Lec 1 • Software Development and Project Management

Basic Information
Course Code:	CSE473
Course Title:	Software Development and Project Management
Course Credits:	3 Credits
Class Hours:	3 Hours/week
Prerequisite Course:	CSE345: Information System Design & Software Engineering
Course Offering Department:	Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Faculty Information
Faculty:	Asaduzzaman Noor Technical Lead, Office of IT Assistant Professor, Department of CSE Southeast University
Faculty Initials:	NOOR
Contact Information:	Email: noor@seu.edu.bd Phone: +8801747942611
Office Information:	Room # 108, 1^st Floor Office of IT, Southeast University 252, Tejgaon I/A, Dhaka - 1208.

Course Schedule
Course Code	Section	Day	Time	Room
CSE473	4	SUN & TUE	04:30 PM - 05:50 PM	SEU613
CSE474	5	WED	04:30 PM - 06:30 PM	SEU613

Consultancy Hour
Day	Time	Duration	Room
MON & WED	03:00 PM - 04:20 PM	1 hr 20 min	SEU108
THU	04:00 PM - 05:30 PM	1 hr 30 min	SEU108

Routine of the Faculty
Week	03:00	03:30	04:00	04:20	04:30	05:00	05:30	05:50	06:0006:30
Sunday	CSE281.8 [SEU613]				CSE473.4 [SEU613]
Monday	Consultancy Hour [SEU108]				CSE282.11 [SEU613]
Tuesday	CSE281.8 [SEU613]				CSE473.4 [SEU613]
Wednesday	Consultancy Hour [SEU108]				CSE474.5 [SEU613]
Thursday			Consultancy Hour [SEU108]
Friday
Saturday

Course Details
Importance of the Course:	The course Software Development and Project Management is of vital importance for students of Computer Science and Engineering, as it bridges the gap between technical software development skills and strategic project management practices. In today’s rapidly evolving software industry, engineers are not only expected to write efficient code but also to manage time, cost, risk, and human resources effectively. This course enables students to understand the complete lifecycle of software projects from conception to closure, emphasizing both technical and managerial perspectives. Through real-world case studies and project-based learning, students gain insight into planning, scheduling, budgeting, and monitoring software projects, equipping them with essential skills to become competent project managers, team leaders, or software engineers capable of delivering quality solutions within scope and constraints.
Objective:	The primary objectives of this course are to provide students with a comprehensive foundation in project management principles and their practical applications within the software development domain. It aims to develop the ability to plan, execute, monitor, and close software projects using modern tools, models, and standards such as PMBoK, Gantt charts, and PERT/CPM techniques. The course emphasizes the importance of cost estimation, scheduling, quality assurance, configuration management, and risk mitigation throughout the project lifecycle. Additionally, students will learn how to apply leadership, communication, and decision-making skills to manage diverse software teams and stakeholders effectively. By the end of the course, learners will be capable of applying structured management methodologies to ensure successful software project delivery that meets technical, economic, and organizational objectives.

Course Details

Importance of the Course:

The course Software Development and Project Management is of vital importance for students of Computer Science and Engineering, as it bridges the gap between technical software development skills and strategic project management practices. In today’s rapidly evolving software industry, engineers are not only expected to write efficient code but also to manage time, cost, risk, and human resources effectively. This course enables students to understand the complete lifecycle of software projects from conception to closure, emphasizing both technical and managerial perspectives. Through real-world case studies and project-based learning, students gain insight into planning, scheduling, budgeting, and monitoring software projects, equipping them with essential skills to become competent project managers, team leaders, or software engineers capable of delivering quality solutions within scope and constraints.

Objective:

The primary objectives of this course are to provide students with a comprehensive foundation in project management principles and their practical applications within the software development domain. It aims to develop the ability to plan, execute, monitor, and close software projects using modern tools, models, and standards such as PMBoK, Gantt charts, and PERT/CPM techniques. The course emphasizes the importance of cost estimation, scheduling, quality assurance, configuration management, and risk mitigation throughout the project lifecycle. Additionally, students will learn how to apply leadership, communication, and decision-making skills to manage diverse software teams and stakeholders effectively. By the end of the course, learners will be capable of applying structured management methodologies to ensure successful software project delivery that meets technical, economic, and organizational objectives.

