Course curriculum

  • 1

    Unit-1

    • Waterfall model: Introduction, Theory,

    • S/w Development Plan, Late risk resolution, conventional software management performance: Evolutionary of s/w economics: parameters,

    • conventional software management approach: Evolutionary of software Economics,

    • In practice: protracted integration and late design breakage, late risk resolution, focus on documents and review

    • conventional development: Advancement in tools, components and processes, ROI, Reduce software size, pragmatic s/w cost estimation, cost estimation models, source lines of code, function points, topdown Vs bottom up, A good project estimation,
  • 2

    UNIT-2

    • IMPROVING SOFTWARE ECONOMICS,IMPROVING SOFTWARE ECONOMICS,COMMENTS ON OVERALL APPROACHES, REDUCING SOFTWARE PRODUCT SIZE,COMPARISON TABLE,MOVE ON COMPARISONS:LANGUAGES

    • IMPROVING SOFTWARE PROCESS & TEAM EFFECTIVENESS

    • IMPROVING AUTOMATION,ACHIVING REQUIRED QUALITY & PEER INSPECTION,ACHIEVING REQUIRED QUALITY

    • THE OLD WAY AND THE NEW

    • PRINCIPLES OF MODERN SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

    • TRANSITIONING TO ITERATIVE PROCESS
  • 3

    UNIT-3

    • LIFE CYCLE PHASES, ENGINEERING AND PRODUCTION STAGES

    • INCEPTION PHASE,ELABORATION PHASE

    • INCEPTION PHASE:PRIMARY EVALUATION CRITERIA, ELABORATION PHASE,CONSTRUCTION PHASE,TRANSITION PHASE

    • ARTIFACTS OF THE PROCESS,ARTIFACT DEVELOPMENT, THE ARTIFACT SETS

    • Model based software architecture
  • 4

    UNIT-4

    • WORK FLOW OF THE PROCESS, SOFTWARE PROCESS WORKFLOWS,MODERN PROCESS FRAMEWORK,ITERATION WORKFLOWS

    • WORK FLOW OF THE PROCESS:CHECK POINTS & MAJOR MILESTONES,ITERATION CONTENTS,MAJOR MILESTONES

    • MINOR MILESTONES,PERIODIC STATUS ASSESSMENTS, ITERATIVE PROCESS,WBS-CONVENTIONAL WBS

    • PLANNING GUIDELINES,THE ITERATION PLANNING PROCESS,PRAGMATIC PLANNING

    • PROJECT ORGANIZATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES, LINE-OF-BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS,SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT TEAM,SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE TEAM, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM,EVOLUTION OF ORGANIZATIONS

    • PROCESS AUTOMATION

    • Change management:s/w change orders, configuration base line, CCB

    • Infrastructure: Organization policy, Organization environment, stake holder environment,

    • Stakeholder cohesion or contention, process flexibility or Rigor, process maturity, Architectural Risk, Domain

  • 5

    UNIT-5

    • Project control and process Instrumentation

    • Life cycle expectation

    • Metrics Automation

    • Tailoring the process, Process Discriminants,

    • Future s/w project management

    • Next generation software economics

    • Modern process Transitions, Next generation cost models, modern software economics