Software Project Management

Catalog description

Project management and its application to software-development projects. Emphasis will be on planning, organizing, monitoring, and controlling. Students will learn how to develop work breakdown structures, estimate task durations, assign resources, specify network precedence, and determine a project's critical path. Methods for scheduling in the face of resource constraints will be included, as well as function point counting, algorithmic models for estimating total project cost, and software tools for project planning and monitoring.