Software Project Management - Old Questions

1. What is software project management? How software project differs from other projects?

We are greatful to  Manish Kumar Shah , Sushma Godwari College Itahari for answering this question

How Software Project is differs from others?

Many of the techniques of general Project Management are applicable to software Project management but (Fried Books) Pointed out that the Products of software Projects have certain characteristics that make them different

->One Way of perceiving software project management is as the process of making visible that which is invisible. Invisibility:- When a physical artefact such as a bridge or road is being constructed the progress being made can easily be seen .With Software progress is not immediately seen. This is invisibility in progress is software project means customer of software project can't see the outcome in middle of project, because customer's don't know about coding and other technical work and s we know an incomplete project will not give outcome. consequently it becomes very difficult to satisfy customers of software project that actually their work is being done by them. Complexity:- We can't measure complexity of software project until we actually work on it. Flexibility:- One good Point of Software Project is that, they are flexible. Customer only wants final result, so rest of things are in control of programmer, he can modify software at any stage. Conformity:-Software Project are based on logical work ,while other are passed on physical work. Software developers have to conform to the requirement of human clients.