Software Project Management. 3 credits, 3 contact hours

Catalog description

This course gives the student the necessary background to allow her/him to manage software projects; this includes economic, managerial and organizational aspects. The essence of software engineering is not only to introduce a valuable software product, but to do so economically and competitively. Like any engineering discipline, software engineering depends critically on managerial, economic and organizational considerations. Students will learn software management technique, various software costing techniques including COCOMO and ROI, team organization and management, and various methods of software development including Cleanroom and Agile.