This document discusses software project management. It defines what constitutes a project and how software projects differ from other types of projects due to characteristics like invisibility and complexity. The document outlines the typical phases of a software development life cycle according to ISO 12207 standards. It also discusses the importance of setting clear, measurable objectives and establishing management controls to track progress and make adjustments throughout the project.
An achievement of a project depends upon creating and adapting the best solution which depends upon a sound and robust Business Case which helps product managers to baseline the requirement.
The investment outcome depends on the adopting best business case strategies and the product managers should be well qualified in business case writing skills.
Objective:
This one day program will allow participants to learn the values of writing an effective Business Case, within the context of an interactive course driven by a case study.
This one day training is practical based training wherein participants will go through a hands-on interactive course by a progressive business case writing techniques.
In a world of agile development and DevOps is architecture still relevant? Yes but having a lightweight approach that is compatible with an agile approach makes a lot of sense in the age of digital disruption.
You’re probably reading this article because you want to know how to write a business case. Perhaps your organization is embarking on a major project to develop a new product. Or, perhaps you’re thinking of moving house so your family can enjoy a better life. In either case, you write a business case to ensure the investment is worthwhile.
In this Business Analysis training session, you will learn about Enterprise Analysis. Topics covered in this session are:
• Enterprise analysis
• SWOT Analysis
• Feasibility Evaluation
• Problem Statement & Goal Statement
• Business Case
• Project Scope Statement & Vision Document
• AS IS (current state) and TO BE (future state)
• Root Cause Analysis – Fish Bone Diagram
For more information, click here: https://www.mindsmapped.com/courses/business-analysis/business-analysis-training-for-beginners-as-per-babok-v3/
An achievement of a project depends upon creating and adapting the best solution which depends upon a sound and robust Business Case which helps product managers to baseline the requirement.
The investment outcome depends on the adopting best business case strategies and the product managers should be well qualified in business case writing skills.
Objective:
This one day program will allow participants to learn the values of writing an effective Business Case, within the context of an interactive course driven by a case study.
This one day training is practical based training wherein participants will go through a hands-on interactive course by a progressive business case writing techniques.
In a world of agile development and DevOps is architecture still relevant? Yes but having a lightweight approach that is compatible with an agile approach makes a lot of sense in the age of digital disruption.
You’re probably reading this article because you want to know how to write a business case. Perhaps your organization is embarking on a major project to develop a new product. Or, perhaps you’re thinking of moving house so your family can enjoy a better life. In either case, you write a business case to ensure the investment is worthwhile.
In this Business Analysis training session, you will learn about Enterprise Analysis. Topics covered in this session are:
• Enterprise analysis
• SWOT Analysis
• Feasibility Evaluation
• Problem Statement & Goal Statement
• Business Case
• Project Scope Statement & Vision Document
• AS IS (current state) and TO BE (future state)
• Root Cause Analysis – Fish Bone Diagram
For more information, click here: https://www.mindsmapped.com/courses/business-analysis/business-analysis-training-for-beginners-as-per-babok-v3/
A Business Idea upto the Feasibility Analysis: EntrepreneurshipSultan Islam
This task we have prepared for our Entrepreneurship course, a business idea along with its feasibility analysis. The we developed is based on the sylhet region particularly to some extent.
Part of a lecture series on fundamental project management concepts, the lecture presents an overview of project selection methods: scoring,benefit contribution, and economic models.
Software Engineering Economics Life Cycle.Sulman Ahmed
Software Engineering Economics Life Cycle.
Software Engineering Economics Life Cycle.
Software Engineering Economics Life Cycle.
Software Engineering Economics Life Cycle.
Software Engineering Economics Life Cycle.
A Business Idea upto the Feasibility Analysis: EntrepreneurshipSultan Islam
This task we have prepared for our Entrepreneurship course, a business idea along with its feasibility analysis. The we developed is based on the sylhet region particularly to some extent.
Part of a lecture series on fundamental project management concepts, the lecture presents an overview of project selection methods: scoring,benefit contribution, and economic models.
Software Engineering Economics Life Cycle.Sulman Ahmed
Software Engineering Economics Life Cycle.
Software Engineering Economics Life Cycle.
Software Engineering Economics Life Cycle.
Software Engineering Economics Life Cycle.
Software Engineering Economics Life Cycle.
Digital Signature, Electronic Signature, How digital signature works, Confidentiality of digital signature, Authenticity of digital signature, Integrity of digital signature, standard of digital signature, Algorithm of digital signature, Mathematical base of digital signature, parameters of digital signature, key computation of digital signature, key generation of digital signature, verification of of digital signature
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to improve as to provide the better encryption processes for security. In our proposed work, an innovative and
practical authentication system using Diffie-Hellman and AMA (Anonymous Micro payments Authentication)
are designed for micropayments in mobile data network. Through AMA the customer and the merchant can
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The two key questions are:
What exactly is software project management?
This is going to be tackled by looking firstly at what is meant by ‘project’. We are then going to examine whether ‘software project management’ is really different from ‘normal’ project management. Is there anything special about software as opposed to other engineered artefacts?
2. How do we define whether a project is a success or not?
The point about studying project management is to be able to have successful projects. So how do we know if we have been successful?
