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SYLLABUS

Unit - 1 :

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 – Costbenefit evaluation technology – Risk evaluation – Strategic program Management – Stepwise Project Planning.

Unit - 2 :

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.

Unit - 3 :

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 (CPM) method – Risk identification – Assessment – Risk Planning – Risk Management – – PERT technique – Monte Carlo simulation – Resource Allocation – Creation of critical paths – Cost schedules.

Unit - 4 :

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.

Unit - 5 :

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