Commercial Programing
Lecture Software Project Planning and Control
Prof Muliaro Wafula
Computing Department
JKUAT
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Software is a part of IS
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Software Project
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Key components of a S/W Project
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Why Plan & Control Projects?
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Why Control/Mgt Project?....1
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Control of S/W Development
Activities….1
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General status of Software
Projects
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Key Reasons why IT Projects Fail
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Example of stakeholder Analysis
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Roles
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Roles...3
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Manager
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Project Team
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Steering Committee
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SC Members
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Project Life Cycle
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Project Execution Approach Selection
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Scope management
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Organization Readiness
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Scope
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Project sizing
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Risk and Issue management
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• Refs:
– Risk Management in Relation to Project
Management (E14)
– The ten Golden rules to Risk management (E15)
Issue Management
Risk management
Detailed project budget
• Reflects the resources required to complete the project tasks
This budget should include the costs required for:
– All project staff salaries and overhead costs
– Services or consultancies necessary to undertake the project
– Physical resources
– Project management costs, i.e. any costs associated with risk
mitigation
• strategies and quality assurance
• Allocate costs to the appropriate level on the WBS
• to allow more accurate cost tracking
HR
• During the planning phase of a project
• A detailed analysis to identify the personnel to complete the
project’s
• activities and tasks on time and to the required level of quality
This analysis should include:
– The mix of skills
– The number of staff needed
– Availability of resources
• Impact by other projects
• Impacted by operational responsibilities
• The costs for these staff, including any training requirements,
should be reflected in the project budget
Physical Resource
• Physical resources bought for the use of the project or operational
• expenses during the project
• Typical physical resource expenditure:
• • Facilities
• – May require modifications and/or fit out to accommodate the team
• • Different environments required
• – Development / Deployment
• – Lab / Sandbox
• – Test
• – Training
• – Final deployment / Production
• • Vehicles Phones and any other equipment or assets.
• The costs for these items should all be reflected in the project budget
Information Resource
• Records management arrangements to be adopted
for the project must
– take into consideration the needs of the project and
agencies/organisations
– providing information to the project.
– For example, the level of application of document control,
information
– storage, backup of hard copy and soft (electronic) copy
records and documents, and the level of documentation to
be maintained.
• If there are costs associated with obtaining and
storing any information, they
– should be reflected in the project budget
