Software Process & Management

Unit 1

DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE PROCESSES Overview of software development life cycle - introduction to processes - Personal Software Process (PSP) - Team software process (TSP) - Unified processes - agile processes - choosing the right process Tutorial: Software development using PSP

Unit 2

REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT Functional requirements and quality attributes - elicitation techniques - Quality Attribute Workshops (QAW) - analysis, prioritization, and tradeoff - Architecture Centric Development Method (ACDM) - requirements documentation and specification - change management - traceability of requirements Tutorial: Conduct QAW, elicit, analyze, prioritize, and document requirements using ACDM

Unit 3

ESTIMATION, PLANNING, AND TRACKING Identifying and prioritizing risks - risk mitigation plans - estimation techniques - use case points - function points - COCOMO II - topdown estimation - bottomup estimation - work breakdown structure - macro and micro plans - planning poker - wideband delphi - documenting the plan - tracking the plan - earned value method (EVM) Tutorial: Estimation, planning, and tracking exercises

Unit 4

CONFIGURATION AND QUALITY MANAGEMENT identifying artifacts to be configured - naming conventions and version control - configuration control - quality assurance techniques - peer reviews - Fegan inspection - unit, integration, system, and acceptance testing - test data and test cases - bug tracking - causal analysis Tutorial: version control exercises, development of test cases, causal analysis of defects

Unit 5

SOFTWARE PROCESS DEFINITION AND MANAGEMENT Process elements - process architecture - relationship between elements - process modeling - process definition techniques - ETVX (entrytaskvalidationexit) - process baselining - process assessment and improvement - CMMI - Six Sigma Tutorial: process measurement exercises, process definition using ETVX

REFERENCES:

1. Pankaj Jalote, “Software Project Management in Practice”, Pearson, 2002.