Software Project Management

by Shriram K. Vasudevan, R M D Sundaram, V Subashri

Provides coherent, comprehensive, and concise coverage of software project management, discipline and concepts. The first part focuses on the project management life cycle activities, which includes planning, evaluation, scheduling, resource allocation and monitoring with special emphasis on hands-on tools and techniques, models, methods, and documentation. A primer on the SDLC is also provided with the focus on various popular models and paradigms like waterfall and prototyping as well as new trends like agile methods. The second part of the book covers the entire gamut of umbrella activities like risk, cost, quality, configuration, contract, change and people management.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Software Development Life-Cycle (SDLC)
• Software Process Model
• Project Planning and Evaluation
• Scheduling
• Resource Allocation
• Monitoring
• Risk Management
• Cost Management
• Configuration Management
• Quality Management An in Depth Understanding
• Software Contracts
• People Management and Management Skills
• Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
• Appendix
• Index.

278 pages, Hardcover

Published April 30, 2018