Project management is the art of matching a project's goals, tasks, and resources to accomplish a goal.
In order to manage a software development project successfully, a project manager must combine specific knowledge, skills, effort, experience, capabilities, and even intuition. They are all necessary in order to be able address the following issues :
Identifying the variables that need to be managed and controlled during software development
Organizing the development team
Acertaining the indicators and measures for the product's quality
Establishing and employing a certain set of development practices
Determining the transition of a software development organization to a new modeling and/or development paradigm
Creating and maintaining good relationships with customers
Profiling the remedial actions to take when something goes wrong in the course of the project
Identifying the heuristics that can help managers in conducting the software development process
The manager of a software development project should answer the above questions in the context of the project itself. However, the manager should possess a vast amount of knowledge transcending the boundaries of any specific project.
Software development is a complex process which involves activities such as domain analysis, requirements specification, communication with the customers and end-users, designing and producing different processes, adopting new paradigms and technologies, evaluating and testing software products, installing and maintaining the application at the customer site, providing customer support, organizing end-user's training and envisioning potential upgrades.
We at Omniscient understand all the ins and outs of effective project management. In order to keep everything under control, eliminate delays, always stay within the budget, and prevent project runaways, i.e. situations in which cost and time exceed what was planned, our software project managers exercise control and guidance over the development team throughout the project's lifecycle. In doing so, they apply a number of tools of both economic and managerial nature. The first category of tools includes budgeting, periodic budget monitoring, user chargeback mechanism, continuous cost/benefit analysis, and budget deviation analysis. Our managerial toolbox includes both long-range and short-term planning, schedule monitoring, feasibility analysis, software quality assurance and the like.
All of these activities and tools help us manage a number of important issues in the process of software development. The above figure illustrates some of the issues, but definitely not all of them.
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