Course Outcomes (COs) At the end of the course, the students will be able to:
COs	Description	POs	Bloom’s Taxonomy Domain	BNQF Learning Domain	Delivery Methods and Activities	Assessment Tools
CO1	Explain various software projects and understand the roles and responsibilities of a project manager.	PO1	C2	FS1, FS2	Lectures Active Discussion Group Discussion Presentation	Midterm Exam Final Exam Assignment Presentation Quiz
CO2	Prepare project plans, schedules, and budgets based on specific requirements and constraints.	PO2	C3	FS2, FS3, FS6	Lectures Active Discussion Group Discussion Demonstrating Examples Presentation Solving Logical Problems	Midterm Exam Final Exam Assignment Presentation Quiz
CO3	Develop appropriate management styles and strategies to successfully complete a project.	PO3	C4	FS4, TS1, SS1	Lectures Group Discussions Case Studies Interactive Presentations Project-Based Learning	Midterm Exam Final Exam Assignment Presentation Quiz

Course Outcomes (COs) and Program Outcomes (POs) Mapping
CO	PO1	PO2	PO3	PO4	PO5	PO6	PO7	PO8	PO9	PO10	PO11	PO12
CO1	✔
CO2		✔
CO3			✔

Lecture Materials
Lecture Notes:	As provided during class & Google Classroom
Text Book:	A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), 6th Edition by Project Management Institute Inc. Fundamentals of Management: An Unprecedented Integration between Textbook, Online, 7th Canadian Edition by Stephen P. Robbins, David A. DeCenzo, Mary Coulter, Ian Anderson
Online Resources:	As provided during class & Google Classroom

