Managing IT Projects
Duration:
1 teaching period
Unit Code:
SWE30010
Contact Hours:
Recommended 10 hours of study per week
About this unit
This unit of study aims to expose students to the range of project management practices that are used in contemporary software development projects, so that they learn and understand the major issues that project managers have to handle.
Content
Project management issues
- Scope, time, cost, quality
- Risk
- Work breakdown structures
- Estimation techniques
- Project planning techniques
Risk management
- Common project risk categories
- Risk identification and prioritisation
Managing risks using spikes
- Quality management
- Defect identification and classification
- Quality reviews
- Defect reporting
- Change logs
Measurement
- Size and complexity metrics
- Metric tools
- Relationships between defect and metrics
- Tracking and reporting
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