Effective Software Project Management

Effective Project Management?- Effective Project Management is very crucial to the project.
- Projects are run successfully by a judicious mix of training, mentoring and management support.
- The synergistic effort leads to improved performance and achievements.

 

Project Management Aspects
We can evaluate the project management activity on two basic aspects

1) Technical Aspects
- This aspect involves the technical skills required, having the essential project management processes in place, and the presence of standards

2) Human Aspect
- This aspect involves the ability to gel well with the team members/ subordinates, coaxing them to fulfill the work obligations, motivating them to higher levels of performance and so on.

Software Projects – What are failures?

Why do projects fail?
- The projects are not the same and will always have a different degree of failure.
- The varying degree of failure will decide the criticality of the project.

Project classification
- We can classify projects as Type I and Type II projects.

Type I projects
Let’s take an example of a flyover bridge.
- This bridge is visible and has an intrinsic value.
- This bridge is visualized as an end product. It also has a class (2 way lane, 4 way lane and so on)
- More the classes and features, more is the complexity associated with the project.
- Since the features are discussed and focused upon in the initial phases, the success of these kind of projects is more.