time and effort based on variables like source lines of code and developer months. Program complexity is broken into three levels: application, utility, and system software. The document also discusses how underestimating code size and inability to compress development schedules can impact cost estimates.
This document discusses software project management. It outlines software processes, common problems, and methods for improving processes. Software processes involve many elements and sub-processes. Common problems include cost overruns, schedule delays, low productivity, and poor quality. There are three methods for improving processes: meta processes focus on organizational strategies and profitability, macro processes produce software within constraints for a project, and micro processes focus on iterations and risk resolution for a project team. The objective of process improvement is to maximize resources for productive activities and minimize overhead impacts on resources like personnel and schedule to ultimately enhance product quality.
Estimation determines the resources needed to build a system and involves estimating the software size, effort, time, and cost. It is based on past data, documents, assumptions, and risks. The main steps are estimating the software size, effort, time, and cost. Software size can be estimated in lines of code or function points. Effort estimation calculates person-hours or months based on software size using formulas like COCOMO-II. Cost estimation considers additional factors like hardware, tools, personnel skills, and travel. Techniques for estimation include decomposition and empirical models like Putnam and COCOMO, which relate size to time and effort.
Software engineering a practitioners approach 8th edition pressman solutions ...Drusilla918
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software engineering pressman 9th edition pdf
software engineering a practitioner's approach 9th edition
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Decomposition technique In Software Engineering Bilal Hassan
Ā
The document discusses different techniques for estimating software project costs and effort, including decomposition, sizing, and function point analysis. It provides an example of estimating the lines of code and function points for a mechanical CAD software project. Estimates are developed by decomposing the problem into smaller elements and tasks, and estimating the effort required for each. The accuracy of estimates depends on properly sizing the software and having reliable past project metrics.
This document discusses common myths held by software managers, developers, and customers. It describes myths such as believing formal standards and procedures are sufficient, thinking new hardware means high quality development, adding people to late projects will help catch up, and outsourcing means relaxing oversight. Realities discussed include standards not being used effectively, tools being more important than hardware, adding people making projects later, and needing management and control of outsourced projects. Developer myths like thinking the job is done once code runs and quality can't be assessed until code runs are addressed. The document emphasizes the importance of requirements, documentation, quality processes, and addressing change impacts.
The document discusses software quality and defines key aspects:
- It explains the importance of software quality for users and developers.
- Qualities like correctness, reliability, efficiency are defined.
- Methods for measuring qualities like ISO 9126 standard are presented.
- Quality is important throughout the software development process.
- Both product quality and process quality need to be managed.
Project control and process instrumentationKuppusamy P
Ā
The document discusses project control and process instrumentation for software development projects. It describes 7 core metrics that can be used to measure: 1) management indicators like work progress, budget, and staffing, and 2) quality indicators like change activity, breakage, rework, and defects over time. These metrics provide objective assessments of progress, quality, and estimates. The document also discusses automating metric collection and displaying metrics through a software project control panel to provide visibility into the project.
The document discusses software project planning and size estimation techniques. It describes estimating the size of a software project using lines of code counting, function point analysis, and examples. Function point analysis involves decomposing a system into functional units like inputs, outputs, files and inquiries. Each unit is assigned a complexity weight and counted. The weighted counts are summed to calculate unadjusted function points. Adjustments are then made based on complexity factors to determine the final function point count, which can be used to estimate effort, cost and schedule for a project. Three examples are provided to illustrate calculating function points for sample projects.
The document discusses software cost estimation and planning. It describes several models for software cost estimation including COCOMO and Putnam models. COCOMO uses staff months and lines of code to initially estimate effort which is then adjusted based on cost drivers. Putnam uses a Rayleigh curve staffing model based on volume, difficulty, and time constraints. Thorough planning is important to software projects and factors like life cycle, quality assurance, and risk management should be considered. Historical data and validated models can help produce more accurate cost and schedule estimates.
