What is the Cost Performance Index (CPI)? The Cost Performance Index (CPI) is a method for calculating the cost efficiency and financial effectiveness of a specific project through the following […]
Unit 9: Using Project Management Effectively
Why Change Fails? The short answer: politics Many project problems are bigger than just your project You have to make changes to the way people in your organization work Your […]
Unit 8: Software Testing
Quality Quality means “conformance to requirements” The best testers can only catch defects that are contrary to specification. Testing does not make the software perfect. If an organization does not […]
Unit 4: Project Schedules
What is a project schedule? The project schedule is a calendar that links the tasks to be done with the resources that will do them. Before a project schedule can […]
Unit 3: Estimation
What is estimation? The project manager must set expectations about the time required to complete the software among the stakeholders, the team, and the organization’s management. If those expectations are […]
Unit 1: Software Project Basics
Software Project A Software Project is the complete procedure of software development from requirement gathering to testing and maintenance, carried out according to the execution methodologies, in a specified period […]