The Management Spectrum – 4 Ps and their Significance
Effective software project management focuses on these items (in this order) Deals with the cultivation of motivated, highly skilled people
1. The people
i. Consists of the stakeholders, the team leaders, and the software team
2. The product
i. Product objectives and scope should be established before a project can be planned.
3. The process
i. The software process provides the framework from which a comprehensive plan for software development can be established.
4. The project
i. Planning and controlling a software project is done for one primary reason…it is the only known way to manage complexity
ii. In a 1998 survey, 26% of software projects failed outright, 46% experienced cost and schedule overruns.