Software/Web Project Management

Software/Web Project Management is a sub-discipline of Project management in which software projects are planned, monitored and controlled.

Project Planning

The purpose of Project Planning is to identify the scope of the project, estimate the work involved, and create a project schedule. Project planning begins with requirements that define the software to be developed. The project plan is then developed to describe the tasks that will lead to completion.

Project Monitoring and Control

The purpose of Project Monitoring and Control is to keep the team and management up to date on the project's progress. If the project deviates from the plan, then the project manager can take action to correct the problem. Project monitoring and control involves status meetings to gather status from the team. When changes need to be made, Change control is used to keep the products up to date.

Software requirements

Requirements analysis is a term used to describe all the tasks that go into the instigation, scoping and definition of a new or altered computer system. Requirements analysis is an important part of the software engineering process; whereby business analysts or software developer identify the needs or requirements of a client; having identified these requirements they are then in a position to design a solution.

Risk Management

Risk Management is the process of measuring, or assessing risk and then developing strategies to manage the risk. In general, the strategies employed include transferring the risk to another party, avoiding the risk, reducing the negative effect of the risk, and accepting some or all of the consequences of a particular risk. Traditional risk management, which is discussed here, focuses on risks stemming from physical or legal causes (e.g. natural disasters or fires, accidents, death, and lawsuits).

Software Process

A software development process is concerned primarily with the production aspect of software development, as opposed to the technical aspect. These processes exist primarily for supporting the management of software development, and are generally skewed toward addressing business concerns.

Problems in Software/Web Projects

The problems in software projects come from three different viewpoints. There are project managers,developers and customers. The problems faced by project managers if he/she poor in role definition, poor in estimating and planning, lack of decision making skills. Project managers do need to face the schedule, budget and quality constraints. However, the problems faced by developers if he/she is lack of knowledge in application area, lack of standard, lack of up to date documentations, deadline pressure, changes of application requirement. Lastly, the problems faced by customers is the monetary constraints, receive the products out of the actual time that should be deliver.






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