Essentials of Software Engineering, 4th Edition

CHAPTER 13: Software Project Management

OBJECTIVES

• Analyze the four phases of project management:

• Planning

• Organizing

• Monitoring

• Adjusting

• Discuss three specific project effort estimating techniques:

• COCOMO

• Function point

• A simple technique for the OO environment

• Describe two more techniques of project management:

• Work breakdown structure for task scheduling

• Earned value management for project monitoring

13.1 Project Management

13.1.1 The Need for Project Management

We have spent several chapters of this text discussing software design and the software development process and methodologies. Why can’t we just follow these processes and methodologies and complete a project? What if a project requires only two or three people? ...