Software Engineering Management

Topics for software engineering management

As Software Engineering Management is viewed here as an organizational process which incorporates the notion of process and project management, we have created a breakdown that is both topic-based and life cycle-based. However, the primary basis for the top-level breakdown is the process of managing a software engineering project. There are six major subareas:

• Initiation and scope definition, which deals with the decision to initiate a software engineering project
• Software project planning, which addresses the activities undertaken to prepare for successful software engineering from a management perspective
• Software project enactment, which deals with generally accepted software engineering management activities that occur during software engineering
• Review and evaluation, which deal with assurance that the software is satisfactory
• Closure, which addresses the post-completion activities of a software engineering project
• Software engineering measurement, which deals with the effective development and implementation of measurement programs in software engineering organizations