Software Project Management - Syllabus

Overview of E-commerce and its significance in the digital age.

Understanding the differences between E-business and E-commerce.

Key characteristics and benefits of E-commerce.

Types of E-commerce models and their applications.

Evolution and development of E-commerce over time.

Understanding the components of E-commerce framework including People, Public Policy, Marketing and Advertisement, Support Services, and Business Partnerships.

Overview of different types of E-commerce including B2C, B2B, C2B, C2C, M-Commerce, U-commerce, Social-Ecommerce, and Local E-commerce.

Common obstacles and difficulties faced in E-commerce.

This topic covers various project management techniques used to plan, organize, and control projects. It includes developing project management plans and implementing, monitoring, and controlling projects.

This topic focuses on creating an environment that fosters collaboration and teamwork. It includes communications planning, organizing and conducting effective meetings, and other collaborative development strategies.

Methods of communication between processes, including race conditions and critical sections.

Techniques for achieving mutual exclusion, including busy waiting, sleep and wakeup, semaphores, monitors, and message passing.

Solutions to classic inter-process communication problems, including producer-consumer, sleeping barber, and dining philosopher problems.

Goals and techniques for scheduling processes, including batch, interactive, and real-time systems.

This topic covers deadlock prevention techniques, which ensure that deadlocks cannot occur by preventing one of the necessary conditions for deadlock.

This topic discusses deadlock avoidance techniques, which ensure that the system will never enter a deadlock state.

This topic explains deadlock detection algorithms, which are used to detect when a deadlock has occurred in a system.

This topic covers recovery techniques for deadlocks, including preemption and rollback.

Evaluating and comparing multiple project alternatives.

This topic covers the definition, features, and characteristics of non-profit organizations, including their purpose, structure, and operations.

This topic explores the accounting procedures specific to non-profit organizations, including the preparation of financial statements.

This topic explains the purpose and preparation of the Receipt and Payment Account, a financial statement unique to non-profit organizations.

This topic covers the preparation and analysis of the Income and Expenditure Account, a key financial statement for non-profit organizations.

This topic explains the preparation and interpretation of the Balance Sheet for non-profit organizations, highlighting its unique features and requirements.

This topic explains the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT), a network planning method used to plan, organize, and coordinate tasks in a project.

This topic covers the Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM), a network planning technique used to create a visual representation of task dependencies and relationships.

This topic discusses strategies and techniques for shortening project duration, including crashing, fast tracking, and resource reallocation.

This topic explains the importance of identifying critical activities in a project and how to determine which tasks are critical to the project's overall success.

Overview of risk management in software project management, importance and objectives.

Understanding the nature of risk, types of risks, and risk characteristics.

Techniques and methods for identifying risks in software projects.

Qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, risk assessment, and prioritization.

Using Z-values to evaluate the impact of risks on project schedules.

Learn how to design relational databases using ER-to-relational mapping, including mapping of regular entities, weak entities, relationship types, multivalued attributes, and N-ary relationships.

Understand informal design guidelines for relational schemas, including semantics of attributes in relations, redundant information in tuples and update anomalies, NULL values in tuples, and generation of spurious tuples.

Study functional dependencies, including definition, inference rules, Armstrong's axioms, attribute closure, equivalence of functional dependencies, and minimal sets of functional dependencies.

Explore normal forms based on primary keys, including First Normal Form, Second Normal Form, Third Normal Form, and their general definitions.

Overview of E-Governance models and their significance in digital governance.

A model of E-Governance that focuses on disseminating information to citizens through various channels.

A model that emphasizes the critical flow of information and services between government and citizens.

A model that involves comparative analysis of different E-Governance initiatives and their outcomes.

A model that focuses on mobilizing citizens and lobbying for their rights through E-Governance initiatives.

A model that enables interactive services between government, citizens, and other stakeholders.

This topic covers the sources of errors in numerical calculations, propagation of errors, and a review of Taylor's Theorem.

This topic explains the trial and error method for solving non-linear equations, including its convergence.

This topic covers the half-interval method for solving non-linear equations, including its convergence.

This topic explains Newton's method for solving non-linear equations, including its convergence and application to calculating multiple roots.

This topic covers the secant method for solving non-linear equations, including its convergence.

This topic explains the fixed point iteration method for solving non-linear equations, including its convergence.

This topic covers Horner's method for solving non-linear equations.

Methods for solving systems of ODEs, including numerical and analytical approaches.

Methods for solving higher order ODEs, including reduction of order and numerical methods.

Introduction to boundary value problems, including their definition and importance in ODEs.

This topic covers the sources of errors in numerical calculations, propagation of errors, and a review of Taylor's Theorem.

This topic explains the trial and error method for solving non-linear equations, including its convergence.

This topic covers the half-interval method for solving non-linear equations, including its convergence.

This topic explains Newton's method for solving non-linear equations, including its convergence and application to calculating multiple roots.

This topic covers the secant method for solving non-linear equations, including its convergence.

This topic explains the fixed point iteration method for solving non-linear equations, including its convergence.