Tentative Lecture Plan
Class	Lecture No.	Contents	Learning Outcome	Learning Resources
01 Week 01	Lecture 01	Course introduction: outline, CO/PO, assessment, theory-lab relation CAPM overview: four domains, exam format Project vs operations; project, program, portfolio Project life cycle; predictive vs adaptive Issue, risk, assumption, constraint Management functions, roles, skills; PM profession and job market; People, Process, Product, Technology PMI Code of Ethics AI-era project work: usage policy, finding errors in an AI-made plan CAPM baseline quiz (ungraded)	Students will explain what a project is, how it differs from operations, programs and portfolios, and the roles and skills of a manager, and will state the rules for using AI in the course.	Course Outline Lecture Slide Hands-on Workshop (job-ad analysis, card sort) Discussion
02 Week 01	Lecture 02	Project initiation, business case, benefit planning Project charter vs scope statement Stakeholder identification, register, power/interest grid Sponsor vs project manager; PM roles; leadership vs management; emotional intelligence AI-drafted charter and critique	Students will prepare a project charter and stakeholder register and explain the responsibilities of the project manager and the sponsor.	Lecture Slide Hands-on Workshop (charter writing, peer critique) Discussion
03 Week 02	Lecture 03	Risk vs issue; threats and opportunities Risk management plan; identification by brainstorming and checklists Risk table, probability-impact matrix, risk register Responses: avoid, transfer, mitigate, accept, escalate; RMMM plan, risk information sheet Change control: change request, impact analysis, CCB, change log AI-assisted risk brainstorming	Students will prepare a risk register with responses and explain how project changes are evaluated and approved.	Lecture Slide Hands-on Workshop (risk wall, CCB role-play) Discussion
04 Week 02	Quiz 1 and Practice	Quiz 1 (Lecture 01-03) Answer review: why each wrong option is wrong How to read a CAPM scenario question Group scenario competition: roles, risks, stakeholders Assignment 1 briefing: failed software project case analysis	Students will answer scenario questions on project fundamentals and justify the best answer.	Quiz CAPM Practice Set Discussion
05 Week 03	Lecture 04	Project management plan: cost, quality, risk, schedule plans; project vs product management plan Requirements to scope statement to WBS; work packages, WBS dictionary Activities, milestones vs durations, dependencies (FS, SS, FF, SF), lead and lag Network diagram: parts and common errors Resource types and numbers	Students will decompose scope into a WBS and sequence activities into a network diagram.	Lecture Slide Hands-on Workshop (sticky-note WBS and network) Spreadsheet Template
06 Week 03	Lecture 05	Critical path method: forward and backward pass, float PERT three-point estimate, variance, probability Gantt chart construction Schedule compression: crashing, fast-tracking Schedule tracking, schedule variance Tools: MS Project or ProjectLibre/GanttProject	Students will compute the critical path and float, estimate durations with PERT and build a Gantt chart.	Lecture Slide Hands-on Workshop Spreadsheet Template Tool Session
07 Week 04	Lecture 06	Cost estimating: analogous, parametric, bottom-up, three-point COCOMO: basic, intermediate, complete Cost baseline, contingency and management reserve Resource leveling across projects Critical chain scheduling Project views in MS Project	Students will estimate effort and cost with COCOMO, build a cost baseline and level resources.	Lecture Slide Hands-on Workshop Spreadsheet Template (COCOMO) Tool Session
08 Week 04	Quiz 2 and Practice	Quiz 2 (Lecture 04-06) CPM, PERT and COCOMO problem set AI estimate vs human estimate comparison Answer review	Students will solve schedule and cost problems and explain the results.	Quiz CAPM Practice Set Problem Solving
09 Week 05	Lecture 07	Life cycle models: Waterfall, Iterative, Spiral; when to use each Predictive vs adaptive; suitability and organizational structures (matrix, virtual, colocated) Agile principles; Scrum roles, events, artifacts; XP; Kanban; SAFe overview; DevOps Matching life cycles to projects Iteration planning: WBS to backlog, prioritization, adaptive tracking	Students will select and justify a life cycle for a project and plan iterations.	Lecture Slide Hands-on Workshop (scenario cards, 20-minute Scrum sprint, Kanban WIP exercise) Discussion
10 Week 05	Practice 1: Selection Studio	Time value of money, present value NPV, ROI, payback Weighted scoring model Budgeting and cost aggregation Ranking three candidate projects and justifying the choice CAPM scenario questions (Domain I-III)	Students will evaluate and rank project proposals using NPV, ROI and weighted scoring.	Hands-on Workshop Spreadsheet Template CAPM Practice Set
11 Week 06	Lecture 08	Business analysis roles: process owner, product manager, product owner Stakeholder communication channels Requirements: functional, non-functional, user, system Elicitation: interviews, surveys, workshops User stories, use cases Requirements traceability matrix Product backlog, roadmap, acceptance criteria	Students will gather requirements and document them as user stories with a traceability matrix.	Lecture Slide Hands-on Workshop (interview role-play) Discussion
12 Week 06	Practice 2: Midterm Review	Mixed CAPM scenario set (Domain I-IV) Calculation review Common mistakes Timed mock midterm	Students will apply Class 01-11 concepts to mixed scenarios under time limits.	CAPM Practice Set Discussion
Midterm Examination
13 Week 08	Lecture 09	Configuration management: identification, version control, change control, status accounting, audit Baselines and releases Configuration item inventory CCB simulation (Git practice in lab)	Students will define configuration items and baselines and run a change-control process.	Lecture Slide Hands-on Workshop Discussion
14 Week 08	Lecture 10	Team models: controlled centralized, controlled decentralized, democratic decentralized Management styles, motivation, conflict resolution AI-assisted development: benefits, risks, review rules, licence, security Software metrics: source code, maintenance, testing; Halstead; maturity index Language and tool selection	Students will select a team model and management style, evaluate AI-assisted work and compute basic software metrics.	Lecture Slide Hands-on Workshop (decision game, Halstead exercise) Spreadsheet Template
15 Week 09	Lecture 11	Quality management plan; verification vs validation; V-model, STLC Testing levels: unit, integration, system, acceptance; stubs and drivers Black-box: equivalence class, boundary value, domain, requirement-based White-box: statement, path, component; grey-box Acceptance criteria, UAT, delivery readiness	Students will design test cases with black-box and white-box techniques and judge delivery readiness.	Lecture Slide Hands-on Workshop (test lab, UAT role-play) Discussion
16 Week 09	Quiz 3 and Practice	Quiz 3 (Lecture 09-11) Testing studio part 2: path testing, test suite review AI-generated tests: review and limits Answer review	Students will review and improve a test suite.	Quiz CAPM Practice Set Hands-on Workshop
17 Week 10	Lecture 12	Environments: development, staging, production Release planning and approval gate CI/CD concepts, DevOps cycle Secrets and configuration management Deployment checklist (execution in lab)	Students will prepare a release plan and a deployment checklist.	Lecture Slide Hands-on Workshop Discussion
18 Week 10	Lecture 13	Cutover and data migration plan Blue-green and canary releases Rollback and recovery plans Monitoring and post-release support Project recovery: diagnosing a troubled project Documentation handover Management support and expectations	Students will plan a cutover with rollback and propose a recovery plan.	Lecture Slide Hands-on Workshop (cutover rehearsal, red-project case) Discussion
19 Week 11	Lecture 14	Project control: monitoring, performance measurement, corrective action Status reports and meetings Project metrics, DORA metrics Process improvement Stakeholder reporting	Students will write a status report and choose corrective actions from performance data.	Lecture Slide Hands-on Workshop Spreadsheet Template
20 Week 11	Lecture 15	Earned value analysis: PV, EV, AC; SV, CV, SPI, CPI Forecasting: EAC, ETC Reading project health Actual cost from timesheets EVM on the class mini-project	Students will calculate earned value measures and interpret project performance.	Lecture Slide Hands-on Workshop Spreadsheet Template
21 Week 12	Quiz 4 and Practice	Quiz 4 (Lecture 12-15) EVM and scenario problem set Answer review	Students will solve control and release scenarios.	Quiz CAPM Practice Set Problem Solving
22 Week 12	Lecture 16	Project closure: confirm deliverables, close contracts, release resources, archive Post-project review, lessons learned Success criteria and metrics Professional and AI ethics Retrospective and post-mortem workshop CAPM exam strategy	Students will close a project, run a retrospective and write a post-mortem.	Lecture Slide Hands-on Workshop Case Study
23 Week 13	Presentation and Practice 3	Case presentations: failed-project analysis and lessons Mixed all-domain CAPM set	Students will present a case analysis and defend their conclusions.	Presentation CAPM Practice Set
24 Week 13	Practice 4: Final Review	Timed all-domain CAPM-style mock Weak-domain review Final exam briefing	Students will assess their readiness across all domains.	CAPM Practice Set Discussion
Final Examination

