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Video Title: Software Project Management
Description: Software Project Management
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Lecture By: Mr. Arnab Chakraborty, Tutorials Point India Private Limited
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Software Project Management, we are going
to discuss on this very aspect.

So, before going for the actual topic,
let me discuss what is a project.

A project is nothing but one temporary
endeavor and at the end of the project

execution, we are going to get one unique
product, service or result.

So, now what is the why should I call it
as temporary endeavor?

Because
each and every project must be having

a specific start date
and specific end date.

A project cannot go forever.

Whatever which is going to go forever is
not a project, that is a production.

So, at the end of the project,
we are going to have one unique service,

product or result.

Let us suppose, we are very much eager to
have our doctorate degree.

We are going for some research work.

So, we will be doing
that research for say 3

years of time, say
for say 4 years of time.

Then at the end of that, we are going to
get one new result that is a new innovation.

So that should be considered.

That means doing the doctorate,
going through this doctorate program

study, obviously that is nothing but a
project.

Because at the end, we are going to get
unique result.

Whenever we develop software, then
obviously, each and every software has got

different recommend list, different
client, that different might be the

platforms are distinct from one software
to another software.

So, as a result of that, as a software
architecture may differ, the requirements

are different,
the user interfaces are different, the

functional and
non-functional requirements are different.

So, each and every software is software
development The second sentence is a

project because at the end, we are going to
have a unique service or product or result.

In case of software development,
we are going to get a unique product.

So, in this way, let us suppose I am
going to give

you the lecture
on this software project management.

If I, if you ask me to take this
particular class, so, for multiple number

of times, each and every time,
I might be giving different sorts of

examples, different discussions,
I might be doing.

So, obviously, this class is a,
this class whatever I am taking on this

particular
software project management, well, there

each and every
time, I shall give you unique service.

So, that is known as a project.

So, a project will be a temporary
endeavour.

That means, it will have a certain start
date and end date.

And the project should
be ending up and landing

up with one unique
service product or result.

So, now, let us consider the software
project management.

So, the job pattern of an IT company
engaged in software development can be

seen, splitted into two parts.

So, what are the parts?

One is the software creation and the one
is the software project management.

A project is well-defined task,
which is a collection of several

operations done in order to achieve a
goal.

For an example, the software development
and the delivery, a project can have the,

can have the following
characteristics or can be characterised

as, every project
may have a unique and distinct goal.

Project is not a routine activity or
day-to-day operation.

If it is so, that means, it is a
production, it is not a project.

And project comes with a start and end
time.

Project ends when its goal is achieved.

Hence, hence, it is a temporary phase in
the lifetime of an organisation.

And next one is that project needs
adequate resources in terms of time,

manpower, finance, material and knowledge
bank.

So, here we are having
this respective project

management you can
discuss in this way.

Now, software project.

A software project is the complete
procedure of software development

development from requirement gathering to
the testing and maintenance and carried

out according to the execution
methodologies.

In a specified period of time to achieve
the intended software product.

Whenever we develop one software
for a specific

purpose, then
it would become a software product.

So, each and every software product will
be the outcome of a software project.

And required funding, budgeting and so on.

And in this way, within a stipulated time
frame, we are going to make one software

product ready with the help of software
project management.

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