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Video Title: Need of Software Project Management
Description: Need of Software Project Management
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Lecture By: Mr. Arnab Chakraborty, Tutorials Point India Private Limited
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Need of software project management.

So, question is coming in mind,
what is a project management?

The project management means the
application of skills, tools, techniques,

experiences, knowledges to different
activities of a project to achieve the

objective of the project.

And that is known as a project management.

In one book I read one very funny
statement that a project without project

management is bound
to fail, but a project

with project management
may or may not fail.

Because we know that if we do not have the
proper tools, techniques, skills,

knowledge, experience on the very
respective domain, then there is no

project management.

So, that means
Since the project is bound to fail, the

project cannot get
completed within the stipulated time frame.

But another thing is that whenever we are
having sufficient project management,

but the project may also fail in those
cases whenever we are not keeping the

project in the proper monitoring and
control.

So, whenever we do the project scheduling,
whenever we do the project budgeting,

whenever we do the project planning that
is at the beginning of the project.

But when the project will be in operation,
we should keep our project in the constant

monitoring So, that we can check whether
the project progress is in accordance with

whatever we planned earlier.

So, that is why a project with project
management may or may not fail.

So, that is very striking one.

So, now let us go for
the software project

management
and need of software project management.

Software is said to be an intangible
product, you cannot touch and fill.

And software development is a kind of all
new stream in world business and there is

very little experience in building
software products.

And most software products are tailor made
to fit the client's requirements and

according to the client's requirement we
are supposed to develop the software.

The most important is that the underlying
technology changes and advances so

frequently and rapidly
that the experience of

one product may not
be applied to other one.

The technology is changing very rapidly.

So, as a result of that, whatever the
experience we gathered from one technology

based software development may not be
applied on to the other.

So, all such business
and environmental

constraints bring risk
in software development.

Hence, it is essential to manage software
projects efficiently with the proper

monitoring and control and with the proper
project management.

So, now here we are considering the triple
constraint theory.

So, here we are having this time,
cost and quality.

We are supposed to develop the project
within the time frame.

So, there is a time constraint.

We are supposed to develop the project
within the budget.

That is the cost constraint.

And we are supposed to implement all the
features Because in accordance with the

client's requirement and expectation,
so that is the quality of the project.

So, that means the quality of the project
means the expectations, the requirements

whatever we gathered at the earlier stage
must have got implemented.

The software should be reliable,
the software should be safe, the software

should be secured, the software should be
user friendly, the

software should
be well versed with the current technology.

So, that That is the quality.

So, there is a time, there is a deadline,
there is a cost, there is a budget.

So, it is very difficult to implement the
good quality software within the time

frame within the budget.

You can find that this particular time or
the deadline you are missing.

So, that is why you may have to deploy
multiple additional resources to get the

quality software, but in that case you are
missing the budget deadline.

So, that is why maintaining all these
three is a challenging one.

That is why it is called triple constraint
theorem.

So the image above shows the triple
constraint for software projects.

It is an essential part of the software
organization to deliver quality product,

keeping the cost
within the client's budget constraint and

deliver the product as but the schedule
or the deadline.

There are several factors, both internal
and external,

which may
impact this triple constraint triangle.

Any of the three factors can severely
impact the other two.

So, whatever you have discussed is the
triple constraint theorem and we have

discussed why, what is the need of having
software project management in our

software development.

So, thanks for watching this video.