Software Project Management – The complete course

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: General

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Course Structure

Lecture 3: What is software project management

Lecture 4: Project management skills

Lecture 5: The role and responsibility of a software project manager

Lecture 6: How to manage a software project successfully?

Lecture 7: Project management steps

Lecture 8: The scenario in a software project

Lecture 9: Roles & Responsibilities

Lecture 10: Presentation of a case study

Lecture 11: What is a Gantt chart

Lecture 12: What is a Pert chart

Lecture 13: The project management process: the phases

Lecture 14: The project management process: the connected processes

Lecture 15: How to deal with uncertainties in software development

Lecture 16: The customers role in software development projects

Chapter 2: Software development models

Lecture 1: General

Lecture 2: Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Lecture 3: What are the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) phases?

Lecture 4: Waterfall model

Lecture 5: V model

Lecture 6: Incremental model

Lecture 7: RAD model

Lecture 8: Agile model

Lecture 9: Iterative model

Lecture 10: Spiral model

Lecture 11: Prototype model

Chapter 3: Risk Assessment

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Software Risk Identification

Lecture 3: Software Risk Analysis

Lecture 4: Software Risk Planning

Lecture 5: Software Risk Monitoring

Lecture 6: Contingency plans

Lecture 7: Presentation of the typical risk report

Chapter 4: Change management

Lecture 1: What is Change Management

Lecture 2: The Change Management Process

Lecture 3: Agile Change Management Process

Chapter 5: The Deployment process

Lecture 1: The deployment process

Lecture 2: Agile Software Deployment

Chapter 6: Agile Frameworks

Lecture 1: Agile methodology

Lecture 2: Agile Frameworks – Scrum

Lecture 3: The Scrum Sprint Cycle

Lecture 4: Scrum Release Planning

Lecture 5: Sprint Planning

Lecture 6: The Daily Scrum

Lecture 7: The Sprint Review

Lecture 8: The Retrospective Meeting

Lecture 9: The Kanban Agile System

Lecture 10: Kanban Boards

Lecture 11: Team size in a Scrum project

Chapter 7: Agile project management

Lecture 1: What is agile project management?

Lecture 2: Agile Ceremonies

Lecture 3: Implement agile programs

Lecture 4: Use workflows

Lecture 5: Agile structures: Epics, Stories, Themes, and Initiatives

Lecture 6: Epics

Lecture 7: User stories

Lecture 8: Initiatives & Themes

Lecture 9: Agile Estimation

Lecture 10: Metrics

Lecture 11: Estimate the story points

Chapter 8: Project Management – Concepts

Lecture 1: Project management concepts

Lecture 2: Characteristics of a project

Lecture 3: Tasks in a project

Lecture 4: The Output of a project

Lecture 5: Diagram of a project

Lecture 6: The work breakdown structure: breakdown the project phases

Lecture 7: The work breakdown structure: assign WBS codes to phases and tasks

Lecture 8: The Milestones

Lecture 9: Why we should define and use milestones?

Lecture 10: The release plan

Lecture 11: Traditional project management

Lecture 12: The case of Agile project management

Lecture 13: Case Study – An eLearning membership website – setup the project plan (I)

Lecture 14: Case Study – An eLearning membership website – setup the project plan (II)

Lecture 15: Case Study – An eLearning membership website – setup the project plan (III)

Lecture 16: Case Study – An eLearning membership website – setup the project plan (IV)

Lecture 17: Case Study – An eLearning membership website – setup the project plan (V)

Lecture 18: Case Study – An eLearning membership website – setup the release plan

Chapter 9: Project Management – Application – MS Project: Create your project plan

Lecture 1: where and how to choose microsoft project

Lecture 2: Installation and Overview of the tool

Lecture 3: Overview of the tool

Lecture 4: Create a project

Lecture 5: Overview of the tool 2

Lecture 6: Add tasks

Lecture 7: Import tasks

Lecture 8: Manipulate tasks (move, edit, delete)

Lecture 9: Implement the hierarchy and WBS to your tasks: indent and outdent tasks

Lecture 10: Define start, end dates and durations

Lecture 11: Add milestones to a project

Lecture 12: Link tasks: task relationship