Project Management in a Software Engineering Solution

Syllabus Point

  • Apply project management to plan and conduct the development and implementation of a project and software engineering solution

Including:

  • scheduling and tracking using a software tool, including Gantt charts
  • using collaboration tools

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Scheduling and tracking using a software tool, including Gantt charts

Gantt charts display each of the component tasks in a proposed system development on an estimated timeline

  • Tasks should have self-explanatory titles + estimated time required
  • Dependent tasks shown
  • Time scale shows important milestones
  • Can be used to allocate resources
  • Charts should be regularly updated during development to reflect actual vs estimated time

Kanban boards

Kanban is a visual project management and workflow system that helps teams manage their work, by balancing demand with capacity.

Using collaboration tools

Essential to manage communication, file sharing, team coordination

  • VSC
  • Communication tools (teams, slack)
  • Cloud document sharing
  • Issue tracking systems (Jira, Github issues)

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