ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 74.25 Hours of tutorials: 2.25 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 112.5
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Electronics and Computing
Areas: Languages and Computer Systems
Center Higher Technical Engineering School
Call: First Semester
Teaching: Sin docencia (Extinguida)
Enrolment: No Matriculable
The subject of "IT Project Management" deals with the planning and implementation of all the different processes of the software life cycle in IT projects, from the appearance of the need of one (or several) client(s) to the withdrawal of the product and/or the end of the project.
This subject includes topics purely of planning management and project control, as well as processes so important as configuration management, problems and changes management, processes of engineering and development, processes of verification and validation, and reviews and audits, etc. Given the nature of project management, the subject is organized according to the content of the PMBOK of PMI.
Item 01. Introduction to the subject
Objectives of the subject
Organization of the subject
Item 02. Project. Concepts and initiation. Configuration Management
Project concept
Project management
The project life cycle
Procedure for managing changes in requirements
Item 03. Estimatation
Introduction
Methods of estimation
Complexity factors
An example
Item 04. Project Planning
Process Planning
Task Planning
Planning restrictions
Item 05. Risk Management
Introduction
Risk Planning
Risk Monitoring
Item 06. Cost Management
Contextualization of the topic
Cost Estimation and Budgeting
Cost Control
Item 07. Human Resources Management
Determination and planning of resources
Human Resources Management according to the PMP
Communications Management
Project communications management according to PMBOK
Stakeholder Matrices
Information and Communication Planning
Information Management
Item 09: Monitoring and Control and Integration
Crisis in IT Projects.
Project Integration Management
Basic References. Available on line:
Notes and Slices of the subject
PMBOK: A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (Pmbok Guide)- Sixth Edition by Project Management Institute, 2017. ISBN: 9781628253900
Complementary References:
Chrissis, Mary Beth; Konrad, Mike; Shrum, Sandy. "CMMI Para el desarrollo, versión 1.3: Guía para la integración de procesos y la mejora de productos", Editorial Universitaria Ramón Areces. España. 2012 ISBN: 978-8499610788
ESTIMATION:
Jack E. Matson, Bruce E. Barrett, and Joseph M. Mellichamp, "Software Development Cost Estimation using Function Points", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol 20, no 4, April 1994.
Marcela Varas C, "Modelo de Gestión de Proyectos Software: Estimación del Esfuerzo de Desarrollo", Informe de Habilitación Profesional para optar al Título de Ingeniero Civil Informático, Universidad de Concepción, 1995.
http://www.inf.udec.cl/~mvaras/papers/arica/arica.htm
Magne Jørgensen, “Practical Guidelines for Expert-Judgment-Based Software Effort Estimation” IEEE Software. May/June 2005
Barry Boehm ‘Safe and Simple Software Cost Analysis’ IEEE Software Septiembre/Octubre 2000
QUALITY MANAGEMENT:
ISO 9000:2000 series: Quality management systems. 2000. ISO
ISO 90003: Software engineering -- Guidelines for the application of ISO 9001:2000 to computer software. ISO
RISK MANAGEMENT:
Boehm, B.W., Software Risk Management: Principles and practices, IEEE Software, 32-41, Enero 1991.
Software risks taxonomy. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/risk/main.html
http://www.decisionmetrics.net
PROCESS ASSESMENT:
ISO/IEC 15504 ISO/IEC Information Technologies – Process assessment (parts 1-5) ISO.
