Software Project Management (CSC425) — Notes, Syllabus & Past Questions

Methods for planning, estimating, and monitoring software development projects.

Elective Course9 Chapters

Introduction to Software Project Management

Software engineering problem and software product, software product attributes, Definition of a Software Project (SP), SP Vs. other types of projects activities covered by SPM, categorizing SPs.

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Chapter 2Past Questions

Project Analysis

Introduction, strategic assessment, technical assessment, economic analysis: Present worth, future worth, annual worth, internal rate of return (IRR) method, benefit-cost ratio analysis.

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Chapter 3Past Questions

Activity Planning and Scheduling

Objectives of activity planning, Work breakdown structure, Bar chart, Network planning model: Critical path method (CPM), Program evaluation and review technique (PERT).

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Risk Management

Introduction, nature and identification of risk, risk analysis, evaluation of risk to the schedule using Z-values.

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Resource Allocation

Identifying resource requirements, resource allocation, resource smoothening and resource balancing.

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Monitoring and Control

Introduction, collecting data, visualizing progress, cost monitoring, earned value analysis, project control.

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Chapter 7Past Questions

Introduction, types of contract, stages in contract, placement, typical terms of a contract, contract management, acceptance, Managing people and organizing terms: Introduction, understanding behavior.

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Software quality assurance and testing

Testing principles and objectives, test plan, types and levels of testing, test strategies, program verification and validation, software quality, SEI-CMM, SQA activities, QA organization structure.

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Chapter 9Past Questions