Software management involves applying knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques within a framework to successfully complete projects. It includes software risk management to identify, assess, evaluate, prioritize, and monitor risks. Quality assurance ensures software satisfies requirements systematically while quality control ensures a certain quality level is met. Software maintenance involves changing systems after delivery to correct errors or accommodate new requirements. The software management process involves initiation, planning, defining, verification, change control, cost estimation, and quality management with planning, assurance, and control to attain the desired quality.

1. SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

2. Software Management
• It is the application of knowledge, skills, tools
and techniques
• It has a framework of operation to lead to a
successful completion of the project.

3. Software Risk management
• It is a process of identifying, assessing,
evaluating risk exposure, prioritizing the risk
and developing risk monitoring plan

4. Quality Assurance
• It the process intended to ensure that the
software developed satisfies the requirement
in systematic and reliable fashion

5. Quality Control
• It is the process to ensure a certain level of
quality in the product
• It has to meet the desire quality of the
software demanded by the customer
• The basic requirement of quality control is to
ensure that the product , service or processes
provided meet specific requirements and are
dependable, satisfactory.

6. Software Maintenance
• The process of changing of system after it has
been delivered and is in use is called software
maintenance.
• The change may involve simple changes to
correct coding errors
• More extensive changes to correct desing
errors or significant enhancement to correct
specification errors
• Also to accommodate new requirments

7. Process of Software Management
• Initiation: Process to commit the organization
to start the project and come out with a
project document giving broad view of the
software
• Planning: Process of creating a document,
detailing the tasks and major deliverables.
• Defining: A process which breaks and scope
plan into smaller works units with clear
definition of ‘Star-Finish’ and its output

8. • Verification: this is a key process where all
concerned and affected people come to an
agreement on deliverables of the project,
process which will produce them.
• Change Control: It is formal process to control
the change post verification and agreement to
ensure that change brought in are
unavoidable and cannot be deferred in next
version of the software

9. • Cost: when a project is about to be done,
more detail estimate of resources, effort and
time, using different development strategies
takes place
• It is made cost effective, by maximizing the
resources available

10. • Quality: Quality in software management
refers to two things, on quality of software
product and the other quality of project life
cycle execution.
• Quality also has three dimensions in which it
needs to be achieved, such as cost, time and
scope.

11. • Attaining quality as desired by the customer
needs full fledge quality management
function embedded in the organization
structure, with the three basic processes,
namely quality planning, quality assurance
and quality control in place.