Software Development Project Management

Overview

This workshop designed to assist the project managers in the field of software development projects to understanding and using software Project management concepts. We want to pique your curiosity about some of the project management topics and processes and provide you with some tips on communicating project information to team members, executives, clients, and other important stakeholders. With the help of this workshop, you can develop high-performing project teams who complete projects on time and under budget.

Who should attend?

• An experienced software project manager who is interested in improving your skills and finding out a little bit more from other experienced software project managers’ perspectives. 

• An experienced general project manager who is moving into software project management (or maybe you’ve been thrust into software project management without a lot of time to prepare). 

• Just starting to get to know the discipline of project management and deciding whether you should move in the direction of software project management. 

• An ambitious project team member who has become an ad-hoc project manager because your boss isn’t showing enough leadership. 

• Not involved in a project management career at all, but contemplating software project management as an alternative.

Why this workshop?

Regarding to study conducted by The Standish Group (www.standishgroup.com) has found that only about 17 percent of all software projects done in the United States meet the original PCTS targets; 50 percent must have the targets changed—meaning that they are usually late and overspent and need to have the performance requirements reduced— and the remaining 33 percent are actually canceled. One year, the United States spent an aggregate of more than $250 billion on software development, so this means that $80 billion was completely lost on canceled projects. What is truly astonishing is that 83 percent of all software projects get into trouble! The Standish study reported here was conducted in 1994. In the February 2001 issue of Software Development magazine, and for a software development conference stated that U.S. companies spend about $140 billion on canceled and over budget projects each year.

Topics

Module 1: Starting the Software Project

Module 2: Planning the Software Project

Module 3:Executing the Software Project Plan

Module 4: Controlling the Software Project

Module5:  Closing the Software Project

Module 6: Special topics

Length: 5 days