COCOMO I is a software cost estimation model published in 1981 by Barry Boehm. It uses a waterfall lifecycle approach and estimates development effort as a function of program size (measured in KDSI) and 15 cost drivers. The model has three levels - basic, intermediate, and detailed - with the detailed version incorporating impacts on each development phase. While transparent, it is difficult to accurately estimate size early on and vulnerable to misclassifying development mode. Success relies on tuning the model using organizational historical data.
The COCOMO model estimates the effort required for software projects in terms of person-months. It exists in three forms - basic, intermediate, and advanced. The basic model computes effort as a function of lines of code, while the intermediate model considers additional cost drivers like product attributes, hardware attributes, personal attributes, and project attributes. These attributes receive ratings that adjust the effort multiplier. The advanced COCOMO is an empirically derived model that requires extensive parameter calibration. All forms provide estimates of effort, schedule, and staff required for a software project.
Function Point Analysis & Cocomo. Two main estimation methods for structured and object oriented methodology estimations. Cocomo is widely used in estimating where Rational Unified Process is followed.
The document discusses several popular effort estimation methodologies including function points and COCOMO. It provides examples of using function points and COCOMO I to estimate effort and schedule for a simple POWER function project estimated to be 100 lines of code. Estimates using different approaches were: 5 person days and 3 calendar days from personal experience, 7.9 person days and 7.9 calendar days from function points, and 6.7 person days and 1.5 calendar months from COCOMO I. The document notes challenges with estimation models and many professionals rely on their own experience and company data.
Software Cost Estimation in Software Engineering SE23koolkampus
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Software cost estimation involves predicting resources required for development using metrics like productivity, size, and function points. The COCOMO 2 model is an empirical algorithmic model that estimates effort as a function of product, project, and process attributes. It operates at three levels - early prototyping based on object points, early design using function points mapped to lines of code, and post-architecture directly using lines of code. Key cost drivers include requirements, personnel experience, reuse, and development flexibility.
COCOMO II es un modelo para estimar el coste, esfuerzo y tiempo de un proyecto de desarrollo de software basado en la cantidad de lĆneas de cĆ³digo y factores multiplicadores. Usa constantes y modos (orgĆ”nico, semilibre y rĆgido) para calcular el salario mensual necesario y el tiempo de desarrollo total. Proporciona una estimaciĆ³n inicial Ćŗtil pero no es fiable para proyectos muy pequeƱos debido a la subjetividad en la selecciĆ³n de variables.
COCOMO II es un modelo de estimaciĆ³n de costos de software desarrollado por Barry Boehm. Tiene tres modelos: ComposiciĆ³n de AplicaciĆ³n, DiseƱo Temprano y Post-Arquitectura. Estiman el esfuerzo requerido para un proyecto de software basado en el tamaƱo, complejidad y otros factores. La herramienta COCOMO II permite al usuario ingresar datos de un proyecto como lĆneas de cĆ³digo o puntos de funciĆ³n y calcula estimaciones iniciales de esfuerzo y costo.
The COCOMO model is a widely used software cost estimation model developed by Barry Boehm in 1981. It predicts effort, schedule, and staffing needs based on project size and characteristics. The Basic COCOMO model uses three development modes (Organic, Semidetached, Embedded) and a simple formula to estimate effort and schedule based on thousands of delivered source instructions. However, its accuracy is limited as it does not account for various project attributes known to influence costs. Function Point Analysis is an alternative size measurement that counts different types of system functions and complexity factors to estimate effort and cost.
1. Software project management involves planning, organizing, and controlling software development activities using scientific principles and techniques. It includes functions like scoping, planning, scheduling, and controlling.
2. Effective software project management focuses on people, product, process, and the project. It is important to manage stakeholders, recruit and train practitioners, define requirements and scope, select appropriate processes, and plan and track the project.
3. Project scheduling involves decomposing work into tasks, estimating efforts, identifying dependencies, and allocating tasks to time periods using tools like Gantt charts, PERT, and CPM to track progress against the schedule. Managing risks is also important for project success.
This document discusses software project scheduling. It defines software project scheduling as distributing estimated effort across a planned project duration by allocating effort to specific software engineering tasks. The objective is to create a set of engineering tasks that will enable completing the project on time. Building large software systems involves many interdependent tasks, making schedules important for understanding, managing, and evaluating project progress. Effective scheduling involves decomposing the project into tasks, establishing interdependencies, allocating time and effort, validating resources, assigning responsibilities, defining outcomes, and associating milestones.
