SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Project Management Knowledge Areas

Dr. Ahmet TÜMAY, PMP

Data Flow Diagrams

Project Integration Management

Integration is primarily concerned with effectively integrating the processes among the Project Management Process Groups that are required to accomplish project objectives within an organization’s defined procedures.

Project Integration Management

• Integration, in the context of managing a project, is

– making choices about resource allocation,

– Making trade-offs among competing alternatives

– Managing the interdependencies among the project management Knowledge Areas

Develop Project Charter

The project charter is the document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and documenting initial stakeholder’s requirements. A project initiator or sponsor external to the project organization, at a level that is appropriate to funding the project, issues the project charter.

Develop Project Charter

Project CharterDocuments business needs, current understanding of the customer’s needs and the new product, service, or results that it is intended to satisfy, such as ;• Project purpose or justification,• Measurable project objectives and related success

criteria,• High level requirements,• Assumptions and Constraints• High level project description,• High level risks,• Summary milestone schedule,• Summary Budget,• Assigned Project Manager, responsibility, and authority

level,• Project approval requirements,• Name and authority of the Sponsor.• Stakeholders List

Develop Project Management Plan

The project management plan defines how the project is executed, monitored and controlled, and closed.

Plan content is depending upon the application area and complexity of the project.

Project Management PlanIntegrates and consolidates all of the subsidiary management plans and baselines ;

• Life cycle selected for the project and processes that will be applied to each phase

• Results of the tailoring by the project management team• Processes selected• Level of implementation• Selected tools and techniques• Determining the integrations between processes

• How work will be executed • Change management plan to manage changes

Project Management PlanScope Management Plan (Chapter 5)Requirements Management Plan (Section 5.1.3.2)Schedule Management Plan (Chapter 6 introductory material)Cost Management Plan (Chapter 7 introductory material)Quality Management Plan (Section 8.1.3.1)Process Improvement Plan (Section 8.1.3.4)Human Resource Plan (Section 9.1.3.1)Communication Management Plan (Section 10.2.3.1)Risk Management Plan (Section 11.1.3.1)Procurement Management Plan (Section 12.1.3.1)

These other components include, but are not limited to:Milestone listSchedule Baseline Cost Performance Baseline Scope Baseline

Direct and Manage Project WorkThe Direct and Manage Project Execution process requires the project manager and the project team to perform multiple actions to execute the project management plan to accomplish the work defined in the plan.

Project Execution• Perform activities to accomplish project objectives• Expend effort and spend funds to accomplish the project objectives• Staff, train, and manage the project team members assigned to the

project• Obtain quotations, bids, offers, or proposals as appropriate• Select sellers by choosing from among potential sellers• Obtain, manage, and use resources including materials, tools,

equipment, and facilities• Implement the planned methods and standards• Create, control, verify, and validate project deliverables• Manage risks and implement risk response activities• Manage sellers• Adapt approved changes into the project’s scope, plans, and

environment• Establish and manage project communication channels, both external

and• internal to the project team• Collect project data and report cost, schedule, technical and quality

progress, and status information to facilitate forecasting• Collect and document lessons learned, and implement approved

process• improvement activities.

Work Performance InformationInformation on the status of the project activities being performed to accomplish the project work is routinely collected as part of the project management plan execution.

• Schedule progress showing status information, Estimates to complete the schedule activities that have started

• Deliverables that have been completed and those not completed

• Costs authorized and incurred, Resource utilization detail• Manage Changes

• Corrective action• Preventive action• Defect repair

Monitor and Control Project WorkProcess of tracking, reviewing, and regulating the progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan. Performed throughout the project.Gives the project management team insight into the health of the project, and identifies any areas that can require special attention.

Monitor and Control• Comparing actual project performance against the project plan• Assessing performance to determine whether any corrective or

preventive actions are indicated, and then recommending those actions as necessary

• Analyzing, tracking, and monitoring project risks to make sure the risks are identified, their status is reported, and that appropriate risk response plans are being executed

• Maintaining an accurate, timely information base concerning the project’s product(s) and associated documentation through project completion

• Providing information to support status reporting, progress measurement, and forecasting

• Providing forecasts to update current cost and current schedule information

• Monitoring implementation of approved changes when and as they occur.

Perform Integrated Change Control

Process of reviewing all changes requests, approving changes and managing changes to the deliverables, project documents, project management plan and organizational process assets

Change Control• Change Control process includes the following change management

activities in differing levels of detail, based upon the completion of project execution:

• Identifying that a change needs to occur or has occurred.• Influencing the factors that circumvent integrated change control so

that onlyapproved changes are implemented.• Reviewing and approving requested changes.• Managing the approved changes when and as they occur, by regulating

theflow of requested changes.• Maintaining the integrity of baselines by releasing only approved

changes forincorporation into project products or services, and maintaining their relatedconfiguration and planning documentation.• Reviewing and approving all recommended corrective and preventive

actions.• Controlling and updating the scope, cost, budget, schedule and qualityrequirements based upon approved changes, by coordinating changes acrossthe entire project. For example, a proposed schedule change will often affectcost, risk, quality, and staffing.

• Documenting the complete impact of requested changes.• Validating defect repair.• Controlling project quality to standards based on quality

reports.

Configuration ManagementStandardized, effective and efficient way to manage changes to project’s products. Includes, • Document configuration managementG222-PRJ-SoftwareRequirementsSpecification71213-V5R1.0-AHMETT-91003.doc

• Code configuration management

Configuration Management includes :• Configuration Identification• Status Accounting• Control • Verification and Audit

Close Project or PhaseProcess of finalizing all activites across all of the project management process groups to formally complete the project or phase.

Close Project or Phase

Close ActivitiesIncludes all the activities necessary for administrative closure of the project or phase including ;

• Satisfy completion or exit criteria for the phase or project,

• Transfer the project’s product, service or result to the next phase or production

• Collect project or phase records, audit project success or failure and gather lessons learned.