SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT MANAGING THE THREE PS by: Mikael Brjeson, CDT

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SOFTWAREPROJECTMANAGEMENTMANAGING THE THREE
PSby Mikael Börjeson, CDT
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• The three Ps to be managed...PEOPLEPROBLEMPROC
  ESS

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I'm an old manI've had many problems...Most of
them never happened!
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Start climbing the learning ladder,and become a
star!Enable a culture of feed-back and
reflection.
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Overloaded? - Identify the "vital few"!The
"Pareto Principle" (80/20)generally applies.
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ProjectManager
ConfigurationManagement
Quality Assurance
System Team
Test Team
Design Team
Design Team
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Motivation, true respect and appreciation come
together
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Using waterfall model, maybe is for
cowards.Using no model, is for kamikaze's only!
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Put the customer in the driving-seat
and...fasten seat-belts!
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REQUREMENT SPECIFICATION...

• PURPOSE
• System functions
• Reliability Performance
• Flexibility of Design
• USAGE
• Operational aspects
• Environmental aspects
• Maintenance aspects
• USER PROFILE
• Age, sex
• Education and experience
• Culture aspects

• CONSTRUCTION
• Tools constraints
• Components
• Architectural constraints
• DEPLOYMENT
• Distribution
• Installation

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Code code where's the code ?
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Decomposition likesnumbers between 4 and 7.
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Be serious - Have Fun!
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• EstimationI swear to say the truth,and
  nothing but the truth,so help me Lichtenberg
• Even a good estimation is a lie, and there
• is but one way to make it become the truth
• Decisive project management!

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Lichtenberg - An Estimation Technique...
Propability
95,5
Resources( Effort / Cost )
2,25
2,25
Likely
Best Case
Worst Case
2 ?
2 ?
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Lichtenberg continued
x 2

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? 4
? 2
Best case
Guess
Worst case
Likely
Uncertainty
Activity
25 h
75 h
125 h
75 h
50 h
Activity
40 h
100 h
200 h
110 h
90 h
Activity
200 h
400 h
1000 h
500 h
500 h
Activity
20 h
40 h
60 h
40 h
20 h
Activity
Subject for breakdown andestimation of
components
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The best way to predict the future, is
to invent it!
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Doing well? - No, so far poor but
improving!Try CMM or SPICE
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Software errors, that doesn't come unexpected,
we call sabotage!Do root cause analysis!
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The quickest way to end a task isto skip it!
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Trouble shooting approach - step 1...Struggling
with a hard problem?Find something to
remove!Lex Öbrink
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Mistakes I did - and do, anyway.What
did I learn today?Feed-back and
Reflectionclimb the learning ladder and become a
star