The document discusses various techniques for project planning and cost estimation in software development projects. It covers topics such as project planning, scheduling, risk analysis, cost estimation models like COCOMO, and agile planning techniques like release planning in XP. Project planning involves breaking work into tasks, assigning resources, anticipating risks. Cost is estimated using experience-based techniques or algorithmic models that take into account factors like size, reuse, and team capabilities. Agile methods use iterative planning to select stories for increments based on priorities and progress.
SWE-401 - 3. Software Project Managementghayour abbas
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The document discusses various aspects of software project management including defining a software project, the need for software project management, roles and responsibilities of a project manager, key project management activities like planning, estimation, scheduling, resource management, risk management, execution and monitoring, communication management, configuration management, and change control. It also discusses tools that can help with project management like Gantt charts, PERT charts, resource histograms, and critical path analysis.
This document provides an overview of project planning and estimation techniques used in software development. It discusses plan-driven and agile planning approaches. For plan-driven projects, it describes creating a detailed project plan with work breakdown, scheduling, milestones and resource allocation. It also discusses estimation techniques like experience-based estimating and algorithmic models like COCOMO. COCOMO models like application composition, early design, reuse and post-architecture are explained for estimating effort at different stages. Factors affecting accuracy and uncertainty in estimates are also covered.
This document summarizes key aspects of project planning and estimation techniques discussed in a lecture. It covers topics like plan-driven vs agile development, project scheduling, estimation models like COCOMO II, and factors that affect estimation accuracy. Project planning involves breaking work into tasks, scheduling, and communicating the plan. Estimation can be experience-based or use algorithmic models factoring in attributes like size, team experience, and complexity.
This document discusses software project scheduling. It explains that project scheduling involves identifying tasks, determining dependencies between tasks, estimating task durations, allocating resources, and determining start and end dates. The critical path is the sequence of tasks that determines the project duration. The document also discusses software prototyping, which involves creating initial prototypes, reviewing them, and revising them based on feedback, to help define requirements before full development. Common prototyping methods include incremental, throwaway, extreme, and evolutionary prototyping.
This document discusses software project planning and management. It covers topics like planning for both plan-driven and agile development, project scheduling, estimation techniques, and managing risks. It defines key aspects of project management like establishing a project plan, scheduling tasks, identifying and addressing risks, and managing people and teams. Estimation techniques discussed include experience-based and algorithmic modeling approaches. The document emphasizes the importance of project planning, tracking progress against plans, and adjusting plans based on new information or changes in risks and priorities.
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Management is the process of getting things done through others, it is the process of coordinating people & other resources to achieve the goals of the organization. A project is a set of related tasks that are coordinated to achieve a specific objective in a given time limit. A project is well-defined task, which is a collection of several operations done in order to achieve a goal. Software is the program & all associated documentation & configuration data which is needed to make these programs operate correctly.
A Software Project is the complete procedure of software development from requirement gathering to testing & maintenance, carried out according to the execution methodologies, in a specified period of time to achieve intended software product.
This document discusses managing computing projects. It defines what a project and software project are, and explains the need for software project management. It describes triple constraints for software projects involving quality, cost, and schedule. Key software project management activities are outlined, including planning, scope management, estimation, scheduling, resource management, risk management, execution and monitoring. Common project management tools like Gantt charts, PERT charts, and resource histograms are also summarized.
The chapter discusses project planning, scheduling, and estimation techniques. It covers creating a project plan with tasks, durations, dependencies and resources. Scheduling involves representing the plan with bar charts and staff allocation charts. Estimation is challenging due to uncertainties but becomes more accurate over time. Planning in XP uses story-based planning with iterative selection of stories and releases.