CMM/CMMI Capability Maturity models. Continuous and staged models. www.sei.cmu.edu/CMMI
HUMAN RESOURCES:
J. Fernando Naveda, Stephen B. Seidman “Professional Certification of Software Engineers: The CSDP Program” IEEE Software September/October 2005
At the end of the course, students should master the following aspects:
1. Knowing, analysing and enhancing the factors that influence the success of a project.
2. To estimate the effort needed to carry out a project.
3. Set the calendar of milestones and deliveries and establish the project planning.
4. Know and perform the tasks of monitoring and control of a project.
5. Performing a risk analysis and taking the appropriate preventive and/or palliative measures.
6. Understand concepts and methods associated with quality management and customer satisfaction.
7. Manage changes in project requirements.
8. Manage configuration, being able to maintain proper version control.
9. Manage the budget of a project, making a good control of expenses.
10. Manage the Human Resources, allowing its participation in other projects.
The students must have developed the basic and general competences CB3, CG1, CG2, CG3, CG5, CG6, CG8, CG9, CG12. Students will also work on transversal competences, particularly in terms of analysis and synthesis, organisation and planning, oral and written communication, information management, problem solving and decision making, teamwork and motivation for quality.
As part of the Organisation and Management module in the subject, basic training skills are also developed: FB5, FB6; IT-related skills: RI1, RI2, RI3, RI8 and RI16; and IT-related skills TI1, TI2 and TI5. In addition to these, the subject also covers the last of the competencies in the module, namely: Understanding how an integrated IT project is developed within the business.
Contents of the subject will be taught in both the expository and interactive classes. The theoretical units and the practices will be given in an alternative way, throughout the four-month period, with the aim of consolidating the concepts taught in them and using the theory as the real basis of the practices.
The completion of all the practices is necessary, as well as the attendance to class, to pass the subject, since theory and practices are complemented and taught indistinctly in expository and interactive classes
The resources required for this are as follows:
(a) Copies of the notes on the subject
b) Student access to the bibliography in the Library or on the Internet.
c) Access to MS Project© or OpenProj tools.
d) OpenOffice or LibreOffice for the preparation of the documentation of the practices.
The evaluation section summarizes how the competences are approached through the theoretical and practical content of the subject. Next, the typology of the classes is summarized and how the competences of the subject are approached with their contents and activities throughout the course.
In the scenario 1, adapted normality, described in this section, the teaching will be face-to-face although all the documentation of the subject will be available from the beginning through the Moodle course developed for it. The changes to adapt the methodology to scenarios 2, distance; and 3, closure of the facilities; are described in the contingency plan in the section on comments.
The expository classes must be complemented with one hour of autonomous study by the students and the iterative classes will require a maximum of 3 hours of writing, revision and correction of the work as the project evolves and the knowledge and skills of each student.
Week: 1
Typology: Expository
Content:
Topic 01. Introduction to the subject
Objectives of the subject
Organization of the subject
Week: 2
Typology: Expository
Content:
Item 02. Project. Concepts and initiation. Configuration Management
Project concept
Project management
The project life cycle
Procedure for managing changes in requirements
Typology: Interactive
Content:
Case Study 0: Development of a basic example of a project.
Week: 3
Typology: Expository
Content:
Item 03. Estimatation
Introduction
Methods of estimation
Typology: Interactive
Content:
Case Study 1: Configuration Management Plan
Case Study 2: Scope of a project and catalogue of requirements
Week: 4
Typology: Expository
Content:
Item 03. Estimate
Complexity factors
An example
Typology: Interactive
Content:
Case Study 2: Scope of a project and catalogue of requirements
Week: 5
Typology: Expository
Content:
Topic 04. Planning
Process Planning
Task Planning
Typology: Interactive
Content:
Case Study 3: Estimates of project requirements.
Week: 6
Typology: Interactive
Content:
Case Study 3: Estimates of project requirements.
Week: 7
Typology: Interactive
Content:
Topic 04. Planning
Planning restrictions
Case Study 4: Developing a project plan.
Week: 8
Typology: Interactive
Content:
Case Study 4: Developing a project plan.
Week: 9
Typology: Interactive
Content:
Topic 05. Risk Management
Introduction
Risk Planning
Risk Monitoring
Case Study 5: Preparation of the project risk document.
Week: 10
Typology: Interactive
Content:
Item 06. Cost Management
Contextualization of the topic
Cost Estimation and Budgeting
Cost Control
Case Study 6: Cost estimation and distribution plan.
