BCS501 VTU Notes: Software Engineering & Management

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Software Engineering & Project Management

BCS501

2022 Scheme

Module 1 : Software and Software Engineering

Software and Software Engineering: The nature of Software, The unique nature of WebApps, Software Engineering, The software Process, Software Engineering Practice, Software Myths.
Process Models: A generic process model, Process assessment and improvement, Prescriptive process models: Waterfall model, Incremental process models, Evolutionary process models, Concurrent models, Specialized process models. Unified Process , Personal and Team process models

Module 2 : Understanding Requirements

Understanding Requirements: Requirements Engineering, Establishing the ground work, Eliciting Requirements, Developing use cases, Building the requirements model, Negotiating Requirements, Validating Requirements.
Requirements Modeling Scenarios, Information and Analysis classes: Requirement Analysis, Scenario based modeling, UML models that supplement the Use Case, Data modeling Concepts, ClassBased Modeling.
Requirement Modeling Strategies : Flow oriented Modeling , Behavioral Modeling.

Module 3 : Agile Development

Agile Development: What is Agility?, Agility and the cost of change. What is an agile Process?, Extreme Programming (XP), Other Agile Process Models, A tool set for Agile process .
Principles that guide practice: Software Engineering Knowledge, Core principles, Principles that guide each framework activity.

Module 4 : Introduction to Project Management

Introduction to Project Management: Introduction, Project and Importance of Project Management, Contract Management, Activities Covered by Software Project Management, Plans, Methods and Methodologies, Some ways of categorizing Software Projects, Stakeholders, Setting Objectives, Business Case, Project Success and Failure, Management and Management Control, Project Management life cycle, Traditional versus Modern Project Management Practices. Project Evaluation: Evaluation of Individual projects, Cost–benefit Evaluation Techniques, Risk Evaluation

Module 5 : Software Quality

Software Quality: Introduction, The place of software quality in project planning, Importance of software quality, Defining software quality, Software quality models, product versus process quality management.
Software Project Estimation: Observations on Estimation, Decomposition Techniques, Empirical Estimation Models.

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