The document discusses various aspects of project management for software development projects. It covers topics like project planning, estimation techniques, scheduling, risk analysis, quality management planning, change management planning, and plan-driven versus agile development approaches. Project planning involves breaking work into tasks, scheduling, and anticipating potential problems. Estimation considers factors like costs, resources, complexity, and historical data from similar projects. Scheduling graphically represents the project plan timeline. Agile methods use iterative development and flexible planning compared to plan-driven approaches.
Today as we see, software has become an inseparable part of human life. Almost everything we can look around is managed, controlled by software.
The goal of software project management is to understand, plan, measure, and control the project such that it is delivered on time and on budget. This involves gathering requirements, managing risk, monitoring and controlling progress, and following a software development process.
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Software Project Management :
A project is well-defined task, which is a collection of several operations done in order to
achieve a goal (for example, software development and delivery). A Project can be characterized
as:
1) Every project may has a unique and distinct goal.
2) Project is not routine activity or day-to-day operations.
3) Project comes with a start time and end time.
4) Project ends when its goal is achieved hence it is a temporary phase in the lifetime of an
organization.
5) Project needs adequate resources in terms of time, manpower, finance, material and
knowledge-bank.
Software Project :
A Software Project is the complete procedure of software development from requirement
gathering to testing and maintenance, carried out according to the execution methodologies, in a
specified period of time to achieve intended software product.
Need of software project management :
Software is said to be an intangible product. Software development is a kind of all new stream in
world business and thereās very little experience in building software products.
Software Project Manager :
A software project manager is a person who undertakes the responsibility of executing the
software project. Software project manager is thoroughly aware of all the phases of SDLC that
the software would go through. Project manager may never directly involve in producing the end
product but he controls and manages the activities involved in production.
Managing People :
1) Act as project leader
2) Liaison with stakeholders
3) Managing human resources
4) Setting up reporting hierarchy etc.
Managing Project :
1) Defining and setting up project scope .
2) Managing project management activities .
3)Monitoring progress and performance
4) Risk analysis at every phase .
5) Take necessary step to avoid or come out of problems .
6) Act as project spokesperson .
Software Management Activities :
Software project management comprises of a number of activities, which contains planning of
project, deciding scope of software product, estimation of cost in various terms, scheduling of
tasks and events, and resource management. Project management activities may include:
1) Project Planning
2) Scope Management
3) Project Estimation
Project Planning :
Software project planning is task, which is performed before the production of software actually
starts. It is there for the software production but involves no concrete activity that has any
direction connection with software production; rather it is a set of multiple processes, which
facilitates software production.
Scope Management :
It defines the scope of project; this includes all the activities, process need to be done in order to
make a deliverable software product. Scope management is essential because it creates
boundaries of the project by clearly defining what would be done in the project and what would
not be done. This makes.
This document discusses project planning and scheduling for the construction of a residential building. It provides an overview of the project, which involves constructing a G+1 building of approximately 1100 square feet in Shahnoorwadi, India. It describes collecting project data, using the Primavera Project Planner software to develop a network diagram and schedule, and generating reports to analyze the critical path of the project. The objectives are to prepare a CPM chart for the building and gain experience using the Primavera scheduling tool.
Project planning is essential for software projects. It involves estimating the work, resources, and time required. Key planning activities include defining problems and requirements, developing solution strategies, and planning development processes. Requirements planning is especially important - it helps eliminate defects by gaining user involvement, understanding critical needs, and considering non-functional requirements. Empirical studies show most firms plan feasibility and costs, though risk management practices vary. Thorough early planning is needed to estimate schedules, efforts, people and resources needed for a project's success.
The document discusses various aspects of project planning and management including:
1. The planning process which involves project identification, formulation, and preparation including market analysis, technical factors, and project appraisal.
2. Methods of project budgeting, cost estimation, and risk management.
3. Tools used in project planning such as the work breakdown structure, scheduling, budgeting, and forecasting.
4. The importance of market analysis and demand forecasting in the planning process.
This document discusses software cost estimation. It begins by distinguishing between effort, which is the number of hours of work required, and time, which is the duration from start to finish. It then describes factors that influence cost estimation, such as project type and size, and development team size. Finally, it outlines several techniques used for cost estimation, including algorithmic models, expert judgment, top-down estimation, and bottom-up estimation.
