SEDS 515
Software Management
This course is designed to introduce the students to the software management concepts. Topics will include quality managements concepts and project management concepts. Quality management concepts includes process improvement, capability maturity models and statistical process control. Project management concepts will include scope and time management as well as size measurement and effort estimation models. The course also includes the use of related software.
| Week | Topics |
|---|---|
| 1 | Concepts of Quality Improvement |
| 2 | Quality Control to Quality Assurance to Quality Management |
| 3 | Adding Value through Quality Management |
| 4 | Software Subcultures |
| 5 | Maturity Models |
| 6 | Agile Maturity Models |
| 7 | Changing Patterns |
| 8 | Process Modelling Notations |
| 9 | Process Modelling |
| 10 | Measurement Theory |
| 11 | Measuring Quality |
| 12 | Software Size Measurement and Prediction |
| 13 | Barriers to Organizational Change |
| 14 | Knowledge Based Organizations, Learning Organizations |