Week: 11
Typology: Interactive
Content:
Case Study 6: Estimation and cost distribution plan.
Week: 12
Typology: Interactive
Content:
Item 07. Human Resources Management
Determination and planning of resources
Human Resources Management according to the PMP
Case Study 7: Developing a project HR plan
Week: 13
Typology: Interactive
Content:
Communication Management
Project communications management according to PMBOK
Stakeholder Matrices
Information and Communication Planning
Information Management
Case Study 8: Communications plan.
Week: 14
Typology: Interactive
Content:
Topic 09: Monitoring and Control and Integration
Crisis in IT Projects.
Project Integration Management
Case Study 9: Project integration and monitoring
Week: 15
Typology: Interactive
Content:
Case Study 10: Integration of plans. Final document.
In order to pass the subject, students will have to pass both the theory and the practice of the subject separately. The evaluation system described below corresponds to Scenario 1, adapted normality, where the evaluation will be carried out in a face-to-face way. The changes to adapt it to Scenarios 2, distancing; and 3, closure of the facilities; are described in the contingency plan included in the section on comments.
The practical part of the subject, will not be recovered in July, except in those cases where the student reaches 40% of the maximum practical grade, and is then allowed to do all the practices with respect to a new case study specifically proposed for possible recovery. If this is the case, the new case study will be uploaded to the virtual platform one week before the theoretical exam of the subject and with a maximum deadline of the same day and time of the end of the exam. In the evaluation of the work submitted by the students, the degree of achievement of the competences will be assessed, in particular the implementation of the contents contributed by the subject to those competences. In addition, the transversal skills will be assessed insofar as they are required for the development of these works.
The questions of the theoretical test will be focused on the specific contents, which have been developed in the subject, in relation to their competences and that could have been acquired both in the expository and in the interactive part. The average duration of the exam is approximately 2 hours and it may consist of multiple choice questions, short questions and case study problems. The examination will assess the degree of assimilation of the teaching objectives set out in the teaching programme for the subject.
Attendance at both practical and theoretical classes will also be taken into account for the evaluation of the subject
There will be no mid-term examination.
In the case of fraudulent exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations on the evaluation of student academic performance and the review of grades shall apply.
Once both parts are passed separately, the test will be 40% of the final mark and the practices 60%.
In order to have an evaluation of NOT SUBMITTED, one of the following circumstances must be present:
1. Not having attended at least 85% of the practices of the subject.
2. Not having taken the theoretical exam of the subject in spite of having passed the practices of the subject.
3. Not having taken the theoretical exam of the subject and having communicated explicitly and in writing to the person in charge of the subject that he or she has abandoned the subject when, although they have done at least 80% of the practices of the subject, they have not passed the said practices.
Weight of the continuous evaluation in the extraordinary opportunity of recovery (July tests):
1. The grade obtained in the practices during the course is maintained and also its weight in the final grade.
The distribution of competences in the activities and the subject matter are summarised below. However, the score obtained by the students in the practices will correspond to that of Case Study 10. This is due to the fact that all the practical cases are related to a single project whose final documentation corresponds to the said Practical Case. In it, the students must hand in all the previous works with the corrections linked to the learning acquired during the course. For this reason, those competences developed in all the activities will be linked to this practical case, and others will be included only when they have special relevance in the acquisition of this competence.
