Software Project Management
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The official GTU curriculum for Software Project Management (subject code 2720211) as prescribed for CE · Semester 2 divides the course into 13 units, covering 68 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2720211)Unit 1 Software Projects
- Understanding Software Projects
- Software Project management
- Software Development Life cycle
- Typical Software roles and responsibilities
- Review of Models for Software Development
Unit 2 Project Planning
- Planning process
- testing strategy
- team members
- organization structure
- capability baseline
- quality objectives
- Project Management Plan
Unit 3 Software Quality & Metrics
- Understanding quality
- attributes of measures
- Metrics for different types of projects
Unit 4 Project Monitoring & Control
- Project Control
- effort data
- Monitoring and Control
- Quantitative techniques
- Monitoring Process
- Tools and techniques
- Example of Monitoring
- Data collection
Unit 6 Software Project Audit
- Quality Principles
- Quality Attributes IT, Quality Assurance
- Process Definition Life Cycle
- Quality Audits
- Quality Assurance vs Quality Control
Unit 7 Risk Management
- Risk management Process
- Enterprise Risk database
Unit 8 Acquiring Software Projects
- Outsourcing a project
- processes involved in award of a project contract
- best practices in writing a proposal, RFP, RFI, SOW
Unit 9 Benchmarking
- Types of benchmarking
Unit 10 CMMI and SPM
- CMMI framework
- Process area
- levels of CMMI
- Standard CMMI method for appraisal
- CMMI adoption
- CMMI vs CMM
Unit 11 Project Management in Maintenance Projects
- Software Project Maintenance Life Cycle
- Configuration management
- Defect prevention
Unit 12 Software Testing and Maintenance
- Foundations of Testing
- Test Planning
- Test Design and Implementation
- Testing Network Management Systems
- Web Based Testing
- Testing Object-Oriented systems
- Test Execution and Measurement
- Management Issues for Software Quality
- Software Testing Types: Unit
- Benchmarking and Certification
- Control flow & loop testing
- Data-flow testing
- Transaction- flow testing
- Domain testing
- Coverage vs. usage based testing
- Software Reuse
- Software Aging
- Product Enhancement
- Reverse Engineering
- Re- engineering Method
- Architectural Simplification
Unit 13 Software Testing Tools
- Test case Generation Methodology
- Study of various Testing Tools (Win Runner
- Load Runner)
- Automatic Testing Tool