The document discusses 7 top-level workflows for software project management: management, environment, requirements, design, implementation, assessment, and deployment. It also outlines 4 key principles: having an architecture-first approach, using an iterative life-cycle process, practicing roundtrip engineering, and taking a demonstration-based approach. Iterations consist of sequential activities from the various workflows in different proportions depending on the life cycle phase.

1. Software Project
Management
Walker Royce
Ms. Munazza mah Jabeen
Assistant professor – computer science

2. Workflows of the Process:
The term workflow is used to mean a thread of cohesive and most sequential activities:
There are seven top-level workflows:
 Management workflow: controlling the process and ensuring win conditions for all
stakeholders
 Environment workflow: automating the process and evolving the maintenance environment
 Requirements workflow: analysing the problem space and evolving the requirements
artefacts
 Design workflow: modelling the solution and evolving the architecture and design artefacts
 Implementation workflow: programming the components and evolving the implementation
and deployment artefacts
 Assessment workflow: assessing the trends in process and product quality
 Deployment workflow: transitioning the end products to the user

3. Software Process Workflows (Contd.)
Four basic key principles:
 Architecture-first approach: implementing and testing the architecture
must precede full-scale development and testing and must precede the
downstream focus on completeness and quality of the product features.
 Iterative life-cycle process: the activities and artefacts of any given
workflow may require more than one pass to achieve adequate results.
 Roundtrip engineering: Raising the environment activities to a first-class
workflow is critical; the environment is the tangible embodiment of the
project’s process and notations for producing the artefacts.
 Demonstration-based approach: Implementation and assessment
activities are initiated nearly in the life-cycle, reflecting the emphasis on
constructing executable subsets of the involving architecture.

4. Activity Level across the Life Cycle Phases

5. Iteration Workflows:
An iteration consist of sequential set of activities in various proportions, depending
on where the iteration is located in the development cycle.

6. Iteration Workflows (Contd.):