JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD 
IV Year B.Tech. CSE -I Sem T P C 
4+1* 0 4 
SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT 
(Elective-II) 

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UNIT - I 

Conventional Software Management : The waterfall model, conventional software Management performance. 

Evolution of Software Economics : Software Economics, pragmatic software cost estimation. 

UNIT - II 

Improving Software Economics : Reducing Software product size, improving software processes, improving team effectiveness, improving automation, Achieving required quality, peer inspections. 

The old way and the new : The principles of conventional software Engineering, principles of modern software management, transitioning to an iterative process. 

UNIT - III 

Life cycle phases : Engineering and production stages, inception, Elaboration, construction, transition phases. 

Artifacts of the process : The artifact sets, Management artifacts, Engineering artifacts, programmatic artifacts. 

UNIT - IV 

Model based software architectures : A Management perspective and technical perspective. Work Flows of the process : Software process workflows, Iteration workflows. 

UNIT - V 

Checkpoints of the process : Major mile stones, Minor Milestones, Periodic status assessments. Iterative Process Planning : Work breakdown structures, planning guidelines, cost and schedule estimating, Iteration planning process, Pragmatic planning. 

UNIT - VI 

Project Organizations and Responsibilities : Line-of-Business Organizations, Project Organizations, evolution of Organizations. 

Process Automation : Automation Building blocks, The Project Environment. 

UNIT - VII 

Project Control and Process instrumentation : The seven core Metrics, Management indicators, quality indicators, life cycle expectations, pragmatic Software Metrics, Metrics automation. 

Tailoring the Process : Process discriminants. 

UNIT - VIII 

Future Software Project Management : Modern Project Profiles, Next generation Software economics, modern process transitions. 

Case Study: The command Center Processing and Display system- Replacement (CCPDS-R) 

TEXT BOOK : 

1. Software Project Management, Walker Royce: Pearson Education, 2005. 

REFERENCES : 

1. Software Project Management, Bob Hughes and Mike Cotterell: Tata McGraw-Hill Edition. 
2. Software Project Management, Joel Henry, Pearson Education. 
3. Software Project Management in practice, Pankaj Jalote, Pearson Education.2005.