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CS 509Design of Software Systems

Lecture #11Thursday, Nov. 13,

2003

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Term Project administrationReturn Quiz #5QuestionsReview of Chapter 11Project Management exercises

Class Format for Today

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MC Project & Quiz #5

Return Quiz #5 – solutions available on course web site.

How is implementation going? Proceeding according to schedule?

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Questions?

About Term ProjectFrom last week’s classFrom the readingAnything else?

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Chapter 11

Project Management

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Purpose of Management

Managers do not generate any work products of their own

Managers do not make technical decisions

Managers often do not have technical skills

What skills do they have/need?What is their purpose/function?

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Management Skills, Functions

Organizational skills – why are these needed?

People skills – such as?Time & resource management

skills, etc.

To ensure the delivery of a quality system on time and within budget

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Project Mgmt Terminology

TeamsRolesWork ProductsTasksSchedules

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Project Phases

Project Initiation Define scope and resources

Steady State Majority of development effort

Project Termination System is delivered and accepted

What activities are involved in each?

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Project Initiation

Problem statement definitionInitial top-level designTeam formationCommunication Infrastructure

setupInitial milestones planningProject kickoff

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Steady State

Project agreement definitionStatus monitoringRisk assessment & managementProject replanning

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Project Termination

Client acceptance testsInstallationPostmortem

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Project Communication

Needs to occur during all phases of project

Must be timely and accurateStructure of communication

Developers to team leaders Team leaders to project manager Project manager to higher-level

managementDifferent levels/types of communicationWhat can go wrong here?

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Team Communication

What is the definition/purpose of a liaison? Examples of where a liaison is

useful?What is a cross-functional team?

Examples?

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Team Associations

Reporting association Used for reporting status

Decision association Used for propagating decision

informationCommunication association

Used for exchanging info needed for decisions

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Hierarchical Organization

Cathedral modelBazaar model

What do these terms refer to?How does each model function?How do they differ?Movement from one to the other

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Project Roles

ManagementDevelopmentCross-functionalConsultantPromoter:

Power, knowledge, process

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Other Management Concepts

Work ProductsTasksSchedules

What are the relationships between these?

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Project Monitoring

Meetings Status, milestones, reviews,

inspections, demosMetrics

Defects to be resolved Source code metrics – such as?

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Risk Management

Identifying risks – managerial or technical How are they identified? Examples?

Prioritizing risks How likely, what impact?

Mitigating risks How to decrease likelihood and/or impact

Communicating risks

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Other Management Activities

Project agreement document Scope, duration, cost and

deliverablesClient acceptance testsInstallationPostmortem

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Project Management Exercises

From text book, page 453 Split into groups to discuss:

1. Exercise #42. Exercise #53. Exercise #74. Exercise #8

Present results to class

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For Next Time

Chapter 12Software Life Cycle