Software Project Management (SPM)

 Software Project Management

Software project management is the art and science of planning and leading software projects. It is a sub-discipline of project management in which software projects are planned, implemented, monitored, and controlled. Software project management comprises of a number of activities, which contains the planning of the project, deciding the scope of the software product, estimation of cost in various terms, scheduling of tasks and events, and resource management. 

®    Project Planning:  Software project planning is a task, which is performed before the production of software actually starts. It is there for software production but involves no concrete activity that has a connection with software production; rather it is a set of multiple processes, which facilitates software production.

®    Scope Management: Scope management is essential because it creates boundaries of the project by clearly defining what would be done in the project and what would not be done.

®    Project Estimation: For effective management accurate estimation of various measures is a must. With correct estimation, managers can manage and control the project more efficiently and effectively.

®    Project Scheduling: Project Scheduling in a project refers to roadmap of all activities to be done with specified order and within the time slot allotted to each activity. 

Resource management: All elements used to develop a software product may be assumed as resources for that project. This may include human resources, productive tools, and software libraries.