Mumbai University > Information Technology > Sem 7 > Software Project Management

Marks: 5 M

Year: May13, May14, Dec14

To make project Successful the following thinks is needed:

• User involvement: Users can be thought of as the project’s customer. Users are important project stakeholders that should be involved in important decisions of a project.
• Executive Supports: The Support of upper management is critical in terms of acquiring and maintaining financial backing for the project.
• Clear Business Objectives: The project’s stakeholders must focus on the core value of the project. This includes understanding the larger picture of how a particular project supports the business and organization strategies.
• Emotional Maturity: Projects are planned organizational change. Emotional maturity focuses on the ability and capability to understand and mange the emotions and action of the various stakeholder of projects.
• Optimization: The Optimization of IT centres making systems, processes, and people as efficient and effective as possible in order to provide highest level of value to the organization.
• Agile Process: An agile process supports the users/developer relationship by encouraging team work, collaboration, and evolving requirements.
• Project management Expertise: Project manger must be skilled in both project management knowledge and the organization environment.
• Skilled Resources: To be successful a project manager must be able to acquire, manage, and control the right resources at the right time. This may include the ability to develop people or replace a key project team member due to turnover.
• Execution: Project are executed or carried our according to a plan. This first requires developing a realistic plan.
• Tools and Infrastructure: This means having the right tool for the job, but also having the skill to use that tool properly.

These are the need for IT Project Management.