Software Engineering and Project Management VTU University 6th SEM Computer science and Engineerings|21CS61 notes

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Chapters of Software Engineering and Project Management 

Module 1

Software and Software Engineering: The nature of Software, The unique nature of WebApps, Software Engineering, The software Process, The Software Engineering Practice, The software myths, How it all starts.

Process Models:Ageneric process model, Process assessment and improvement, Prescriptive process models, Waterfall model, Incremental process models, Evolutionary process models, Concurrent models, Specialized process models.

Module 2:

Understanding Requirements: Requirements Engineering, Establishing the ground work, Eliciting Requirements, Developing use cases, Building the requirements model, Negotiating Requirements, Validating Requirements.

Requirement Modeling Scenarios, Information and Analysis classes:Requirement Analysis, Scenario based modeling, UML models that supplement the use case, Data modeling Concepts class based modeling.

Module 3

Agile Development: What is Agility?, Agility and the cost of change, What is an agile process?, Extreme Programming (XP), Other agile process models, A tool set for agile process.

Principle that guide practice: Software Engineering Knowledge, Core principles, Principles that guide each framework activity.

module 4

Introduction to Project Management: Introduction, Project and Importance of Project Management, Contract Management, Activities Covered by Software Project Management, Plans, Methods and Methodologies, Some ways of categorizing Software Projects, Stakeholders, Setting Objectives, Business Case, Project Success and Failure, Management and Management Control, Project Management life cycle, Traditional versus Modern Project Management Practices.

module 5

Activity Planning: Objectives of Activity Planning, When to Plan, Project Schedules, Sequencing and Scheduling Activities, Network Planning Models, Forward Pass– Backward Pass, Identifying critical path, Activity Float, Shortening Project Duration, Activity on Arrow Networks.

Software Quality: Introduction, The place of software quality in project planning, Importance of software quality, software quality models, ISO 9126, quality management systems, process capability models, techniques to enhance software quality, quality plans.