Software Project Management - A Unified Framework by Walker Royce

E-Book Details:

Title:	Software Project Management: A Unified Framework
Publisher:	Addison-Wesley Professional
Author:	Walker Royce
Edition:	2nd, illustrated
Format:	PDF
ISBN:	0201309580
EAN:	9780201309584
No.ofPages:	448

Book Description:

This book provides a clear and provocative discussion of the economics, metrics, and management strategies necessary to plan and execute a software project successfully. Royce discusses, with refreshing candor, some of the fads, follies, and excesses of the software industry, clearly differentiating proven techniques and obsolete methods. Paired with this insightful examination are compelling arguments for new management approaches that are sure to stimulate debate.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Walker Royce is a Vice President and General Manager at Rational Software Corporation. During the past two decades at Rational and TRW he has performed in roles ranging from coder, designer, integrator, cost estimator, and trainer to software architect, project manager, product manager, R&D manager, technical fellow, and principal consultan

FEATURES:

Software Project Management provides the software industry with field-proven benchmarks for making tactical decisions and strategic choices that will enhance an organization's probability of success. This book includes:

• Top ten principles for modern software management
• Strategies for smoothly transitioning an organization to modern processes and technologies (such as Rational's Unified process)
• Methods for keeping software engineering teams motivated and effectively prioritized
• Insight into the impacts of technology, people, and economics on managing a project
• Metrics and forecasting guidance for project costs, schedules, and quality control

Table of Contents:

UNIT - I

Conventional Software Management : The waterfall model, conventional software Management

performance.

Evolution of Software Economics : Software Economics, pragmatic software cost estimation.

UNIT - II

Improving Software Economics : Reducing Software product size, improving software processes,

improving team effectiveness, improving automation, Achieving required quality, peer inspections.

The old way and the new : The principles of conventional software Engineering, principles of modern software management, transitioning to an iterative process.

UNIT - III

Life cycle phases : Engineering and production stages, inception, Elaboration, construction, transition phases.

Artifacts of the process : The artifact sets, Management artifacts, Engineering artifacts, programmatic artifacts.

UNIT - IV

Model based software architectures : A Management perspective and technical perspective.

Work Flows of the process : Software process workflows, Iteration workflows.

UNIT - V

Checkpoints of the process : Major mile stones, Minor Milestones, Periodic status assessments.

Iterative Process Planning : Work breakdown structures, planning guidelines, cost and schedule

estimating, Iteration planning process, Pragmatic planning.

UNIT - VI

Project Organizations and Responsibilities : Line-of-Business Organizations, Project Organizations,

evolution of Organizations.

Process Automation : Automation Building blocks, The Project Environment.

UNIT - VII

Project Control and Process instrumentation : The seven core Metrics, Management indicators, quality indicators, life cycle expectations, pragmatic Software Metrics, Metrics automation.

Tailoring the Process : Process discriminants.

UNIT - VIII

Future Software Project Management : Modern Project Profiles, Next generation Software economics, modern process transitions.

Case Study: The command Center Processing and Display system- Replacement (CCPDS-R)

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