Software Project Management SPM

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Software Project Management (SPM)

• Lecture 13
• Project Termination
• Using Tools
• Dr. Daniel Keret

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Reading Assignment

• Quality Software Project Management, R. Futrell,
  D. Shafer, L. Shafer, Prentice-Hall PTR 2002.
• Chapter 27

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Why Terminate

• Close Project Phase The project reached its
  objectives.
• Business Reasons
• The project no longer follows the corporate
  business strategy
• Better solution was found
• Better use of funds in other initiatives
• The customer no longer wants the project
• Market conditions were changed
• Technical Reasons
• Technology was changed/ Not mature enough
• Technology too old/ too expensive to maintain
• No big enough advantage over current technology
• The project can not be done with the proposed
  technology
• Scope Reasons
• Large/Frequent requirements changes

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Why Terminate (Cont.)

• Schedule Reasons
• Project ran out of time/due date
• Cost Reasons
• Exceed Budget/Available funds
• ROI changed (looking forward, ignoring SUNK
  COSTS)
• Quality reasons
• Does not work good enough to satisfy customers
• Does not worth fixing

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Post Performance Analysis (PPA)

• Perform at termination or at predefined points
  during the project life cycle
• Continuous improvements - Lesson learned capture
  and pass to future projects
• Analysis Process
• Call PPA meeting, Gather and distribute
  Dimensional Data to the members
• Analytical phase of raw data by the PPA members
• PPA meeting, Short, Focus on processes not people
• Categorize data, findings, improvement
  recommendations
• Archive (standard corporate form) distribute
  finding (short, concise)

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Software Contract Termination

• Termination Types
• Project End
• Planned Termination.
• Contract closure activities
• Termination for convenience
• Software vendor perform according to the contract
• The customer wishes to terminate due to internal
  reasons
• Termination for cause
• The vendor does not perform according to the
  contract
• The customer wishes to terminate the
  project/replace the vendor/sign a new contract
• Damages
• Termination for convenience/cause usually
  involves damages payments according to the
  contract terms/arbitration/judge resolution

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Using Tools

• Sources of tools
• System Integrators brings in their own set of
  tools
• Standard Operation Equipment (SOE), The corporate
  adapted set of tools for project
  management/Software project management
• Project Management specific set of tools
• Sub projects specific set of tools
• Project Management/Employees as well as the
  Stakeholders should be familiar with the tools
  adapted by the project
• Example for project management tools Microsoft
  Project, Prince2/Project-in-a-box, GanttProject,
  etc