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2. ā¢ Ian Sommerille. Software Engineering 9th Edition,
chapters 22 ā 26.
ā¢ IBM Rational Unified Process 7.0
ā¢ Charles G. Cobb. Making Sense of Agile Project
Management: Balancing Control and Agility. 2011 by John
Wiley & Sons.
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4. Project Planning
ā¢ PP is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and
techniques to project activities to meet project
requirements. It is accomplished through the
application and integration of the project management
processes of initiating, planning, executing, monitoring
and controlling, and closing (PMBOK).
ā¢ Software engineering is a managed process. The
software development takes place within an
organization and is subject to a range of schedule,
budget, and organizational constraints.
5. Project Planning paradox:
ā¢ The project managerās job is to ensure that the
software project meets and overcomes these
constraints as well as delivering high-quality software.
ā¢ Good management cannot guarantee project success.
However, bad management usually results in
project failure: the software may be delivered late,
cost more than originally estimated, or fail to meet the
expectations of customers.
6. Project Planning
The success criteria for project management obviously
vary from project to project but, for most projects,
important goals are:
1. Deliver the software to the customer at the agreed time.
2. Keep overall costs within budget.
3. Deliver software that meets the customerās
expectations.
4. Maintain a happy and well-functioning development
team.
7. Project Planning challenges
Software engineering is different from other types of engineering in a number of ways
that make software management particularly challenging. Some of these differences
are:
1. Software is intangible: Software project managers cannot see progress by simply
looking at the artifact that is being constructed. Rather, they rely on others to produce
evidence that they can use to review the progress of the work.
2. Large software projects are often āone-off ā projects: Large software projects are
usually different in some ways from previous projects. Therefore, even managers
who have a large body of previous experience may find it difficult to anticipate
problems. Furthermore, rapid technological changes in computers and
communications can make a managerās experience obsolete. Lessons learned from
previous projects may not be transferable to new projects.
3. Software processes are variable and organization-specific: software processes
vary quite significantly from one organization to another. Although there has been
significant progress in process standardization and improvement, we still cannot reliably
predict when a particular software process is likely to lead to development problems.
This is especially true when the software project is part of a wider systems engineering
project.
8. Project managers responsibilities (I)
Most managers take responsibility at some stage for some
or all of the following activities:
1. Project planning: Project managers are responsible
for planning, estimating and scheduling project
development, and assigning people to tasks.
They supervise the work to ensure that it is carried
out to the required standards and monitor progress to
check that the development is on time and within
budget.
9. Project managers responsibilities (II)
2. Reporting: Project managers are usually responsible for
reporting on the progress of a project to customers and to
the managers of the company developing the software. They
have to be able to communicate at a range of levels, from
detailed technical information to management summaries.
They have to write concise, coherent documents that abstract
critical information from detailed project reports. They must be
able to present this information during progress reviews.
3. Risk management: Project managers have to assess the
risks that may affect a project, monitor these risks, and take
action when problems arise.
10. Project managers responsibilities (III)
4. People management: Project managers are responsible for
managing a team of people. They have to choose people for
their team and establish ways of working that lead to effective
team performance.
11. Project managers responsibilities (IV)
5. Proposal writing: The first stage in a software project may
involve writing a proposal to win a contract to carry out an item
of work.
The proposal describes the objectives of the project and how it
will be carried out. It usually includes cost and schedule
estimates and justifies why the project contract should be
awarded to a particular organization or team.
Proposal writing is a critical task as the survival of many
software companies depends on having enough proposals
accepted and contracts awarded. There can be no set
guidelines for this task; proposal writing is a skill that you
acquire through practice and experience.
12. Project Planning (I)
ā¢ Project planning is one of the most important jobs of a
software project manager. As a manager, you have to
break down the work into parts and assign these to
project team members, anticipate problems that might
arise, and prepare tentative solutions to those
problems.
ā¢ The project plan, which is created at the start of a
project, is used to communicate how the work will be
done to the project team and customers, and to help
assess progress on the project.
