Project Management

Formal Methods

How do you monitor a project?

Starting a project

A defined timescale

An approved budget

Quantified resources

Appropriate Skills

Managing a project

• Agreed deliverables

• Milestones

• Sign off to proceed

Project Documents

Resource People, Buildings, Skills, Equipment

Financial Budget for each step, Contingency

Quality Requirements and standards for each step

Risk How to minimize, how to deal with

Project Management Software

Like a spreadsheet for projects Track Task progress Task Dependency Resource usage

Gantt Charts

As Generated by “Microsoft Project” Visual representation of project

Projects have dependencies

Need to build the roof?

Cannot be done till the walls are up

Roof construction is DEPENDENT on wall

construction

Software Project Dependencies

• Programming cannot be done before analysis

• Testing cannot be done before the programming

• Installation cannot be done before testing

Critical Path analysis

“the sequence of stages determining the minimum time needed for a complex operation”. Oxford English Dictionary

AKA: What is that MUST be done before the next phase starts

You cannot do beta testing till at least the programming has started