Discipline: Project Management







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Discipline: Project Management















This Discipline focuses on project planning, risk management, monitoring progress, and metrics






Relationships



Reference Workflows


Project Management





Tasks


Acquire Staff


Assess Iteration


Conduct Review


Define Project Organization and Staffing


Develop Business Case


Develop Iteration Plan


Identify and Assess Risks


Initiate Iteration


Initiate Project


Iteration Evaluation Criteria Review


Iteration Plan Review


Organize Review


Plan Phases and Iterations


Project Approval Review


Project Planning Review


Report Status


Schedule and Assign Work






Main Description



Our goal with this section is to make the task easier by providing some context for Project Management. It is not a recipe for success, but it presents an approach to managing the project that will markedly improve the odds of delivering successful software. The purpose of Project Management is: To provide a framework for managing software-intensive projects. To provide practical guidelines for planning, staffing, executing, and monitoring projects. To provide a framework for managing risk. However, this discipline of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) does not attempt to cover all aspects of project management. For example, it does not cover issues such as: Managing people: hiring, training, coaching Managing budget: defining, allocating, and so forth Managing contracts, with suppliers and customers This discipline focuses mainly on the important aspects of an iterative development process: Risk management Planning an iterative project, through the lifecycle and for a particular iteration Monitoring progress of an iterative project, metrics The Project Management Discipline provides the framework whereby a project is created and managed. In doing so, all other disciplines are utilized as part of the project work: Requirement discipline Analysis & Design discipline Implementation discipline Test discipline Deployment discipline The Project Management Discipline is one of the supporting process disciplines, together with: Configuration & Change Management discipline Environment discipline Further Reading-the Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge It is not our intention in the RUP to present a complete tutorial on project management. We describe only that subset which is directly related to our approach to software development, and, of that subset, certain topics (as noted above) have been ruled out of scope, and are touched on only lightly, or omitted entirely. The project management approach described here has been influenced by the Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®), and the reader should consult that work for a complete coverage of generally accepted best practice in project management. It is available from www.pmi.org. The Project Management Institute (PMI®) is the leading nonprofit professional organization covering project management; it establishes project management standards and provides professional certification.



More Information



Concepts


Iteration


Organizational Context for the Rational Unified Process


Risk





Guidelines


Important Decisions in Project Management








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