R-20 Syllabus for CSE, JNTUK w. e. f.
2020 21
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY KAKINADA
KAKINADA 533 003, Andhra Pradesh, India
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
L T P C
III Year I Semester
3 0 0 3
SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
(Professional Elective I)
Course Objectives:
At the end of the course, the student shall be able to:
To describe and determine the purpose and importance of project management from the
perspectives of planning, tracking and completion of project
To compare and differentiate organization structures and project structures
To implement a project to manage project schedule, expenses and resources with the application of
suitable project management tools
Course outcomes:
Upon the completion of the course students will be able to:-
Apply the process to be followed in the software development life-cycle models
Apply the concepts of project management & planning
Implement the project plans through managing people, communications and change
Conduct activities necessary to successfully complete and close the Software projects
Implement communication, modeling, and construction & deployment practices in software
development
UNIT-I:
Conventional Software Management: The waterfall model, conventional software Management
performance.
Evolution of Software Economics: Software Economics, pragmatic software cost estimation.
Improving Software Economics: Reducing Software product size, improving software processes,
improving team effectiveness, improving automation, Achieving required quality, peer inspections.
The old way and the new: The principles of conventional software Engineering, principles of modern
software management, transitioning to an iterative process.
UNIT-II:
Life cycle phases: Engineering and production stages, inception, Elaboration, construction, transition
phases.
Artifacts of the process: The artifact sets, Management artifacts, Engineering artifacts, programmatic
artifacts.
UNIT- III:
Model based software architectures: A Management perspective and technical perspective.
Work Flows of the process: Software process workflows, Iteration workflows.
Checkpoints of the process: Major mile stones, Minor Milestones, Periodic status assessments.
Iterative Process Planning: Work breakdown structures, planning guidelines, cost and schedule
estimating, Iteration planning process, Pragmatic planning.
UNIT- IV:
Project Organizations and Responsibilities: Line-of-Business Organizations, Project Organizations,
evolution of Organizations.
Process Automation: Automation Building blocks, The Project Environment.
Project Control and Process instrumentation: The seven core Metrics, Management indicators, quality
indicators, life cycle expectations, pragmatic Software Metrics, Metrics automation.
R-20 Syllabus for CSE, JNTUK w. e. f. 2020 21
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY KAKINADA
KAKINADA 533 003, Andhra Pradesh, India
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
UNIT-V:
Agile Methodology, ADAPTing to Scrum, Patterns for Adopting Scrum, Iterating towards Agility.
Fundamentals of DevOps: Architecture, Deployments, Orchestration, Need, Instance of applications,
DevOps delivery pipeline, DevOps eco system. DevOps adoption in projects: Technology aspects, Agiling
capabilities, Tool stack implementation, People aspect, processes
Text Books:
1. Software Project Management, Walker Royce, PEA, 2005.
2. Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum, Mike Cohn, Addison Wesley.
3. The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in
Technology Organizations, Gene Kim , John Willis , Patrick Debois , Jez Humb,1st Edition,
OReilly publications, 2016.
Reference Books:
1. Software Project Management, Bob Hughes,3/e, Mike Cotterell, TMH
2. Software Project Management, Joel Henry, PEA
3. Software Project Management in practice, Pankaj Jalote, PEA, 2005,
4. Effective Software Project Management, Robert [Link], Wiley,2006
5. Project Management in IT, Kathy Schwalbe, Cengage