Mat 1: Case Study 0, Case Study 10, Theme 1, Theme 2
Mat 2: Case Study 3, Case Study 6, Topic 3, Topic 6
Mat 3: Case Study 4, Theme 4
Matt 4:Case Study 9, Topic 9
Mat 5: Case Study 5, Theme 5
Mat 6: Case Study 2, Case Study 8, Item 8
Mat 7:Case Study 10, Theme 2
Mat 8: Case Study 1, Case Study 10, Theme 2
Mat 9: Case Study 6, Item 6
Mat 10: Case Study 7, Item 7
CB3: Case Study 2, Case Study 7, Theme 5, Theme 7
CG1:Case Study 10
CG2:Case Study 9, Case Study 10
CG3:Case Study 10, Item 9
CG5:Case Study 10
CG6:Case Study 10
CG8:Item 2
CG9:Case Study 10
CG12:Theme 4, Theme 6, Theme 7
FB5:Item 2
FB6:Item 2
RI1: Case Study 2
RI2: Case Study 2, Case Study 4, Case Study 6, Case Study 9
RI3: Case Study 7, Case Study 8
RI8: Case Study 2, Case Study 10
RI16:Theme 2
TI1: Case Study 2
TI2: Case Study 6, Case Study 9, Case Study 10
TI5: Case Study 2, Case Study 9, Case Study 10
The total time of study and personal work of the student is 90 hours, distributed approximately as follows:
1. Autonomous study: 5 hours
2. Writing exercises, conclusions or other works: 20 hours
3. Programming/experimentation or other computer/laboratory work: 40 hours
4. Evaluation of works, projects, exams, ... : 25 hours
Other activities may be proposed (problem solving, text reading and case studies, etc). In the case of compulsory activities, they will not result in an increase in total workload (the hours of activities 2 and 4 will be reduced, when appropriate).
The material of the classes should be complemented with the recommended bibliography; especially with the documentation related to CMMI and PMP
CONTINGENCY PLAN
In scenario 1, adapted normality, as described in its sections on teaching methodology and assessment system, the teaching and examination will be face-to-face, and all the documentation of the subject will be available from the beginning through the Moodle course of the subject.
In the case of scenarios 2 and 3 of distance and closure of the facilities respectively, the teaching methodology and assessment system will be modified as follows.
Scenario 2: Distancing.
Teaching Methodology: In this scenario the teaching of the subject will be exclusively non-presential using the Teams tool. The practical part of the course will be done in person unless the dynamics of the practice requires an extensive presentation of contents or the imposed measures of distance cannot be fulfilled. In these cases, the practices can also be carried out in a non-presential way for some part of the group, establishing in these circumstances the necessary turns to guarantee an equitable distribution of presential and remote classes among all the members. Tutorials, unless the student requests otherwise, will be carried out exclusively telematically through any of the means available to the student, e-mail or, videoconference or chat, through Teams.
Evaluation system: The delivery of practices assignments will also be made by telematic means through the Moodle tool. Class attendance for the continuous assessment will continue to be registered by means of signatures in the case of attendance and through the Teams utilities for the telematic case, being applicable the attendance criteria indicated in the assessment system. The theoretical examination of the subject will be carried out in person.
Scenario 3: Facility closure
Teaching methodology: In this scenario, teaching will be exclusively remote. In the lectures, as in the previous scenario, the Teams tool will be used. The practical part will also be done remotely, for which channels will be generated in the Teams tool for the interaction of the practice teams within each group, so that students can communicate, exchange and share documents through their utilities. Through the meetings in these channels, which will take place at times that coincide with the corresponding practice schedules, the teaching staff of the subject will also interact with these teams, advising them and answering any doubts that may arise. The tutorials will be carried out exclusively by telematic means with the same tools indicated in the previous scenario.
Evaluation system: The final delivery of the documentation of the practices will continue to be made through the Moodle tool in order to standardize the deliveries against changes in scenarios. In this case, the theoretical examination of the course will be carried out remotely using the utilities provided for this purpose by the Moodle tool. With regard to the assessment of class attendance, in the case of non-attendance, the activity recorded by the tools used will be assessed and the same criteria that have already been established for the normal operation of the course will be applied to these measures.
The rest of the criteria and methodologies proposed for the subject, which have not been modified in this plan, will be applicable in any of the scenarios.
José Manuel Cotos Yáñez
- Department
- Electronics and Computing
- Area
- Languages and Computer Systems
- Phone
- 881816461
- manel.cotos [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
José Ángel Taboada González
Coordinador/a- Department
- Electronics and Computing
- Area
- Languages and Computer Systems
- Phone
- 881816457
- joseangel.taboada [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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