IMPORTANT NOTICE 
(1) Typhoon Signal hoisted on 23 September, 2008. Lecture was cancelled on the Tuesday.
(2) There is no lecture on Chung Yeung Festival Tuesday 7 October, 2008.
(3)   Venue Changes  
Please note that the lecture will be changed to the following venue with effective from Tuesday class October 21, 2008 and Friday class October 24, 2008.

2/F Tung Hip Commercial Building
244-248 Des Voeux Road Central (Opposite to Wing On Department Store)
Sheung Wan MTR Station A1 & A2 Exit

東協商業大廈
香港中環德輔道中244-252號 2/F (上環永安百貨對面)
上環地鐵站 A1 & A2 出口.

(4) Presentation Booking   NEW! 

Dear fellow students,

Please kindly let me know your perferred timeslot for presentation by email to me,
provide me your group leader's full name and class. Each timeslot will be
15 minutes: 5-10 minutes presenation and 5 minutes Q&A. Available timeslots are:

Friday, 21 November 2008; Class B 10th LECTURE.

6:45pm    7:00pm     7:15pm    7:30pm     7:45pm
8:00pm    8:30pm     8:45pm    9:00pm     9:15pm

Tuesday 25 November 2008; Class A 9th LECTURE.

6:45pm    7:00pm     7:15pm    7:30pm     7:45pm
8:00pm    8:30pm     8:45pm    9:00pm     9:15pm

First come first serve! Good luck!

Useful for September to November 2008

Study Guide

• Course presentation slides and course materials from OBU  UPDATED! 
  
  Document Template
• Information Sheet
• Effort Estimation
• Risk Analysis Document
• Project Plan
• Project Proposal
• Here is a list of recommended book list for the course U08784 Software Project Management Recommended Book List from OBU.
  
  Textbook
  
• Bob Hughes & Mike Cotterell, Software Project Management 4h Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2006 ISBN 0077109899 CALL NO. 510.7834 HUG
• Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering - A Practitioner's Approach 5th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2001 ISBN 0073655783 CALL NO. 510.7834 PRE
  
  Informatics Virtual Campus
  
• For any updated official material, official notice and examination schedule
  
  Relevant beyond November 2008
  
  Lecture Presentation Slides and Supplementary Notes from Lecturer
• For supplementary information not covered by the study guide & the textbooks   UPDATED! 
  
  Useful Information
• Useful Reference about software development including Structured Analysis, UML, RUP, project management tools, CASE tools, and etc.   Available Soon 
• Metrics of Estimation and Function Point.
  Some Software Project Management tools and techniques:
  • Function Point Calculator
  • COCOMO Online Calculator (COCOMO 81 Intermediate Version)
  • COCOMO II with Heuristic Risk Assessment
  • COCOMO II Online Calculator
  • Oxford Brookes University (OBU) Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Computing and Information Systems (Registration No. 250479)
    List of Registered Courses - Non-local Higher and Professional Education (Regulation) Ordinance
  • Professional Bodies
    Project Management Institute (PMI) Hong Kong Chapter
    Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
  • Software Development
    UML Resources Page
    Rational software from IBM
    Rational Global User Group - Useful Links
    

News

• [16.Sep.2008]
  In week 1, you are supposed to be familiar with software engineering technique and system development approach. You are advised to form you project group in 3-4 person.
  Assignment will be available soon.
  
  
• [25.Sep.2008]
  In Week 2, you have learnt project planning and what supposed to a project manager. So, this is time to start your project NOW!
  1. organize your project team
  2. define your project objective
  3. schedule your work, plan your next meeting and monitor the progress
  4. draft your project plan (a first version for the project proposal)
  
  
• [20.Oct.2008]
  Please remember to submit your group member list.
  Please note that the lecture will be changed to 2/F Tung Hip Commercial Building with effective from Tuesday class October 21, 2008 and Friday class October 24, 2008.
  
