Software Project Management

Lecture 3
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 What are we studying till Ch. 3 ?
 Define Project Management?
 Product Vs project life cycle
 Product: The product life cycle consists of generally
sequential, non-overlapping product phases manufacturing
and control need of the organization.
 Project: The project life cycle is contained within one or
more product life cycles.

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Project life cycle pg.12 PMBOK

 In project management project has different phases, like

initiation, planning, design, and control which collectively
called as project life cycle.
 Sample generic life cycle:
Representation of Construction Project Life cycle
Representation of Pharmaceuticals
Project
Representation of Software
Development Project Life cycle
Phase to phase relationship
 1. A sequential relationship
 A phase can only start once the previous phase is complete.
The step by step nature of this approach reduces uncertainty.
 2. Overlapping relationship: the phase starts prior to
completion of the previos one.
 This may increase the risk and can result in rework.
  3. An iterative relationship: in this relationship planning for
the one phase is carried out at the given time and once work
in progresses on the current phase. Planning for the next is
carried out. This is useful in largely undefined and rapid
changing enviornments.

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 Project Stakeholders (Rep)

 Stakeholders are the people involved in or affected by project

activities.
 Stakeholders include:
 Project sponsor
 Project manager
 Project team
 Support staff
 Customers
 Users
 Suppliers
 Opponents to the project

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 Pg. 17 PMBOK

 Write down the stake holders of the pharmaceutical project!

Internal or external peoples, owners, funders, suppliers

Contractors, team members and their families, government
agencies, and media outlets, individual citizens, temporary or
permanent lobby of organizations, society and many more.

 Roles of these stakeholders can over lap.

Organizational influences pg.63

 Can a project is an organization ?

Projects are typical part of organization larger than a project.

Project is always influenced by the organization or organizations

that set it up.
 1. organizational structure
 2. organizational cultures and styles
 3. organizational process assets
1. Organizational structure
 2. organizational cultures and styles: Organizations develop
unique and describable cultures. They are not limited to:

 3. organizational process assets (includes all process related

to assets)
 A)process and procedures
 Standards and polices
 Work instructions
 Templates e.g: work breakdown, project schedule
 Organization communication requirements
 Project closure guidelines
  Change control procedures
 Issue and defect management
 Financial control
 B) corporate knowledge base (organization is responsible
for storing and retrieving information)
 Project databases – project schedule diagrams, risk
registers, planned actions
 Historical information – lessons learned from the past
 Issue and defect management – control issues, defect
resolution
 Financial databases – labor hours, budgets, project cost
overruns
 Finally,
What are the project management
skills?
 Project Management Skills
 Leadership
 Communications
 Problem Solving
 Decision making ability
 Negotiating
 Influencing the Organization
 Mentoring
 Process and technical expertise

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