R07 (Elective-II) 4-1 SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

(Elective-II)

UNIT - I

Conventional Software Management : The waterfall model, conventional software Management 

 

performance.

Evolution of Software Economics : Software Economics, pragmatic software cost estimation.

UNIT - II

Improving Software Economics : Reducing Software product size, improving software processes, 

 

improving team effectiveness, improving automation, Achieving required quality, peer inspections.

The old way and the new : The principles of conventional software Engineering, principles of modern 

 

software management, transitioning to an iterative process.

UNIT - III

Life cycle phases : Engineering and production stages, inception, Elaboration, construction, transition 

 

phases.

Artifacts of the process : The artifact sets, Management artifacts, Engineering artifacts, programmatic 

 

artifacts.

UNIT - IV

Model based software architectures : A Management perspective and technical perspective. 

 

Work Flows of the process : Software process workflows, Iteration workflows.

UNIT - V

Checkpoints of the process : Major mile stones, Minor Milestones, Periodic status assessments.

Iterative Process Planning : Work breakdown structures, planning guidelines, cost and schedule 

 

estimating, Iteration planning process, Pragmatic planning.

UNIT - VI

Project Organizations and Responsibilities : Line-of-Business Organizations, Project Organizations, 

 

evolution of Organizations.

Process Automation : Automation Building blocks, The Project Environment.

UNIT - VII

Project Control and Process instrumentation : The seven core Metrics, Management indicators, quality

indicators, life cycle expectations, pragmatic Software Metrics, Metrics automation.

Tailoring the Process : Process discriminants.

UNIT - VIII

Future Software Project Management : Modern Project Profiles, Next generation Software economics, 

 

modern process transitions.

Case Study: The command Center Processing and Display system- Replacement (CCPDS-R)

TEXT BOOK :

1. Software Project Management, Walker Royce: Pearson Education, 2005.

REFERENCES :

1. Software Project Management, Bob Hughes and Mike Cotterell: Tata McGraw-Hill Edition.

2. Software Project Management, Joel Henry, Pearson Education.

3. Software Project Management in practice, Pankaj Jalote, Pearson Education.2005.

ADVANCED COMPUTING CONCEPTS

(ELECTIVE - II)

UNIT I

Grid Computing : Data & Computational Grids, Grid Architectures and its relations to various Distributed 

 

Technologies

UNIT II

Autonomic Computing, Examples of the Grid Computing Efforts (IBM).

UNIT III

Cluster setup & its Advantages, Performance Models & Simulations; Networking Protocols & I/O, 

 

Messaging systems.

UNIT IV

Process scheduling, Load sharing and Balancing; Distributed shared memory, parallel I/O .

UNIT - V

Example cluster System - Beowlf; Cluster Operating systems: COMPaS and NanOS

UNIT - VI

Pervasive Computing concepts & Scenarios; Hardware & Software; Human - machine interface.

UNIT - VII

Device connectivity; Java for Pervasive devices; Application examples

UNIT - VIII

Classical Vs Quantum logic gates ;One ,two & three QUbit Quantum gates; Fredkin & Toffoli gates 

 

;Quantum circuits; Quantum algorithms.

TEXT BOOK :

1. J. Joseph & C. Fellenstein:’ Grid Computing ‘, Pearson Education.

2. J.Burkhardt et .al :’Pervasive computing’ Pearson Education

3. Marivesar:’Approaching quantum computing ‘, Pearson Education.

REFERENCES :

1. Raj Kumar Buyya:’High performance cluster computing’, Pearson Education.

2. Neilsen & Chung L:’Quantum computing and Quantum Information’, Cambridge University Press.

3. A networking approach to Grid Computing , Minoli, Wiley.