Objectives:

$$ Learn how to Identify the activities and their related resources for a software project to developing the project schedule.

$$ Learn how to manage a time and cost for the selected software development project.

$$ Learn how to use the latest available tools for software project management such as projectLibre.

Assignments:

a$)$ Defining activities andmilestones : identifying the specific activities $($i$.$e$.,$ WBS $)$ that the project team members must perform to produce the project deliverables

b$)$ Sequencing activities: identifying the relationships $($i$.$e$.,$ dependencies$)$ between project activities and build Network diagrams.

c$)$ Estimating activity resources: estimating how many resources a project team should use to perform project activities

d$)$ Estimating activity durations: estimating the number of work periods that are needed to complete individual activity.

e$)$ Developing the schedule: use the activity sequences, activity resource estimates, and activity duration estimates to create the project schedule $($i$.$e$.,$Gantt charts$).$

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Part$2$

f$)$ Calculate the critical path for the project.

g$)$ Using critical path analysis to make the schedule trade$-$offs by calculating the early and Late start and finish dates

h$)$ Using the critical path to shorten a project schedule $($i$.$e$.,$ crashing$)$ and construct the project cost$$duration graph $($you can estimate any data you need in this step$).$

Note: use the project management software that you have chosen to generate reports contain the information produced from the above steps.