Teaching and Learning Methods
Online Learning Management System (Google Classroom)
Lecture delivery in Physical Class
Lecture materials in Google Classroom
Discussion during class and counseling hours
Sample codes provided during physical class and via Google Classroom

Tentative Assessment Schedule
Serial	Assessment Type	Schedule
1.	Quiz 1	Week 02
2.	Assignment 1	Week 02 - Week 06
3.	Quiz 2	Week 04
4.	Midterm Examination	Week 07
5.	Quiz 3	Week 09
6.	Quiz 4	Week 12
7.	Presentation	Week 13
8.	Final Examination	Week 14

Tentative Weight of Assessment
Serial	Assessment	Percentage
1.	Class Attendance	10%
2.	Class Tests	15%
3.	Project / Assignment / Case Study	10%
4.	Viva / Presentation	05%
5.	Midterm Examination	25%
6.	Final Examination	35%
	Total	100%

Grading Policy
Scores	Grade	Grade Point	Interpretation
80 - 100	A+	4.00	Outstanding
75 - 79	A	3.75	Excellent
70 - 74	A-	3.50	Quite Excellent
65 - 69	B+	3.25	Very Good
60 - 64	B	3.00	Good
55 - 59	B-	2.75	Quite Good
50 - 54	C+	2.50	Above Average
45 - 49	C	2.25	Average
40 - 44	D	2.00	Poor
Less than 40	F	0.00	Fail
	I	-	Incomplete
	W	0.00	Withdraw

Aiding Materials for Learning
Internet Connectivity
SEU official email ID
Should know how to use “Google Meet” and “Google Classroom”

Class Expectations and Policies
Please do not use mobile phones when the lecture is ongoing.
Please maintain punctuality when arriving at class.
Please do not create disruptions or distract your classmates.
Please raise your hand before asking questions.
Please request permission before leaving the classroom while class is in session.

Faculty Suggestions
Students will not be allowed to sit in the Final exam if their attendance is less than 70% without any valid reason.
Students should enter the class on time.
If you have any difficulty with understanding, I suggest you not hesitate to ask questions in the class.
Taking notes is important: Please take your own notes during the lecture.
Don’t expect lecture slides and collect notes during class.
Participate in group discussions and problem-solving sessions to get diverse perspectives.
Study and practice each topic after it is finished in class.
Submit the assignments in Google Classroom in due time.
Plagiarism is strictly discouraged during the submission of assignments.
Check your email every day to have updates on classes and assessments.