CP7301 SOFTWARE PROCESS AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT

CP7301      SOFTWARE PROCESS AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT 

UNIT I            DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE PROCESSES

Overview of software development life cycle – introduction to processes – Personal Software Process (PSP) – Team software process (TSP) – Unified processes – agile processes – choosing the right process Tutorial:  Software development using PSP  

UNIT II            REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT

Functional requirements and quality attributes – elicitation techniques – Quality Attribute Workshops (QAW) – analysis, prioritization, and trade-off – Architecture Centric Development Method (ACDM) – requirements documentation and specification – change management – traceability of requirements 

Tutorial:  Conduct QAW, elicit, analyze, prioritize, and document requirements using ACDM  

UNIT III         ESTIMATION, PLANNING, AND TRACKING                            9 Identifying and prioritizing risks – risk mitigation plans – estimation techniques – use case points – function points – COCOMO II –  top-down estimation – bottom-up estimation – work breakdown structure – macro and micro plans – planning poker – wideband delphi – documenting the plan – tracking the plan – earned value method (EVM) Tutorial: Estimation, planning, and tracking exercises  

UNIT IV           CONFIGURATION AND QUALITY MANAGEMENT

identifying artifacts to be configured – naming conventions and version control – configuration control – quality assurance techniques – peer reviews – Fegan inspection – unit, integration, system, and acceptance testing – test data and test cases – bug tracking – causal analysis Tutorial: version control exercises, development of test cases, causal analysis of defects  

UNIT V         SOFTWARE PROCESS DEFINITION AND MANAGEMENT

 Process elements – process architecture – relationship between elements – process modeling – process definition techniques – ETVX (entry-task-validation-exit) – process baselining – process assessment and improvement – CMMI – Six Sigma Tutorial: process measurement exercises, process definition using ETVX

REFERENCES:  

1. Pankaj Jalote, “Software Project Management in Practice”, Pearson, 2002. 

2. Chris F. Kemerer, “Software Project Management – Readings and Cases”, McGraw Hill, 1997. 

3. Watts S. Humphrey, “PSP: A self-improvement process for software engineers”, AddisonWesley, 2005. 

4. Watts S. Humphrey, “Introduction to the Team Software Process”, Addison-Wesley, 2000. 

5. Orit Hazzan and Yael Dubinsky, “Agile software engineering”, Springer, 2008. 

6. James R. Persse, “Process Improvement Essentials”, O’Reilly, 2006. 

7. Roger S. Pressman, “Software Engineering – A Practitioner’s Approach”, Seventh Edition, McGraw Hill, 2010.