ā¢ Project planning takes place at three stages in a project
life cycle:
13. Project Planning (II)
1. At the proposal stage, when you are bidding for a contract
to develop or provide a software system. You need a plan at
this stage to help you decide if you have the resources to
complete the work and to work out the price that you should
quote to a customer.
2. During the project startup phase, when you have to plan
who will work on the project, how the project will be
broken down into increments, how resources will be
allocated across your company, etc. Here, you have more
information than at the proposal stage, and can therefore refine
the initial effort estimates that you have prepared.
14. Project Planning (III)
3. Periodically throughout the project, when you modify your plan
in light of experience gained and information from monitoring the
progress of the work.
You learn more about the system being implemented and
capabilities of your development team. This information
allows you to make more accurate estimates of how long the
work will take. Furthermore, the software requirements are likely
to change and this usually means that the work breakdown has to
be altered and the schedule extended.
For traditional development projects, this means that the plan
created during the startup phase has to be modified. However,
when an agile approach is used, plans are shorter term and
continually change as the software evolves.
15. The ugly true is thatā¦
Planning at the proposal stage is inevitably speculative,
as you do not usually have a complete set of
requirements for the software to be developed.
Rather, you have to respond to a call for proposals based on
a high-level description of the software functionality that is
required. A plan is often a required part of a proposal, so you
have to produce a credible plan for carrying out the work.
If you win the contract, you then usually have to replan the
project, taking into account changes since the proposal was
made.
16. More about the reallity
ā¢ The project plan always evolves during the development
process.
ā¢ Development planning is intended to ensure that the
project plan remains a useful document for staff to
understand what is to be achieved and when it is to be
delivered.
ā¢ Therefore, the schedule, cost estimate, and risks all have
to be revised as the software is developed.
17. More about the reallity (II)
ā¢ If an agile method is used, there is still a need for a project
startup plan, as regardless of the approach used, the
company still needs to plan how resources will be
allocated to a project.
ā¢ However, this is not a detailed plan and should include
only limited information about the work breakdown
and project schedule.
ā¢ During development, an informal project plan and effort
estimates are drawn up for each release of the software,
with the whole team involved in the planning process
20. Project plan structure
1. Introduction. This briefly describes the objectives of the project and sets out the
constraints (e.g., budget, time, etc.) that affect the management of the project.
2. Project organization. This describes the way in which the development team is
organized, the people involved, and their roles in the team.
3. Risk analysis. This describes possible project risks, the likelihood of these risks arising,
and the risk reduction strategies that are proposed.
4. Hardware and software resource requirements. This specifies the hardware and
support software required to carry out the development. If hardware has to be bought,
estimates of the prices and the delivery schedule may be included.
5. Work breakdown. This sets out the breakdown of the project into activities and identifies
the milestones and deliverables associated with each activity. Milestones are key stages in
the project where progress can be assessed; deliverables are work products that are
delivered to the customer.
6. Project schedule. This shows the dependencies between activities, the estimated time
required to reach each milestone, and the allocation of people to activities.
7. Monitoring and reporting mechanisms. This defines the management reports that
should be produced, when these should be produced, and the project monitoring
mechanisms to be used.
23. Project scheduling (I)
ā¢ Project scheduling is the process of deciding how the
work in a project will be organized as separate tasks,
and when and how these tasks will be executed.
ā¢ You estimate the calendar time needed to complete each
task, the effort required, and who will work on the tasks
that have been identified.
ā¢ You also have to estimate the resources needed to
complete each task, such as the disk space required on a
server, the time required on specialized hardware, such as
a simulator, and what the travel budget will be.
24. Project scheduling (II)
ā¢ Both plan-based and agile processes need an initial project schedule,
although the level of detail may be less in an agile project plan. This
initial schedule is used to plan how people will be allocated to projects
and to check the progress of the project against its contractual
commitments.
ā¢ In traditional development processes, the complete schedule is
initially developed and then modified as the project progresses.
ā¢ In agile processes, there has to be an overall schedule that
identifies when the major phases of the project will be completed.
An iterative approach to scheduling is then used to plan each
phase
ā¢ Scheduling in plan-driven projects involves breaking down the
total work involved in a project into separate tasks and estimating
the time required to complete each task. Tasks should normally
last at least a week, and no longer than 2 months.
