Managing the Software Development LifeCycle • Salt Lake City, UT

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Course Overview

Benefits

• Learn the history and predominant influencers of the software development industry
• Learn the different software life-cycles and when each one is most applicable
• Learn to manage the software development process effectively
• Learn how to compose project documentation (Project Charter, HLA, SRS, SDD, etc.)
• Learn the fundamentals of documenting project requirements
• Learn how to manage the approval process effectively including dealing with 'approval noise'
• Learn how to communicate and work effectively with all stakeholders in a project
• Learn how to manage stakeholders expectations effectively
• Learn how to document and report on daily project progress
• Learn how to manage multiple project requests from various sources
• Learn how to manage teams of people effectively building credibility, trust, buy-in, and morale
• Learn effective hiring and staffing strategies
• Learn how to measure your team's Productivity Index and compare it with others in the industry
• Learn how to work effectively with peers
• Learn how to work effectively with your product marketing team
• Learn quality system fundamentals
• Review the 25 most dangerous security errors
• Learn about large-scale architectures, load-balancing, and data-warehousing
• Discuss practices that improve the success rate of off-shore development projects

Managing the Software Development LifeCycle (SDLC) Course Overview

Our course contains the following program:

Part I - The Business Side of Software

• The history of software development
• The Software Industry
• Software Project success factors
• Software revenue trends
• Industry organizations you should know about

Part II - A Collection of Software Lifecycles

• Code and go (fix)
• Traditional waterfall
• V-Shaped
• Incremental staged-delivery
• Iterative evolutionary-delivery
• Prototype evolutionary
• Prototype throw-away
• Spiral
• Agile
• Kanban

Part III - Starting a Software Project

• Project Management meets the SDLC
• The phases of a software project
• Inputs and outputs for each phase
• Indstry trends for time spent at each phase
• Typical software project documentation
• How much documentation do we need?
• The project Concept Phase
• The project Initiation Phase
• The Project Charter (PCH)
• S.M.A.R.T. Goals
• The law of triple constraints
• Product Roadmap
• The High Level Analysis (HLA)
• Forecasting a software projects size and schedule and cost
• The effects of schedule compression on effort and cost
• Approving the Project Charter
• The Project Planning Phase
• The Project Plan (PLN)
• Software Requirement Specification (SRS)
• System Design Description (SDD)

Part IV - The Requirements Management Process

• Pre-Requirements Baseline activities
• Your organizations requirements aptitude
• A Requirements Hierarchy
  a. Governing
  b. Emergent
  c. Component
• A Requirements Baseline
• Managing Scope Creep
• Creating the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Software risk management
• The Execution Plan
• Approving the Project Plan

Part V - Completing the Software Project

• The Project Execute, Monitor & Control phases
• The project heartbeat
• Rolling Wave Planning
• Managing Project Efficiency
  a. Optimal team sizes
  b. Resource Efficiency Tracking
  c. Diseconomies of Scale
  d. Project Status Reporting
• Managing Project Quality
  a. Quality Debt
  b. Cost of correcting a failure over time
  c. Verification vs. Validation
  d. Requirements Traceability
  e. Measuring software testing efficiency per phase
  f. Measuring remaining defects in tested code
  g. User acceptance testing
• Project Release & Stabilization Phase
• Preparing the Release Package
• Project Closeout Phase
• The Project Closeout Checklist
• Project Closeout & Retrospective
• End of Project Metrics

Part VI - Managing Up

• Your responsibility
• Department transparency
• Project status charts
  a. Gantt Charts
  b. Milestone Charts
  c. Burn Charts
  d. Earned Value Charts
  e. Semaphoric Indicators
• Department Process Productivity Index (Putnam)
• IT Portfolio Management
• Project Request Document (PRD)
• Six ways to evaluate a business opportunity
• Managing Expectations Upwards
• Delivering unexpected news

Part VII - Managing Down

• Your responsibility as a manager
• Informing your teams
• Management styles
• Establishing creditability
• Engendering trust
• Providing Direction
• Achieving team buy-in
• Improving team morale
• McGregors Motivation Theory X and Theory Y
• Team feedback
• Individuality accountability
• Hiring technical employees
• Staffing principles

Part IIX - Managing Sideways

• Be the Facilitator
• Improving Peer Interactions
• Working effectively with Marketing
• Working effectively with Network Support
• Working effectively with the Help Desk

Part IX - Managing the Environment

• Visible Management
• Quality Systems Management
  a. Process Improvement
  b. P.D.C.A.
  c. The Mighty Checklist
• Project Metrics
• Service Metrics
• What not to measure
• Political Science 101 – Be Prepared!

Part X - Enterprise Fixtures

• Configuration Management
  a. Enterprise Asset Library
  b. Business Rules Repository
  c. Component Showcase
  d. Requirements Showcase
• Storage Area Networks (SAN's)
• Load Balancing Techniques
• Enterprise Architecture Patterns
  a. Mainframe Host
  b. Client-Server
  c. Model-View-Controller ( MVC)
  d. N-Tier Designs
  e. Object Relational Mapper (ORM)
  f. Software as a Service (SaaS)
  g. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Database architecture
• Enterprise Data Warehousing
• Eight types of Virtualization
• Offshore outsourcing fundamentals for success
• Top 25 Enterprise Information Security Issues

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