1. It’s All About The People
Software Development
It’s All About The People

2. Introduction Project Management Project Team Life Cycle Personalities
Classic Mistakes

3. Four P’s of Project Management
People
Recruitment, training, organization, team development
Product
Define project scope and design of product
Process
Establish framework for software development
Project
Understand complexities of project development

4. Project Team Life Cycle
Team Formation
Team Development
Team Maintenance

5. Team Composition Technology Specialists
Application Subject Area Experts
Customer Support Experts
Project Management Specialists

6. Team Formation Technical Skills Soft Skills Database design
Detail design & debugging
Network design
Application architecture
Requirements specification
Test script writing
Configuration setup
Tools setup/support
Customer problem analysis
Soft Skills
Personal ambition
Level of commitment
Interpersonal communication skills
Strong biases
Experience
Attention to detail
Sense of urgency
Flexibility/Maturity

7. Team Development Ample communication Treat each other with respect
Clear understanding of each person’s assignment and role
Not hiding a chronic laggard
Understand and support team goals
Follow agreed-upon process

8. Team Maintenance
Reward
Punishment
Attrition
Growth

9. Personalities Intuitive vs. Sensing Feeling vs. Thinking
Extrovert vs. Introvert

10. The Best Fit For The Job Team Leader Systems Analyst Programmer
Intuitive and Feeling
Systems Analyst
Thinking
Programmer
Extrovert

11. Personalities (cont) Delivers vs. Prototypers vs. Perfectors
Converges vs. Divergers
Producers vs. Fixers
Finishers vs. Non-finishers

12. Classic “People” Mistakes
Undermined Motivation
Weak Personnel
Uncontrolled Problem Employees
Heroics
Adding People Late to a Project
Noisy, Crowed Work Spaces
Unrealistic Expectations
Lack of User Input
Wishful Thinking

13. Future “People” Issues
Different Languages
Different Cultures
Different Time Zones
Different Continents

14. References
1. Gorla, Narasimhaiah and Yan Wah Lam, “Who Should Work With Whom?”, Communications of the ACM, vol.47 no. 6, June 2004, pp79-82.
2. Howard, Alan, “Software Engineering Project Management”, Communications of the ACM, vol. 44 no. 5, May 2001, pp
3. McConnell, Steve, Software Project Survival Guide, MicroSoft Press, 1996.
4. Pressman, Roger, Software Engineering: A Practitioners Approach, McGraw Hill Companies, 2005.
5. Tsui, Frank, Managing Software Projects, Southern Polytechnic State University, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2004.