26. Risk in project planning
ā¢ Risk management involves anticipating risks that might
affect the project schedule or the quality of the software
being developed, and then taking action to avoid these
risks
ā¢ You should record the results of the risk analysis in
the project plan along with a consequence analysis,
which sets out the consequences of the risk for the
project, product, and business. Effective risk
management makes it easier to cope with problems
and to ensure that these do not lead to unacceptable
budget or schedule slippage
27. Kind of risks
ā¢ Project risks: Risks that affect the project schedule or resources. An
example of a project risk is the loss of an experienced designer.
Finding a replacement designer with appropriate skills and experience
may take a long time and, consequently, the software design will take
longer to complete.
ā¢ Product risks: Risks that affect the quality or performance of the
software being developed. An example of a product risk is the failure of
a purchased component to perform as expected. This may affect the
overall performance of the system so that it is slower than expected.
ā¢ Business risks: Risks that affect the organization developing or
procuring the software. For example, a competitor introducing a new
product is a business risk. The introduction of a competitive product
may mean that the assumptions made about sales of existing software
products may be unduly optimistic.
29. Risks Management
1. Risk identification: You should identify possible
project, product, and business risks.
2. Risk analysis: You should assess the likelihood
and consequences of these risks.
3. Risk planning: You should make plans to
address the risk, either by avoiding it or minimizing
its effects on the project.
4. Risk monitoring: You should regularly assess
the risk and your plans for risk mitigation and revise
these when you learn more about the risk.
31. Risks Identification (I)
1. Technology risks: Risks that derive from the software or hardware
technologies that are used to develop the system.
2. People risks: Risks that are associated with the people in the
development team.
3. Organizational risks: Risks that derive from the organizational
environment where the software is being developed.
4. Tools risks: Risks that derive from the software tools and other
support software used to develop the system.
5. Requirements risks: Risks that derive from changes to the
customer requirements and the process of managing the requirements
change.
6. Estimation risks: Risks that derive from the management
estimates of the resources required to build the system
33. Risks Analysis
ā¢ During the risk analysis process, you have to consider each identified
risk and make a judgment about the probability and seriousness of that
risk.
ā¢ There is no easy way to do this. You have to rely on your own
judgment and experience of previous projects and the problems that
arose in them.
ā¢ It is not possible to make precise, numeric assessment of the
probability and seriousness of each risk. Rather, you should assign the
risk to one of a number of bands:
1. The probability of the risk might be assessed as very low (0-
10%), low (10ā25%), moderate (25ā50%), high (50ā75%), or
very high (+ 75%).
2. The effects of the risk might be assessed as catastrophic
(threaten the survival of the project), serious (would cause
major delays), tolerable (delays are within allowed
contingency), or insignificant.
35. Risks Planning
ā¢ The risk planning process considers each of the key risks
that have been identified, and develops strategies to
manage these risks.
ā¢ For each of the risks, you have to think of actions that you
might take to minimize the disruption to the project if the
problem identified in the risk occurs.
ā¢ You also should think about information that you might
need to collect while monitoring the project so that
problems can be anticipated
ā¢ Again, there is no simple process that can be followed for
contingency planning. It relies on the judgment and
experience of the project manager
37. Risks Planning strategies
ā¢ Avoidance strategies: Following these strategies
means that the probability that the risk will arise
will be reduced.
ā¢ Minimization strategies: Following these
strategies means that the impact of the risk will be
reduced.
ā¢ Contingency plans: Following these strategies
means that you are prepared for the worst and
have a strategy in place to deal with it.
38. Risks monitoring
ā¢ Risk monitoring is the process of checking that your
assumptions about the product, process, and business
risks have not changed.
ā¢ You should regularly assess each of the identified risks to
decide whether or not that risk is becoming more or less
probable.
ā¢ You should also think about whether or not the effects of the risk
have changed
ā¢ You should monitor risks regularly at all stages in a project. At
every management review, you should consider and discuss
each of the key risks separately.
