Software project managers face unprecedented challenges including a shortage of resources, evolving development paradigms, and changing standards. They must plan, control, and organize projects to deliver on time and on budget by breaking large projects into smaller steps, using techniques to meet customer requirements, and understanding project management methods. Effective project management requires defining objectives and success criteria, creating detailed project plans, estimating costs and resources, involving users, managing risks and changes, testing thoroughly, controlling documentation, and ensuring successful implementation and project closure.

1. Software Project Management Asim Shahzad

2. Successful software development programs require effective software project managers. Software managers are facing issues today unprecedented in the history of software development: perhaps the greatest shortfall of software engineering resources in the past two decades, shifting software development paradigms (e.g., software systems that incorporate more COTS and less traditionally developed code), and the continued evolution of software development standards. Software Project Management

3. Activities plan, control and organize a software project that delivers on time and to cost divide a large project into small, manageable steps use techniques that enable the project to deliver the customer's requirements understand the major issues of project management and the methods and techniques for dealing with them understand the processes that have to be in place for a software project to meet it's objectives

4. The Software Process What distinguishes software development management How software can be managed like other projects Software development life-cycle (SDLC) models Choosing the right model Defining a project’s objectives Establishing criteria for success

5. The Software Development Project Plan Considerations for the project manager Contents of the project plan Planning tools and techniques Work breakdown structure (WBS) Scheduling Resource planning Rolling wave concepts

6. Software Cost and Resource Estimating Software estimating differences and challenges .Using appropriate estimating tools and techniques Engineering Analogy (Wideband Delphi Technique) Parametric relationships New development considerations Prototype methods Statistical methods

7. Organizing for Complete Involvement of the User Defining needs and requirements Distinguishing needs from wants User vs. customer—a critical distinction Roles and commitments of the user User’s participation in the SDLC

8. Modern Software Engineering Advantages and disadvantages of prototyping Using joint application design (JAD) Component-based development CASE tool considerations Capability maturity model Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) considerations

9. Managing the Process The need for incremental development Breaking a software project into manageable segments Planning and controlling the project Establishing software project teams Preparing a responsibility matrix Partnering with the user and subcontractors Why controlling change is important Handling requirements creep Project control tools and techniques Challenges and management problems in the SDLC

10. Managing Testing Establishing test objectives Preparing test plans Identifying testing responsibilities Recognizing testing pitfalls Determining the type of testing needed

11. Managing Documentation Requirements Need for usable documentation How to anticipate common management problems Solving the documentation dilemma Document control

12. Systems Implementation and Project Closeout Ensuring customer acceptance and sign-off Meeting all contractual obligations Reassigning project staff Conducting a post-implementation review Lessons-learned database