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