Planning And Managing A Software Project

I INITIAL PLANNING

1. Introduction

1.1 Course Overview
1.2 Software Process as the Framework for Software Engineering Preface
1.3 Facts and Myths about Software Engineering
1.4 Overview of the Planning Process

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2. Lifecycle Models

2.1 A General Model of a Lifecycle
2.2 The Project Lifecycle
2.3 The System Engineering Lifecycle
2.4 The Software Development Lifecycle

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3. Initial Planning 6

3.1 Overview
3.2 Understanding the Customer and the Requirements
3.3 Defining the Approach
3.4 Analyzing the Environment
3.5 Selecting Process and Methods

II. DETAILED PLANNING 6

4. Detailed Planning Overview and The Work Breakdown Structure

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5. Size Estimates -- Lines of Code / Function Points

6. Effort and Cost Analysis

7. Scheduling

8. The Software Development Plan

8.1 Contents of a Software Development Plan
8.2 Documentation

III OTHER MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

9. Risk Management 5,6

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9.1 Risk Management Process

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9.2 Risk Assessment

9.3 Risk Control

9.4 Risk Examples

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9.5 Risk Management Plan

10. Measuring and Monitoring 6,15

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10.1 Overview

10.2 Basic Issues

10.3 Selection of Metrics

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10.4 Recommended Metrics for a Software Manager

10.5 Issues with Metrics

11. Configuration Management 7, 12

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11.1 The Need for Configuration Management

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11.2 Configuration Management Functions

11.3 Configuration Management Responsibilities

11.4 Practical Problems

12. Software Quality Engineering and Assurance 8

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Managing Quality 16

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Engineering Quality 9,10

Software Testing 11

IV SOFTWARE PROCESS MATURITY

13 Software Process Maturity, Assessment and Improvement 1,2,3,4

13.1 Software Process Maturity

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13.2 The SEI Capability Maturity Model (CMM)

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13.3 Reviewing the Five Levels

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13.4 Details of Level 2

13.5 Assessment

14 Continuous Process Improvement 13,14,17

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