BUS ADM X434 - Software Project Management
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Review software project management and discuss the latest approaches, methodologies and standards of software development. You learn to evaluate initial development costs and schedules; define test and prototype activities; determine risk management approaches; and manage the full software life cycle from the proposal stage to the retirement stage. This course is intended for software managers and principal computer scientists.
Course Outline
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Course Objectives
Understand and apply the methodologies and standards used in managing the full software cycle from the proposal stage to the retirement stage.
What You'll Learn
- Definitions
- Goals
- Roles and responsibilities
- Planning and techniques
- Software life cycle
- Software Project Management Plan (SPMP)
- Computer Assisted Software Engineering Tools (CASE)
- Software development standards
- Cost estimation
- Budgets and resource costs
- Creating manloading schedules
- Cost estimation
- Measurement metrics
- Project planning and control
- Resource limitations
- Project management
- Risk management
- Prototyping
- Contingency planning
- Software configuration management
- Identification
- Version control
- Change control
- Audit trails
- Quality assurance
- Testing
- Automated scheduling software tools
- Management reporting
- Team business reports
How You'll Learn
- Lectures
- In-class discussions
- Review of case studies
- Midterm
- Final project
- Final exam