Project management including planning, progress measurement, estimation, and risk assessment. Functional and non-functional requirements. Software licenses, contracts and intellectual property.
Karl R. Wurst
Worcester State University
Will be taught for the first time in Spring 2015.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Elicit, organize, prioritize, and validate functional and non-functional requirements using a variety of techniques, and negotiate among different stakeholders in order to agree on a set of requirements
- Draft and evaluate basic software licenses, contracts, and intellectual property agreements, while recognizing the necessity of involving legal expertise
- Develop a comprehensive project plan, measure project progress and productivity, estimate costs, manage risk and change for a significant development effort
- Apply management techniques to projects that follow agile methodologies, as well as methodologies involve larger-scale iterations or releases
- Apply analysis techniques such as needs analysis, goal analysis, and use case analysis