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Outline of talk
In this introduction the main questions to be addressed will be:
– What is software project management? Is it really different from ‘ordinary’ project management?
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Difference between project and routine
Routine is functional linear management • Project has much change management Routine has durative consistency
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Which are project?
• Give a class • picnic • Collective wedding • Community security • Develop OS • Everyday cleanness • China airship plan
project Routine jobs
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Characteristics of projects
A task is more ‘project-like’ if it is:
• Non-routine • Planned • Aiming at a specific target • Work carried out for a customer • Involving several specialisms • Made up of several different phases • Constrained by time and resources • Large and/or complex
Background of project management
• Originate from America in forties to fifties of the twentieth century
• Project management—hang together all systems, methods and personnel, and complete all activities of project, within the scope of the prescriptive time, budget and quality target
scheme”
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‘Jobs’ – repetition of very well-defined and well understood tasks with very little uncertainty
Software Project Management
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An Introduction to Software Project Management
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‘Exploration’ – e.g. finding a cure for cancer: the outcome is very uncertain
‘Projects’ – in the middle!
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Difference between project and routine
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What is a project?
Some dictionary definitions:
“A specific plan or design” “A planned undertaking” “A large undertaking e.g. a public works
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Background of project management
• Organization management of enterprise
– Strategy management – Operation management
Strategy management
• Project is one-off Routine is repeated activity
• Project is objectives-driven Routine has emphasis on efficiency and validity
• Project is completed by project manager and teams
– How do you know when a project has been successful? For example, do the expectations of the customer/client match those of the developers?
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– Project management
• The effect of project management
Project
Operation
management management
– Critical path method(CPM)
– Program evaluation review
technology (PERT)