  Week 4 Project Milestone
  1. Have your ballpark effort estimation
  2. Define your cost estimation report contents
  3. Identify your project risk (for risk analysis report)
  4. Revise your project plan (individual)
  
  Week 5 Project Milestone
  1. Have done your effort estimation: cost effort & duration (Part One Completed)
  2. Prepare cost justification on your project
  3. Prepare risk treatment and mitigation plan for your project risks (risk analysis report)
  4. Review your project quality requirement
  5. Plan for reducing your project timescale (individual)
  6. Draft your quality plan (individual)
  7. Refine your detailed project plan (individual)
  
  
• [31.Oct.2008]
  
  You are recommened to conduct a project review during the tutorial sessions on Week 8 and Week 9 from 8:30 pm (Nov 7 & 14, 2008 for Friday Class and Nov 18 & 25, 2008 for Tuesday Class). Please come and join.
  
  Week 6 Project Milestone
  1. Refine your project schedule according to your progress
  2. Performing your project risk analysis and assessment
  3. Preparing Quality Plan
  4. Define your baseline product (that will be delivered on 25.Nov.2008 for sure)
  
  Week 7 Project Milestone
  1. Complete your Effort Estimation and FPA (Part 1)
  2. Finalizing your Risk Analysis Document (Part 2)
  3. Grap enough information for the presentation.
  4. Identify your deliverables.
  5. Prepare you Project Control activities.
  6. Revise Project Plan according to Part 3's requirement to meet the timescale.
  
  
• [7.Nov.2008]
  
  Week 8 Project Milestone
  1. By this week, the 2nd major milestone, your assignment Part 2 is due and you should complete Part 1 and Part 2;
     Otherwise, you should know the variance between your planned completion and actual completion.
     Devise your action plan to cope with your schedule slippage, if so;
  2. Before finanlizing your group report, you are recommended to conduct project review either internal review within your team or consult your lecturer.
     The remaining tasks by this time should be compiling and printing the group report Part 1 and Part 2.
     
     Starting from this week you should focus on your individual report: Confirm your deliverables for part 3
  3. Decide your project control strategy to meet the timescale requirement
  4. Devise your quality assurance plan (very briefly)
  5. Write-up you quality control activities.
  6. Preparing your individual Project Plan for Part 3

About your coursework assignment

Comments on review   NEW! 

• We have discussed some feedback comments on reviewing some of the draft project reports of part one and part two. You are recommended to take a look at these documents: Review Comments on U08784-SPM T3-2008 Part 1 and Review Comments on U08784-SPM T3-2008 Part 2 as a health check on your project quality.

Presentation

• will be held on the 10th Lecture i.e. 21 & 25 November, 2008. Details will be annouced as soon as possible.
• You must understand the penalties of PLAGIARISM and LATE SUBMISSION as prescribed in the coursework outline.

Project Review

• will be held on the 8th (Nov 7 & 11) and 9th Lectures (Nov 14 & 18). Project group members can gather their draft project documents for progress meeting, quality review and inspection on the second-halves of the two lectures. Alternatively, you may conduct your own progess meeting and reviews.

Deliverables

EACH group member is required to hand-in both HARD COPY and SOFT COPY for ALL of the following parts.
(1) Assignment Cover;
(2) Group: Part One, Part Two (Word document) and Group Presentation Slide (Powerpoint file);
(3) Individual: Part Three.

Remarks

1. Check with the service counter for your Examination Time Table. Check with your IVC account "Subject > Exam Corner > Yes > Exam Time Table > OBU"
2. All students should register the exam. no later than the 4th lecture of each module.
3. Assessment weighing 100% by coursework and no paper examination is requied.
4. Please form your own group in 3-4 and arrange your project meetings to review your progress.
5. Please confirm with Informatics for the offical notice of the lecture schedule and the assignement due date.
6. Submission assignment on time

Last updated 19.Nov.2008