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Lecture 5 Software Engineering
• Activities insoftwareproject management:
– project planning;
– project scheduling;
– risk management;
– managing people.
Mike ... 5 Software Engineering
2 Project Planning
• The biggest single problem that afflicts
software developing is that of
underestimating resources required for a
project.
• Developing a realistic project ... understanding of how to
engineer large scale software projects.
– Large software projects are often “bespoke”.
Most large software systems are
one-off, with experience gained in one
project being of...
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transmitted by symbols, constituting the distinctive ... Again
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As indicated in Section II, making people winners in-
volves seeking out day-to-day conflicts and changing them
into win-win situations. ... software case studies, softvvare
development, software maintenance, software management, software
personnel management, softwareplanning and control.
I. INTRODUCTION
S
OFTWARE projectmanagement ...
pabilities to remain consistent with the three scheduled
increments; then defining an Increment 4 and assuring the
users that their remaining features would definitely be in-
corporated in Increment...
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chorionic gonadotrophin induced ovulation versus urinary
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P450c17, leading to increased androgen biosynthesis in
ovary and adrenal glands [8]. The use of insulin-sensitizing
agents such as metformin has been ... strategy to improve the level of circulating
insulin and insulin sensitivity in PCOS patients with
hyperinsulinemia [35].
Non-obese PCOS patients without insulin resistance also
have been reported...
... set, and the
means of attaining those objectives and monitoring performance
are determined.”
Projects, Programmes, ProjectManagement and Programme Management are defined in
BS6079 and the UK ... in the management of projects?
DR12 Do project processes reduce reporting requirements to the minimum necessary?
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A guide to governance of project management
Appendix 2 continued
Section ... when independent scrutiny of projects and
project management systems is required, and implement such scrutiny accordingly.
9 There are clearly defined criteria for reporting project status and for...
...
transfer. The project required the following:
•A complete renovation of a formulation and filling suite,
including a new separate air-handling system
Case Studies in Pharmaceutical
Project Management
A ... Effective projectmanagement is the cornerstone of
being a complete provider of services ranging from devel-
opment of new products to technical transfer of existing
products. Building the proper project ... project on time, to specifications, and with
the necessary communication to prevent or mitigate project
delays. To illustrate the importance of projectmanagementin
outsourcing, several industry...
... estimates, encouraging their involvement in the meetings will increase their
feeling of ownership of the final estimates that are generated by the team. When the non-
engineers participate in the discussion ... into a project schedule. Additional information on
COCOMO can be found inSoftware Cost Estimation with Cocomo II by Barry Boehm et al.
(Prentice Hall PTR, 2000).
The Planning Game
The Planning ... started again, the
project manager must document the missing information by creating or modifying the
vision and scope document (see Chapter 2).
2. During either Step 1 or 3, if the team determines...
... used
successfully in solving local environmental problems such as river-basin
management and co -management of ranching and wildlife in Oregon.
However, experiences in developing countries are ... naturalistic
investigations. As Bechtel and Richardson (1993) point out, we have severe
limitations in our intuitive understanding of systems, which also explains
our natural inclination toward ... populations in the project planning. The lack of
in- depth regular evaluations of the field projects also limits their heuristic
value. As a result, many initiatives are likely to remain “small...
... system
integration, maintenance, and re-engineering using program transformation. In fact, some applications of
GAs exist concerning the software engineering experimentation [9], software integration ... existing software projects justifies the research into computer aided tools
to properly plan the project development. Current software projects usually demand complex management
involving scheduling, ... found.
Metaheuristics and, in particular, GAs are not as intensively applied in the software engineering domain as
they are in fields like engineering, mathematics, economics, telecommunications or bioinformatics...
... the inputs and deliver the outputs.
Process Groups
The projectmanagement process groups depicted in figure 1 are initiating,
planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing. Initiating ... controlled. Sustained reactive projectmanagement is indicative of
incomplete or absent planning and/or monitoring and controlling.
Project Phases Versus Process Groups
Project management process ... the timing of the deliverable,
closing begins relatively shortly after initiating concludes. Planning and
monitoring and controlling have a collective depth similar to that of executing,
illustrating...
... me thinking about how I can buy more
time for my projects.
I decided to find out if I could gain more time by reducing inefficiencies within the
project team (which also includes myself). In a ... Successful projects result from sound projectmanagement practices, standards,
and processes.
• You can increase project productivity by decreasing project inefficiencies.
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3. Maintaining a Project: Interacting with
Developers
Once you have gotten your project started, you have ... effectively.
Interacting with users is difficult. In our discussion of interaction with developers, the underlying assumption
is that in a free software project, a project maintainer must constantly ... Rejecting patches 19
3.3. Stable and Development Branches 20
3.4. Other ProjectManagement issues 21
3.4.1. Freezing 21
3.5. Forks 22
4. Maintaining a Project: Interacting with Users 23
4.1. Testing...