ā¢ You should decide if the risk is more or less likely to arise and if
the seriousness and consequences of the risk have changed.
40. Project planning according with RUP (I)
ā¢ In the Rational Unified Process, the Project Management
discipline provides the framework whereby a project is
created and managed. In doing so, all other core
disciplinesāRequirements, Analysis and Design,
Implementation, Test, and Deploymentāare utilized as
part of managing the project.
ā¢ The RUP Project Management discipline utilizes the
project management principlesābalancing competing
objectives, managing risk, and overcoming obstacles to
deliver the ārightā productāand enables RUP project
managers to manage software projects in a way that will
significantly increase the probability of delivering
successful software
41. Project planning according with RUP (II)
The Project Management discipline has three purposes:
ā¢ To provide a framework for managing software-intensive
projects
ā¢ To provide practical guidelines for planning, staffing,
executing, and monitoring projects
ā¢ To provide a framework for managing risk
42. Key artifacts for PP in RUP (I)
Business Case
This artifact provides the necessary information from a business
standpoint to determine whether this project is worth investing in. For a
commercial software product, the Business Case should include a
set of assumptions about the project and the order of magnitude
return on investment (ROI) if those assumptions are true. The Project
Manager checks these assumptions again at the end of the Elaboration
phase, when the scope and plan are defined with more accuracy.
Noncommercial software has a range of other aspects that need to be
captured, including but not limited to the following:
ā¢ Alignment of the product of this project (software product or service)
with business goals and project vision
ā¢ Improvements or efficiencies expected to be realized as a result of this
software
ā¢ Role played by the product of this project in enabling the core business
ā¢ Other areas that will rationalize the investment
43. Key artifacts for PP in RUP (II)
Software Development Plan
ā¢ The purpose of this artifact is to gather all the information
necessary to control the project.
ā¢ This artifact describes the software development
approach and is the top-level plan generated and used
by the managers to direct the development effort.
ā¢ This artifact provides a project overview, describes the
project team and a project plan (by phases), and
serves as a reference to iteration plans for each
iteration (within a phase). This artifact, therefore, is
comprehensive and includes a number of artifacts
developed during the Inception phase.
44. Key artifacts for PP in RUP (III)
Software Development Plan
Main components of SDP
ā¢ Measurement Plan
ā¢ Risk Management Plan
ā¢ Product Acceptance Plan
ā¢ Problem Resolution Plan
ā¢ Quality Assurance Plan
45. Key artifacts for PP in RUP (IV)
ā¢ Iteration Plan
ā¢ Review Record
ā¢ Risk List
ā¢ Issues List
ā¢ Status Assessment
ā¢ Work Order
ā¢ Deployment Plan
48. Project planning according with Agile (I)
ā¢ Unlike plan-driven approaches, in agile projects the
functionality of these increments is not planned in advance
but is decided during the development.
ā¢ The decision on what to include in an increment
depends on progress and on the customerās priorities.
ā¢ The argument for this approach is that the customerās
priorities and requirements change so it makes sense to
have a flexible plan that can accommodate these changes
49. Project planning according with Agile (II)
There are two important benefits from this approach to task
allocation:
1. The whole team gets an overview of the tasks to be
completed in an iteration. They therefore have an
understanding of what other team members are doing and
who to talk to if task dependencies are identified.
2. Individual developers choose the tasks to implement;
they are not simply allocated tasks by a project manager.
They therefore have a sense of ownership in these tasks
and this is likely to motivate them to complete the task.
51. Difficulties in agile planning
ā¢ A major difficulty in agile planning is that it is reliant on
customer involvement and availability. In practice, this can
be difficult to arrange, as the customer representative must
sometimes give priority to other work. Customers may be more
familiar with traditional project plans and may find it difficult to
engage in an agile planning project.
ā¢ Agile planning works well with small, stable development teams
that can get together and discuss the stories to be implemented.
However, where teams are large and/or geographically
distributed, or when team membership changes frequently, it is
practically impossible for everyone to be involved in the
collaborative planning that is essential for agile project
management. Consequently, large projects are usually planned
using traditional approaches to project management.