COMP8110: Managing Software Projects in a System Context

(6 units)

Second Semester

30 one-hour lectures and 6 two-hour Laboratory sesions

Lecturer: Clive Boughton

Prerequisites

Enrolment in the MSE program is required.

It will be assumed that the student has at least the mathematical maturity that is normally expected of any engineering graduate. It will be assumed that student has the sort of exposure to software projects that would come from two years of industrial experience as a graduate.

Co-requisites

There are no corequisites.

Syllabus

A practical approach to the planning and managing of a small to medium software project will be described. The major issues of identifying stakeholders, stating objectives, scoping, estimating, resourcing, scheduling, ethics, re-planning will be discussed in the context of the PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge).

Assessment

There will be an approximately even split of marks between a final exam and a project completed in teams of two (or three).