Maintenance - Donald Bren School of Information and Computer 维修-唐纳德布伦信息与计算机学院.ppt

Management Poor management is the downfall of many software projects Software project management is different from other engineering management product is intangible still no clear understanding of the software process or evaluation criteria most software projects are new and technically innovative Management Activities Proposal writing overview, estimates, justification Project Costing software cost estimation Project planning and scheduling milestones, options to minimize risks Project monitoring and reviewing progress, compare to schedule and planned costs, predict problems Personnel selection and evaluation skill, experience, training, resources Report writing and presentation primary summary documentation and progress reviews Project Planning and Scheduling Project planning determines a project schedule based upon project constraints (delivery, staff, budget) project parameters (structure, size, functions) project milestones and deliverables Planning and scheduling must estimate risk associated with each decision Project Scheduling involves separating work into tasks and predicting task completion coordinate parallel tasks to optimize work force allow for problems Schedule must be periodically revised with progress Software Cost Estimation Principal components of project costs derive from hardware, travel and training, and effort Initial cost estimation should be based on firm, complete requirements Continual cost estimation is required to ensure that spending is in line with budget Software Cost Estimation should use multiple techniques to predict costs: historical cost information relating metrics and costs analogies to similar systems expert “guestimation” hierarchical estimations Algorithmic Cost Modeling Model built by analyzing the attributes and costs of completed projects metrics usually measure attributes of finished product (so predictions may be inaccurate) metrics typically include size or function points (external interactions) margin of error lo