Software Project Management

Project Management Concept:

It is an art and science of planning and leading software projects.

Project Management-> software project- planned, implemented, Monitored, controlled.

Effective software project management focuses on the four P's:

The People: It deals with the cultivation of motivated, highly skilled people.

Software engineering institute has developed a people management capability maturity model (PM-CMM) to enhance the readiness of the software organizations to undertake increasingly Complex Applications by helping to the talented needed to improve their software development capability.

The People management maturity model focuses on

People consists of

The People: The Stakeholder:

There are mainly 5 categories of stakeholder:

• Senior Manager: Define business issues that often have significant influence on the project.

• Project (Technical) Managers: They "Plan, Motivate, Organised, and Control" the practitioners who do the work.

• Practitioner: They deliver the technical skills that are necessary to engineer a product or application.

• Customers: Specify the requirement for the software to be engineered and other stakeholders who have a peripheral interest in the outcome.

• End users: Interact with the software once it is released for production use.

The people: Team leaders

Team Leader Qualities:
• Motivational- the ability to encourage technical people to produce to their best ability.

• Organisation- the ability to mold existing processes.

• Ideas or innovations- ability to encourage to go beyond their skills.

Another set of useful leadership Traits:

•- problem solving: Diagnose, structure a solution, apply lessons learned, remain flexible.

•- Managerial Identity: Take charge of the project, have confidence to assume control, have a assurance to allow good people to do their jobs.

•-Achievement : Reward initiative, demonstrate that control risk taking will not be punished.

•-Influence and team building: Be able to ' read' people, understand verbal and nonverbal signals. Able to react to the signals, remain under control in high- stress situations.

The people: The software team

Seven project factors to be considered when selecting a software development team.

Four Organizational paradigm for Software Development Teams :

• 1. Closed paradigm: Traditional hierarchy of authority works well when producing software similar to past efforts, members are less likely to be innovative .

•2. Random paradigm: Depends on individual initiative of team members , work well for project requiring innovation technological break.

•3. Open paradigm: hybrid of the closed and random paradigm, works well for solving Complex problems, requiring collaboration, communication, and censensus among members.

4. synchronous paradigm: Organizes team members based on the network pieces of the problem, members have little communication outside of their subgroups.

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