Project – Software Projects versus Other Types of Project – Contract Management and Technical Project Management – Activities – Plans, Methods and Methodologies – Requirement Specification – Management Control – Overview of Project Planning – Introduction to Step Wise Project Planning – Programme Management and Project Evaluation.

Software Effort Estimation: Problems with Over and Under Estimates – Basis of Software Estimating – Techniques – Expert Judgment – Cosmic Full Function Points – A Procedural Code Oriented Approach – COCOMO: A Parametric Model – Activity Planning: Objectives – Project Schedules – Projects and Activities – Sequencing and Scheduling Activities – Network Planning Models – Formulating A Network Model – Identifying Critical Path – Shortening the Project Duration – Identifying Critical Activities – Activity-on-arrow Networks.

Categories of Risk – Framework for Dealing with Risk – Risk Identification – Risk Assessment – Risk Planning – Risk Management – Evaluating Risks to the Schedule – Applying the PERT Technique – Monte Carlo Simulation – Critical Chain Concepts – Resource Allocation: Nature of Resources – Identifying Resource Requirements – Scheduling Resources – Creating Critical Paths – Counting the Cost – Cost Schedules – Scheduling Sequence.

Creating the Framework – Collecting the Data: Partial Completion Reporting – Risk Reporting – Visualizing Progress: Gantt chart – Slip chart – Ball Charts – The Timeline – Cost Monitoring– Earned Value Analysis – Prioritizing Monitoring – Getting the Project Back to Target – Change Control.

Managing Contracts: The ISO 12207 Approach, Supply Process, Types, Stages, Contract Management Managing People and Organizing Teams: Understanding Behaviour, Organizational Behaviour, Motivation, The Oldham– Hackman Job Characteristics Model, Decision Making, Leadership, Dispersed And Virtual Teams, Software Quality – Importance, Defining Software Quality, ISO 9126, Software Quality Measures, Product Versus Process Quality Management, External Standards, Quality Plans.