This document discusses software project management. It defines software, projects, and management. Software project management involves planning, implementing, monitoring, and controlling software projects to develop computer programs that meet requirements. It notes common problems with software projects like poor estimates and lack of quality standards. The document also describes the roles and responsibilities of a project manager, who is responsible for planning, directing, monitoring, and controlling all aspects of a project.

1. Software
Project
Management
Dr Meena Malik(meenamlk@gmail.com)

2. Software Project Management.
Software + Project +Management
• Software ??: Collection of computer programs and related
data
• Project??: a planned piece of work that has a specific
purpose & it comprises:
• Non-routine Tasks
• Planning is required
• Aiming at a specific target
• Work carried out for a customer
• Involving several specialism
• Made up of several different phases
• Constrained by time and resources
• Large and/or complex

3. Management??:
• Planning – deciding what is to be done
• Organizing – making arrangements
• Staffing – selecting the right people for the job
• Directing – giving instructions
• Monitoring – checking on progress
• Controlling – taking action to remedy hold-ups
• Innovating – coming up with solutions when problems emerge

4. Constraints on Project
Time: deliver the project as per schedule
Budget: keeping the cost within the client’s
budget
Quality: to deliver a quality product

5. Software project management
• an art and discipline of planning and supervising software
projects.
• Here software projects are planned, implemented,
monitored and controlled.
• a procedure of managing, allocating and timing resources
to develop computer software that fulfills requirements.

6. Problems with Software Projects
• Poor estimates and plans
• Lack of quality standards and measures
• Lack of guidance about making organizational decisions
• Lack of techniques to make progress visible
• Poor role definition- who does what?
• Incorrect success criteria
• Inadequate specification of work
• Management ignorance of IT
• Lack of standards
• Lack of up-to date documentation
• Late delivery
• Deadline pressure
• Remote management
• Lack of training
• Lack of quality control

7. Project Manager
• A project manager is a character who has the overall
responsibility for the planning, design, execution,
monitoring, controlling and closure of a project.
• A project manager represents an essential role in the
achievement of the projects.
• A project manager is a character who is responsible for
giving decisions, both large and small projects.
• The project manager is used to manage the risk and
minimize uncertainty.
• Every decision the project manager makes must directly
profit their project.

8. Role of a Project Manager
Leader
• A project manager must lead his team and should provide them
direction to make them understand what is expected from all of them.
Mediator
• The Project manager is a medium between his clients and his team. He
must coordinate and transfer all the appropriate information from the
clients to his team and report to the senior management.
Mentor
• He should be there to guide his team at each step and make sure that
the team has an attachment. He provides a recommendation to his
team and points them in the right direction

9. Responsibilities of a Project Manager
• Managing risks and issues.
• Create the project team and assigns tasks to several
team members.
• Activity planning and sequencing.
• Monitoring and reporting progress.
• Modifies the project plan to deal with the situation.

10. References
• Software Project management, Walker Royce, Addison
Wesley, 1998.
• https://www.javatpoint.com/software-project-management