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    SWE-401: Software Project Management

    Lecture # 01
    Introduction

    Engr. Sundus Zehra


    Engr. Farrukh Alvi
    Textbooks
    Text Book
    • Software Project Management, Bob Hughes and Mike
    Cotterell, McGraw-Hill Education, Sixth Edition, January
    2017
    • Information Technology Project Management, Kathy
    Schwalbe
    Recommended Reading/ Reference Books
    • Information Technology Project Management, Jack T.
    Marchewka
    • Effective Project Management, Traditional, Agile, Extreme,
    Seventh Edition
    • Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices,
    Tools and Techniques, Murali K. Chemuturi and Thomas M.
    Cagley Jr., J. Ross Publishing, 2010

    2
    Course Basics
    • Essential elements of software project management
    • Practical, rapid development focus
    • Real-world case studies
    • And other examples like job interviews, successful and failures
    • Highly interactive
    • Opportunities of Software development During Pandemic

    3
    Project Management Skills
    • Leadership
    • Communications
    • Problem Solving
    • Negotiating
    • Influencing the Organization
    • Mentoring
    • Process and technical expertise

    4
    Software Project Management
    Management

    Project
    Management

    Software
    Project
    Management

    5
    Project Management
    • What’s a project?
    • PMI definition
    • A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or
    service
    • Progressively elaborated
    • With repetitive elements
    • A project manager
    • Analogy: conductor, coach, captain

    6
    Project vs. Program Management
    • What’s a ‘program’?
    • Mostly differences of scale
    • Often a number of related projects
    • Longer than projects
    • Definitions vary
    • Ex: Program Manager for MS Word

    7
    Interactions / Stakeholders
    • As a PM, who do you interact with?
    • Project Stakeholders
    • Project sponsor
    • Executives
    • Team
    • Customers
    • Contractors
    • Functional managers

    8
    PM Tools: Software
    • Low-end
    • Basic features, tasks management, charting
    • MS Excel, Milestones Simplicity
    • Mid-market
    • Handle larger projects, multiple projects, analysis tools
    • MS Project (approx. 50% of market)
    • High-end
    • Very large projects, specialized needs, enterprise
    • AMS Realtime
    • Primavera Project Manager

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