Software_Project_Management-Lec1-Introduction1.pptx

1、Software Project Management(SPM)Lecture 1 Introduction,Layout,Course basics, administrative items Introduction Fundamentals of SPM,School of Computer Software,2,About the Course,Target for Software Engineering 3rd year Students. Total 48 hours, 32 hours for lectures(2 hours per lecture) and 16 hours

2、 for experimental(4 hours per experiment). 4 hours a week from week 1st to week 12th , 8:00-9:35 on Tuesday and 9:55-11:30 on Thursday respectively. Room 206, Building 24th (lecture) Prerequisite Course/ correlated curriculum: Software Engineering Software Testing Class web sites -本科教学-课程讨论-软件项目管理,S

3、chool of Computer Software,3,Goals of the Course,The course will cover the theory, methodology and practice of SPM. The students will gain understanding, tools, theory and problematic issues of SPM. It will assist you to be a better, more productive, team members of a software development team as we

4、ll as better team leaders and project managers in the future.,School of Computer Software,4,Bibliographic List,Software Project Management, Bob Hughes and Mike Cotterell, McGraw-Hill, Fifth Edition. Quality Software Project Management, R. Futrell, D. Shafer, L. Shafer, Prentice-Hall PTR 2002. Applie

5、d Software Project Management, Stellman Planning is required; Specific objectives are to be met or a specified product is to be created; The project has a predetermined time span; Work is carried out for someone other than yourself; Work involves several specialisms; People are formed into a tempora

6、ry work group to carry out the task; Work is carried out in several phases; The resources that are available for use on the project are constrained; The project is large or complex;,School of Computer Software,10,Exercise 1.1,Consider the following: Producing an edition of a newspaper; Putting a rob

7、ot vehicle on Mars to search for sign of life; Amending a financial computer system to deal with a common European currency; A research project into what makes a good human-computer interface; An investigation into the reason why a user has a problem with a computer system; A second-year programming

8、 assignment for a computing student; Writing an operation system for a new computer; Installing a new version of a word processing package in an organization. Please give the top 3 projects.,School of Computer Software,11,Software project vs. other projects,Invisibility Software project management c

9、an be seen as the process of making the invisible visible. Complexity Conformity Consistent physical laws. Conform to the requirements of human clients. Flexibility The software is easy to change The software will change to accommodate the other components rather than vice versa.,School of Computer

10、Software,12,Ways of categorizing software projects,Compulsory vs. voluntary users Business system Computer games Information systems vs. embedded systems. Carry out office processes Control machines Would an OS on a computer be an IS or an ES? Objectives vs. product Objective driven Product driven,S

11、chool of Computer Software,13,What is ?,Management: setting objectives for a system and then monitoring the performance of the system. Planning : deciding what is to be done; Organizing : making arrangement; Staffing : selecting the right people for the job etc. Directing : giving instructions; Moni

12、toring : checking on progress; Controlling : taking action to remedy hold-ups; Innovating : coming up with new solutions; Representing : liaising with clients, users, developer, suppliers and other stakeholders,School of Computer Software,14,What is ?,Project Management Project management is the dis

13、cipline of planning, organizing, securing and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives.(Wikipedia) 指在项目活动中运用专门的知识、技能、工具和方法，使项目能够在有限资源限定条件下，实现或超过设定的需求和期望,School of Computer Software,15,Four dimensions of PM,People Product Process Technologie

14、s,School of Computer Software,16,Trade-off Triangle(平衡三角形),Fast, Cheap, Good(快-好-省),School of Computer Software,17,Trade-off Triangle,Know which of these are fixed & variable for every project.,School of Computer Software,18,The Project Management Knowledge Areas,Project Integration Management Proje

15、ct Scope Management Project Time Management Project Cost Management Project Quality Management Project Human Resource Management Project Communications Management Project Risk Management Project Procurement Management,School of Computer Software,19,The Project Management Knowledge Areas,School of Co

16、mputer Software,20,Project Management Skills,Leadership Communications Problem Solving Negotiating Influencing the Organization Mentoring Process and technical expertise,School of Computer Software,21,Interactions / Stakeholders,As a PM, who do you interact with? Project Stakeholders Project sponsor

17、 Executives Team Customers Contractors Functional managers Customer? Client? User?,School of Computer Software,22,What is ?,Software Project Management Software project management is the art and science of planning and leading software projects(Stellman & Greene, Applied Software Project Management)

18、. It is a sub-discipline of project management in which software projects are planned, monitored and controlled,School of Computer Software,23,Software Project Management,School of Computer Software,24,Project success and failure,The agreed functionality To the required level of quality On time With

19、in budget,School of Computer Software,25,Why is software project managementimportant?,The “software crisis” of the 1960s and 1970s was so called because of a string of high profile software project failures: over budget, overdue, etc. SPM was proposed in 1970s. DOD(Department of Defense) of USA have

20、 been a research to find the reasons of software failure. The result showed that 70% failure projects were due to the poor management rather than technology problems.,School of Computer Software,26,Why is software project managementimportant?,Knowledge products and intangible Large projects are ofte

21、n “bespoke” Complexity The technology changes very quickly,School of Computer Software,27,Why is software project managementimportant?,Good project management cannot guarantee success, but poor management on significant projects always leads to failure.,School of Computer Software,28,Activities cove

22、red by software project management,School of Computer Software,29,Activities covered by software project management,The feasibility study Assesses whether a project is worth starting Planning Describe how to do it. Project execution Do it! Distinguish between planning and design,School of Computer S

23、oftware,30,Activities covered by software project management,Requirements analysis Starts with requirements elicitation(引出) or requirements gathering(搜集). Classification: Functional requirements Quality requirements Resource requirements.,School of Computer Software,31,Activities covered by software

24、 project management,Architecture design Map software requirements to software components. Design of the system architecture is an input to the software requirements Components are not only software,School of Computer Software,32,Activities covered by software project management,Detailed design Decom

25、pose a software component into a number of software units that can be separately coded and tested. Code and test Writing code for each software unit. Integration The components are tested together to see if they meet the overall requirements. Software, hardware,School of Computer Software,33,Activities covered by software project management,Qualification testing Verify whether fulfill all the requirements Installation Make the new system operational. Acceptance support Software maintenance.,School of Computer Software,34,34 Competencies of SPM,Sc