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Fundamentals of

Software Project
Management (FSPM)
Instructor: Iqra Fahad
(School of Computing)
National University- FAST (KHI C ampus)
Week
1
Book
s
🠶 Text Book:
🠶 Software Project Management: A Practitioner's Approach, E.
M. Bennatan, ISSBN: 978-0077076481, McGraw-Hill Book
Company
🠶 Reference Books:
🠶 Applied Software Project Management, Andrew Stellman, Jennifer
Greene,
ISBN: 978-0596009489, O'Reilly Media.
🠶 A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge
(PMBOK® Guide), 7th edition, Project Management Institute
(PMI).
🠶 Agile Practice Guide, Project Management Institute
(PMI).
Marks
Distribution
🠶 Assignments 05 %
🠶 Quizzes 05 %
🠶 Report 10 %
🠶 Mid Exam 30 % (15%
each)
🠶 Final Exam 50 %
Course
1
Contents
Week
Initiation Phase. Introduction to Project management
Topics

2 Project management in organizations


3 Process Groups
Integration Management
4 Scope Management
5 Schedule (Time) Management
MIDTERM EXAM 1
7 Cost Management
8 Quality Management
9 Resource Management
10 Communication Management
11 Risk Management
MIDTERM EXAM 2
13 Procurement Management
14 Stakeholder Management
15 Professional Management
16 Revision
17 FINAL EXAM
Initiation

🠶 IT professionals (geeks) are qualified and competent


Information Technology (IT) professionals into leadership
positions.
🠶 Some Properties:
🠶 tough minded,
🠶 open to new ideas, and
🠶 customer-service orientation
🠶 The work we do improves lives
Selecting a Geek
Leader
🠶 They are promoted .
🠶 Selection Criteria:
1.Does the geek have courage: Leaders need the mental and moral strength to take
reasonable risks, persist during difficult times, and endure when situations seem difficult
or dangerous.

2.Does the geek communicate well?


3.Is the geek proactive? understand their priorities, take action to obtain realistic goals
in a proactive manner
Deming Cycle (Plan, Do, Check, Act)
4.Is the geek capable of establishing and pursuing a unified vision? align their team’s
tasks
with the organization’s business objectives

5.Is the geek accountable? (Document, Train, Measure, Praise)


6.Does the geek have personal credibility? Leaders need to be believable. They need the
respect and trust of their customers, their managers, their peers, and their team members.
He must be honest.
Selecting a Geek Leader
(cont…)
7.Is the geek trustworthy and reliable?

8.Does the geek manage feelings? Leaders must be emotionally intelligent; they
must
be aware of their own feelings and their impact on the people around them.

9.Does the geek lead by example?

10.Can the geek manage risk?

11.Is the geek a problem solver?

12.Is the geek capable of continuously improving processes?

13.Does the geek balance work and life priorities?


The Geek Leadership
Challenge
“In that day you will be like a man who runs from a lion, only to
meet a bear. Escaping from the bear, he leans his hand against a
wall in his house and he’s bitten by a snake”
Leadership
Attributes
IT Projects
outcome
Effective Complex Project
Management (ECPM)
Framework
Scope Triangle
“Tip

🠶 “ Work Smart, not
hard”
What is
SPM?

🠶 Maintain flow
🠶 Manage outcomes (Deliverables)
🠶 Use tools and techniques
🠶 Improve operation
🠶 New requirement
🠶 Aim is to achieve all the objectives remaining in its define
constraint
🠶 Time
🠶 Cost
🠶 Scope
Project Vs Process
(Operation)
🠶 Definite time
🠶 Resources
🠶 Budget
🠶 Deliverable parameters
🠶 Has an end
🠶 Need to update an operation (Operation) that result in some
deliverable.
People
( Resource)
International Business
Environment
PM
Processes
🠶 Initiating Process Group
🠶 Planning Process Group
🠶 Executing Process
Group
🠶 Monitoring Process
Group
🠶 Closing Process Group
Project Management
Matrix

Integratio
n Scope
Time

Cost

HR
Quality
Communica tion
Risk
Procurement
Stakeholder
Mang.
Portfolio, Program and
PM
Portfolio
🠶 Portfolio is a collection of program.
🠶 May or may not be related
🠶 Still part of Organizational goal
🠶 Org. maintains a portfolio of all the programs in order to meet its
strategic business goals.
🠶 It handles the governance of Project life cycle
🠶 It maintains the program’s standards, document repository and
any portfolio management tools.
Program

🠶 Program is a related group of projects.


🠶 They are grouped to achieve a Org. goal.
🠶 Categorized work into smaller sets of related
projects.
🠶 May be done sequentially or parallel
Project

🠶 Is temporary
🠶 Produce a deliverable, service or result
🠶 A new work in organization

🠶 Organization combine portfolio, program and project in one


umbrella
known as :
“Organizational Project Management”
Role of
PM
🠶 Leadership
🠶 Motivation
🠶 Team building
🠶 Negotiation
🠶 Conflict
management
Common
Challenges
Project life
cycle
Documenting
Phases
Project/Phase
Gate

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