W. Michael McCracken ( mike@cc.gatech.edu
)
Office: CoC Room 265, x6172
Office Hours: by appointment, send mail to gwen@cc.
Aparna Pappu. ( aparna@cc.gatech.edu
)
Office Hours: by appointment
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Class Hours Tuesday and Thursday 4:35 pm to 5:55 pm
Fall 97 Webpage
and class notes
This course covers the organization, operation and management of the
information industry and in particular the management of software projects.
Two interesting topics we need to talk about. This course is based on reality, that is, you are the workers and I am the big boss who sits in his chair and smokes cigars and criticizes everything you do. The course is to be run as a group learning process with me learning as well as you. What this means is a lot of group interaction and no formal class room lectures with me standing at the board and you falling asleep. You are Georgia Tech students and I expect that you are self motivated, and capable of self management and possess the skills that allow you to understand a problem and formulate a solution. As far as discussions with your classmates, I assume you have accounts on the appropriate machines and thus, you can have mail discussions with me and your fellow students. If you don't have a background in software engineering (i.e., CS 3302 ), get out of this class.
The only rule is have a good time. If you aren't having a good time with this class , I suggest you look for another class.
Software process assessment using the CMM model as outlined by the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
Project Plan due date is October 27 1998
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| Date | Topic |
| Sept 24,26 | Introduction and Project Assignments (Process Models & Organizations) |
| Sept 29, Oct 1 | Process Models and Process Assessment (What is CMM?) |
| Oct 3, 6, 8 | Management 101 |
| Oct 10, 13, 15 | Planning |
| Oct 17 | Project Origins (RFPs SOWs, Business Plans) |
| Oct 20, 22 | Work Decomposition (Sometimes called Planning)[HW1 due Oct 20] |
| Oct 24 | Resources and Risk Analysis (Permute known and unknown) |
| Oct 27 | Planning & Risk Management |
| Oct 29 | Midterm |
| Nov 3 | More Rot (Cost and Schedule Estimating - and the Mythical Man Month) |
| Nov 5 | Process Metrics (How many dynes per SLOC) |
| Nov 10 | Total Quality Assurance |
| Nov 12 | More Q&A |
| Nov 17 | Configuration Management |
| Nov 19 | Risk Management & What Can Go Wrong |
| Nov 24 | Organizing Software and Development Groups |
| Week of Dec 1 | Project Presentations |
| Week of Dec 7 | Final Exam |