Managing and Estimating Software Projects

Managing and Estimating Software Projects

Many software-intensive projects are delivered late and over budget. These projects often do not meet the original requirements, have an unacceptable number of defects, and may not even function properly. This course shows participants how to manage software-intensive development and maintenance projects to avoid large schedule and cost overruns, whether the project is a few thousand dollars or tens of millions of dollars, as well as how to recognize and overcome potential software development failures. The course presents practical techniques and tools to estimate, plan, lead, organize, control, and complete high-quality projects that are on budget and schedule and that meet the needs of the customer. Participants are encouraged to bring real project management problems to class for analysis and discussion. The course is designed for technical and business managers and business analysts; senior technical staff; software project and program managers; members of independent project teams (IPTs); systems and application programmers; software, hardware, and quality engineers; contractors and other information technology personnel; and professionals who plan, implement, control, and track software development or maintenance projects in industry, government, and university systems. The course also is for managers and technical staff who must understand process and product metrics, as well as collect and use them to improve software project planning, estimation, acquisition, deployment, and control. Specific course objectives include successfully managing software-intensive projects and avoiding common project management mistakes; understanding the advantages and disadvantages of different software development process models; starting a software metrics program to support planning, estimation, and control; understanding the importance of new software development concepts and paradigms; recognizing 10 key factors to prevent software project failure; dealing with emerging management issues, such as rapid prototyping, concurrent development, object-oriented approaches, COTS (commercial-off-the-shelf) software, re-use driven approaches, quality assessments and certifications (ISO 9001 and SEI capability maturity model), reengineering, web development, outsourcing, partnering, and moving software abroad; increasing your organization’s "batting average" for successful software development projects; interacting with software professionals from industry, government, and universities; and introducing rules-of-thumb and reference sources. The course consists of lectures, discussion, and individual and group exercises.

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