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COMP3120

Managing Software Projects

Handouts

All handouts for COMP3120 are available from this page.

Course Text

Project Management Techniques by Rory Burke (based on PMBOK)

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge.
(Purchase From PMI) ->Marketplace->Books
available as printed book or on CD

Any of the following can be used as an alternative to Rory Burke:

Information Technology Project Management by Kathy Schwalbe

Managing and Leading Software Projects by Richard Fairley

Introduction to Project Management by Rory Burke

Miscellaneous Documents

The following documents are for those of you who are perhaps interested in the state of play regarding the managing of systems/software projects from around the world. The first document on the list contains less opinions and more in-depth analysis of the problems associated with managing software projects.

A published article on eVACS - (PDF)
Project Management from Cutter Benchmark Review - (PDF)
Joint Royal Academy of Engineers and British Computer Society IT Report - (PDF)

Lecture Topics

2009 version— may be altered in 2010

Course Introduction (PDF)
PMBoK Introduction (PDF-1) (PDF-2)
- Project Lifecycle and Organisation (PDF)
Project Management Frameworks/Standards
- Waterfall, Incremental, Iterative, Agile
Project Management Processes (PDF)
Project Integration Management (PDF)
Scope Management (PDF)
Time Management (PDF)
Cost Management (PDF)
Quality Management (PDF)
Verification and Validation (PDF)
Human Resource Management(PDF)
Communications Management(PDF)
Risk Management(PDF), Selected high res slides (ppt)
Procurement Management(PDF)
Project Closure(PDF)
Course Review(PDF)
References - (PDF)

Assignments & Exercises

2009 version

Assignment Sheet(PDF)
Lecture Plan(PDF)
Project Budget Workshop(PDF)
PM Estimation(PDF)
Risk Analysis(PDF1, PDF2)
WBS Case Study()
WBS Workshop Instructions(PDF)
Network Diagram Case Study(PDF)
Network Diagram with Dates(PDF)
Network Diagram Workshop - Instructions(PDF)

Student Presentation Notes(PDF)

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