Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student will be able to : • Explain the life cycle of an IT project. • Identify the actions to be taken as project manager during the different phases of the project. • Resolve quality issues and risks associated with the project. • Mastering methods and tools that help a project manager to carry out the project successfully.

Content

• Project management: methods, referents, models, certifications, life cycles. • Essentials of a project cycle management method. • Risk management. • Quality management. • Time, effort and resource management. • Estimation and regression models. • Management of objectives and scope. • Role management.

Assessment method

Written or oral examination 45% Project 40%. Student presentation 15

Sources, references and any support material

• B. Boehm, Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II, Prentice Hall, 2000 • W. Royce, Software Project Management: A Unified Framework, Addison-Wesley, 1998 • F. Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month, Addison-Wesley, 1995. • A. Stellman, Applied Software Project Management, O'Reilly, 2005 • P. Jalote, Software Project Management in Practice, Addisson-Wesley, 2002 • P. Kruchten, The Rational Unified Process, Addisson-Wesley, 2003

Language of instruction

French