Software Project Management
Project Planning :Effective project planning for large projects in large corporations involves both planning specialists and automated planning tools. Successful planning for large software projects...
View ArticleProject Cost Estimating
Software cost estimating for large software projects is far too complex to be performed manually. This observation is supported by the presence of at least 75 comcommercial software cost estimating...
View ArticleProject Measurements
Successful large projects are most often found in companies that have software measurement programs for capturing productivity and quality historical data , Thus any new project can be compared against...
View ArticleSoftware Development Process
One of the primary duties of the manager of a software development project is to ensure that all of the project activities follow a certain predefined process, that the activities are organized as a...
View ArticleRequirements Engineering
Almost all software development processes one way or another stress requirements analysis and specification as one of their core workflows. The reasons are simple. It is necessary to manage...
View ArticleSoftware Architecture
Software architecture encompasses specification and design of the application's global structure, leaving the details aside. It is related to the general software organization in terms of its...
View ArticleOrganizational Aspects
Software project management always involves various organizational aspects, such as creating and staffing development teams, assigning roles to the team members, modalities of software development,...
View ArticleManagement Strategies and Techniques
Software development is an extremely dynamic and fluid business, and it is difficult to plan everything at the beginning of a project. Therefore, efficient management of software projects must be based...
View ArticleRisk Assessment
• Estimating the project's size in the early phases - the project's size affects how the deadlines will be set up, and is positively correlated with monetary expense and risk.• Setting up the deadlines...
View ArticleSoftware Metrics
Measurement is a key factor for managing and improving software development. The purpose of the measurement process in software projects is to define and operate a context-specific set of metrics, and...
View ArticleSoftware Testing
In spite of the fact that in every software development project the product undergoes testing, delivered software always contains residual defects. Software testing is a difficult, time-consuming...
View ArticleSoftware Quality Assurance
The goals of software quality assurance (SQA) are monitoring the software and its development process, ensuring compliance with standards and procedures, and ensuring that product, process, and...
View ArticleSoftware Configuration Management
The configuration of a software system is the function and/or physical characteristics of hardware, firmware, software or a combination thereof as set forth in technical documentation and achieved in a...
View ArticleSoftware Standards
There are two major aspects of the term ``standards" in software development. One of them is that of using widely accepted standards under the assumption that they embody the common body of knowledge...
View ArticleBest Practices
• Communication problems arising when a distributed team is developing software must be handled with special care. A kick-off meeting must be held face-to-face, and all the developers, partners, and...
View ArticlePROJECT PRELIMINARIES
* BSO - Business Systems Options* CASE - Computer Aided Software Engineering* CCTA - Central Computing and Telecommunications Agency* COCOMO - Constructive Cost Model* CPM - Critical Path Method* DFD -...
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