1. Mumtaz Ali Rajput mumtaz.ali@superior.edu.pk +92 – 301- 4949 409
SOFTWARE PROJECTMANAGMENT– WEEK 4
Mumtaz Ali Rajput
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2. Software Project Management
Agenda
Project Planning
Goal of Project planning
Project Management Plan
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3. Planning Process Review Mission Statement Evaluate available Resources
Determine the Goals
Write and communicate the Goals
Review and Revise

4. Software Project Management
Project Planning
Planning is basically concerned with resources management which is basic motivations for project management. In case of software Project the software planning involves estimating how much time, effort, money, and resources will be required to build a specific software system. After the project scope is determined and the problem is decomposed into smaller problems, software managers use historical project data (as well as personal experience and intuition) to determine estimates for each.
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5. Goal of Project Planning
The overall goal of project planning is to establish a pragmatic strategy for controlling, tracking, and monitoring a complex technical project. So the end result gets done on time, within budget, and with quality.
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6. Characteristics of Goal (SMART)

7. Project Management Plan (PMP)
The Project Management Plan defines how the project is executed, monitored and controlled, and closed. It documents the collection of outputs of the planning processes of the planning process group.
It is the defining and documenting the processes you are going to use to manage the project in hand. It describes, integrates and coordinates subsidiary plans for the processes you have determined to use for the project.
Project Plan= Scope+ Estimates + Risk+ Schedule+ Monitoring and Control
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8. Project Management Plan
The Project Management Plan can be either summary level or detailed, and can be composed of one or more subsidiary plans and other components providing further details.
Subsidiary Plans like: Management plan for Schedule, Cost, Quality, Process improvement, Staffing, Communication, Risk, Procurement etc.
Other Components like: Milestone list, Resource Calendar, Schedule baseline, Cost baseline, Quality baseline, Risk register etc.
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9. Software Project Management
Inputs for PMP
Preliminary Project Scope Statement
Project Management Processes (that make up the Planning Process Group)
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Organizational Process Assets
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10. Software Project Management
Elements of PMP
Processes you will use to perform the project
Level of implementation of each of the processes selected for the project
Tools and Techniques to be used for each of the processes
Essential Inputs and Outputs from each of the processes and how they will be used to manage the project
Dependencies and interactions of the processes used to manage the project
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11. Software Project Management
Elements of PMP
Methods for executing the work of the project to fulfill the objectives
Methods for monitoring and controlling changes
Methods to perform configuration management
Methods for determining and maintaining the validity of performance baselines (performance indicators)
Communication needs of the stakeholders and techniques to fulfill those needs
Project life cycle
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12. Software Project Management
Elements of PMP
Project phases for multiphase project
Management reviews of issues and pending decisions
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13. Tools and Techniques for PMP
Project Management Methodology: For developing and controlling changes to the project management plan
Project Management Information System: Automated system for the whole planning
Expert Judgment
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15. Software Project Management
Questions?
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16. Software Project Management
A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge by William R. Duncan, Director of Standards
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