Software Project Management

Software Project Management

factor 1

company size

factor 2

software customers

factor 3

software size

factor 4

organizational culture

factor 5

software development process

project planning

project managers are responsible for planning, estimating and scheduling project development and assigning people tasks to do

risk management

project managers assess and monitor the risks that may affect a project

people management

project managers have to choose people and establish ways of working that lead to effective team performance

reporting

project managers report the project progress to customers and managers

proposal writing

project managers may need to write a proposal to win the contract

project planning step 1

break the work into parts

project planning step 2

assign the work to team members

project planning step 3

anticipate problems that might arise

project planning step 4

prepare tentative solutions to those problems

scheduling

deciding how the work will be organized as separate tasks and when and how these tasks will be executed

scheduling challenge 1

estimating the difficulty of problems and the cost of developing a solution is hard

scheduling challenge 2

productivity is not proportional to the number of people working on a task

scheduling challenge 3

unexpected always happens so we need contingency planning

dimension of risk classification 1

what is affected by the risk

dimension of risk classification 2

the type of risk (technical, organizational)