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Software Project Management (Includes Practicals)

This book provides an overview of software project management principles and practices, covering key areas such as integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communication, risk, and procurement management. It discusses the project life cycle and management frameworks. The book is intended to inform readers about managing IT projects in organizations.

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Software Project Management (Includes Practicals)

This book provides an overview of software project management principles and practices, covering key areas such as integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communication, risk, and procurement management. It discusses the project life cycle and management frameworks. The book is intended to inform readers about managing IT projects in organizations.

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Software

Project
Management
(Includes Practicals)

The book covers












Overview of IT Project Management


Project Integration Management
Project Scope Management
Project Time Management
Project Cost Management
Project Quality Management
Project Human Resource Management
Project Communication Management
Project Risk Management
Project Procurement Management
Project Implementation Plan and Closure

` 390/ISBN: 9789351198215 Pages: 402 Authors: Dr. Satish R. Billewar, DTES

About the Book


This book provides information about project management in IT IT-based organizations. Further, this book discusses about various other aspects of
project management such as integration management, scope management, time management, cost management, quality management, human resource
management, communication management, risk management, and procurement management. Along with this, you will learn about the implementation
lan and closure of the project.

In this book, you will learn about











IT Project Management: Discusses about IT project management, need of project management, project goals, project life cycle and IT development, information
technology project methodology (ITPM), and PMBOK.
Project Feasibility and Selection: Explores project feasibility, project feasibility analysis, request for proposal (RFP), project selection and approval, and project
contracting.
Project Scope, Planning and Integration Management: Discusses about project integration management, the project charter, project planning framework, the planning
process, scope planning, the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), and the linear responsibility chart.
Project Time Management: Discusses about the concept of time management in IT projects, project scheduling, scheduling charts, critical path method, calendar
scheduling and time-based network, management schedule reserve, PERT, and CPM.
Project Cost Management: Explores the estimation of IT projects, cost escalation, cost estimating and system development cycle, cost estimating process, elements of
budgets and estimates.
Project Quality Management: Discusses the importance of quality in IT project, quality tools, quality systems and the IT project quality plan.
Project Human Resource Management: Explains the importance of human resource management in an IT project, organization and project planning, the project team,
multidisciplinary teams, the project environment, project leadership, role of project manager and IT governance.
Project Communication Management: Discusses about monitoring and controlling the project, the project communications plan, project metric, project control,
designing the control system, the plan-monitor-control cycle and data collection, and reporting.
Project Risk and Procurement Management: Discusses about basic concepts of risk and procurement management, identification, assessment, response planning,
management, project procurement management, and outsourcing.
Implementation Plan and Project Closure: Explores project implementation, administrative closure, project evaluation, and project audit.

About the Author

Dr. Satish R. Billewar (B.E., M.B.A., Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Technology at Datta Meghe College of
Engineering, Airoli, Navi Mumbai. He has more than 10 years of teaching experience. His doctoral research included identifying problems in the
multidisciplinary field of e-Commerce Systems and providing solutions through Total Quality Management. His contributions in the fields of
Software Project Management, e-Commerce, Total Quality Management, and Software Testing Quality Assurance have been published in many
reputed journals and found reference at international conferences.
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Table of Contents
1. An Overview of IT Project Management
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Project and its Attributes

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Concept of Project Management

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Principles of Project Management

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Knowledge Areas of Project Management

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Project Management Framework

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Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)

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Present State of IT Project Management

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Project Life Cycle (PLC)

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Project Selection and Approval

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Project Contracting

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MOV and Its Development

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Business Case and Its Development

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Meaning of Quality and Its Importance

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Quality Philosophies

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Quality Tools

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The IT Project Quality Plan

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Scientific Management and the Total Quality


Management (TQM)

7. Project Human Resource Management


yy Project Organization and Environment

2. Project Feasibility and Selection


Project Feasibility Analysis

Cost Accounting and Management Information


System (MIS)

6. Project Quality Management

yy Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of an IT Project

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yy Project Team
yy Project Governance in IT
yy Managing Change

8. Project Control: Communication and Reporting


yy Basics of Communication Management
yy Objectives of Communication Management

3. Project Scope and Planning and Integration

yy Communication Matrix and Channel


yy Role and Importance of Escalation Matrix

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Organization and Project Planning

yy PlanMonitorControl Cycle (PMC Cycle)

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Project Team

yy Reporting

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Project Scope Management

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Project Planning and Integration Management

9. Project Control: Communication and Reporting


yy Risks in Software Projects
yy Risk Management Process

4. Project Time Management

10. Project Procurement Management


and Outsourcing

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Concept of Time Management in IT Projects

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Project Scheduling

yy Project Procurement Management

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Goldratts Critical Chain

yy Procurement Management Process


yy Software Development Outsourcing: Current Practices

5. Project Cost Management: Cost Estimation and


Budgeting

11. Project Implementation, Closure, and Audit


yy Implementation of Software Projects

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Estimation of Project Cost

yy Evaluating a Software Project

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Budgeting

yy Project Closure

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