Software Project Management

Teacher:

• Andrea Polini

Lessons schedule:

• Tuesday, 9am-11pm, 4pm-6pm
• Wednesday 9am-11am
• Thursday 11am-1pm (this lesson will not be given every week. Information will be provided in the news section).

Students Office hours:

• Tuesday 3pm-4pm at my office (Polo Lodovici building)

The course intends to provide to the students basic knowledge on the subject of project management with a particular emphasis on the production of complex software systems

The course is structure over three different modules that in any case will result in a unique final grade.

• The first module (6CFU) will be mainly devoted to project management strategies in the area of software production, with a particular emphasis on Agile methodologies.

The list of topics covered by the course are:

• Agile Project Management
  • Scrum
  • eXtreme Programming
  • Lean
  • Kanban
• Principles of Software Project Management
• Project Planning
• Risk Assessment
• Cost Estimation
• Staffing
• Configuration management
• Project Monitoring
• Market Analysis
• PMI Body of Knowledge

Course Slides

Textbooks

• [HC] Bob Hughes, Mike Cotterell - Software Project Management, 5th Ed. - McGraw-Hill, 2009
• [SG] Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene - Learning Agile - Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean and Kanban - O'Reilly Media, 2015
• [PM] PMI Institute - PMBOK Guide - PMI 2013

Reference Books

• [IS] Ian Sommerville - Software Engineering, 10th Ed. - Pearson Education, 2016
• [RP] Roger Pressman, Bruce Maxim - Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, 8th Ed. - McGraw-Hill, 2015

Exam Dates A.Y. 2016/2017

• February 28th, 2017 at 11am in AB2 room
• March 14th, 2017 at 11am in AB2 room
• April 11th, 2017 at 11am in AB2 room
• July 4th, 2017 at 11am in AB2 room
• July 18th, 2017 at 11am in AB2 room
• September 12th, 2017 at 11am in AB2 room
• September 16th, 2017 at 11am in AB2 room

Exam rules:

• The course foresee a final written exam in which the student will have to answer questions or solve exercises on the different part of the course. The exam will last around 2 hours. Students willing to improve their final mark can ask for an additional oral examination.

Exam Results

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