Here are some definitions of ‘project’. No doubt there are other ones: for example
‘Unique process, consisting of a set of coordinated and controlled activities with start and finish dates, undertaken to achieve an objective conforming to specific requirements, including constraints of time, cost and resources’
BSO ISO 10006: 1997
On the one hand there are repetitive jobs a similar task is carried out repeatedly, for example Kwikfit replacing a tyre on a car or a lecturer giving an introductory talk on project management. The task is well-defined and there is very little uncertainty. In some organizations, software development might tend to be like this – in these environments software process management might be more important than software project management
On the other hand some exploratory activities are very uncertain. Some research projects can be like this – we may not be sure what the outcome will be, but we hope that we will learn some things of importance. It may be very difficult to come up with precise plans, although we would probably have some idea of a general approach.
Projects seem to come somewhere between these two extremes. There are usually well-defined hoped-for outcomes but there are risks and uncertainties about achieving those outcomes.
Exercise 1.1 in the Software Project Management text is a good way of introducing this material if you have time. I have found this exercise to be a good ‘ice-breaker’. Get each student to list the example activities in an order which matches the degree to which they merit the description of ‘project’. You can create a grid on a whiteboard with the projects on the vertical axis and the positions 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc on the horizontal axis. You then go through asking how many put ‘producing a newspaper’ first, second, etc. (Avoid making jokes about this being like the Eurovision song contest). This is time-consuming but it does mean that every student participates in building up a general picture of people’s perceptions, and you can discuss disagreements in perceptions as you go along.
This is based on Fred Brooks’ paper No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering which appeared in IEEE Computer 20(4) pp10-19 April 1987
There are two key points here.
Often you see something like ‘feasibility study’ being put as the first stage of development life cycle, and indeed it might be. However, the outcome of the feasibility study might be not to carry out the proposed project. Planning of the project should therefore take place after the feasibility study (or as a part of the feasibility study perhaps). Clearly the feasibility study itself might need a plan.
All plans are to some extent provisional and subject to change. The key point is that the evolving plan allows us to control the project.
This section of the lecture discusses the software development life cycle. Note that this is a technical model. It identifies the technical constraints on the order activities are done. This does NOT imply that a ‘waterfall’ approach is the only way to organize projects. The technical model could be implemented as increments or in an evolutionary manner.
The key point here is that requirement analysis has to face in (at least) two different directions. It needs to communicate and elicit the requirements of the users, speaking in their language. It needs to organize and translate those requirements into a form that developers can understand and relate to.
The software project will almost certainly be part of a larger project which has non-software elements. In a software engineering environment it could be the software will be embedded in hardware product of some kind. Thus there are system requirements for the product as a whole and software requirements for the software element.
In a business information systems environment, the software development could be a relatively minor part of a much larger organizational change project.
The confusion about what ‘implementation’ really means could be mentioned. Does it mean implementing the design (that is, coding) or implementing the complete system in its user environment? It is best to use ‘installation’ to describe the latter in order to avoid confusion.
With objective-based projects, a general objective or problem is defined, and there are several different ways in which that objective could be reached. The project team have freedom to select what appears to be the most appropriate approach.
With product-based projects, the product is already very strictly defined and the development team’s job is to implement the specification with which they have been presented.
Arguably, information systems projects are more likely to be objective-based than is the case with software engineering.
In many cases, an objective-based project could consider a problem and recommend a solution that is then implemented by a product-based project.
Exercise 1.5 in the text is relevant here.
This list is based on one that can be found in Introduction to Software Project Management and Quality Assurance by Darrel Ince, Helen Sharp and Mark Woodman, McGraw-Hill, 1993.
Exercise 1.6 (a day in the life of a project manager) is of relevance here.
Different people who are involved in a project (Stakeholders) will have different interests in the project and are likely to see different outcomes as being important.
For example, end-users would want a system that is ‘user-friendly’, that is, easy to learn and to use, and a system that helps rather than hinders them from doing their jobs. Their managers may be more interested in whether the new system would allow them to reduce staffing levels.
It is important therefore that a set of clearly defined objectives are identified and published for the project. Some individual or group needs to be pinpointed who acts as the main client for the project.
See Exercise 1.7 in the text.
The focus here needs to be on what the situation will be when the project is completed. In what ways will the world be different? The objectives should avoid describing activities:
e.g. ‘a new payroll application will be operational by 4th April’ not ‘design and code a new payroll application’
I have seen some places where the R is said to stand for ‘resource-constrained’, that is that there is a target cost associated with the achievement of the objective.
Scoring a goal in football is a ‘goal’ or sub-objective on the way to achieving the overall objective of winning the match. Sub-objectives and objectives can be nested in a hierarchy, so that the objective of winning the match could itself be a goal or sub-objective on the way to winning the league etc.
Goals can be formulated in such a way that they represent what an individual or group need to do to contribute to the success of the project’s objectives.
In the example above, the analyst or developer, by themselves, cannot guarantee user satisfaction. However, the analyst can contribute to the achievement of the objective by making sure the users’ requirements are accurately recorded and the developer by making sure that the software is reliable.
See Exercise 1.7 in the text.
See Exercise 1.8 in the text.
Each stakeholder will have their own goals and concerns in relation to the project which may be different from those of the project as a whole. For example, a software developer might work to make a living, pay the mortgage, learn new things, solve interesting problems. The main stakeholders need, however, to understand and accept the overall project objectives.
It is not always possible to put a precise financial on the benefits of a project. The client’s willingness to pay up to a certain price to get a project implemented implies that they have informally identified a value to them of getting that project implemented.
This is explained on the next overhead.
This example is expanded in the text.
The authors’ view is that an initially defective plan can often be remedied by good project control and management. This could be a discussion point.