Project Scheduling and Tracking

Software Engineering

Comments on Lateness

What should we do when management demands that we make a deadline that is impossible?

Basic Principles
Software project scheduling is an activity that distributes estimated effort across the planned project duration by allocating the effort to specific software engineering tasks. Macroscopic schedule- identifies all major software engineering activities and the product functions to which they are applied.

basic principles guide software project scheduling:

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Example four software engineers ! "### $%&'year (but when placed in a team ) potential communication paths (assume the team productivity *"# $%&'year +herefore, team productivity is( *#,###--*"#.)/012,"## $%&'year! 3."4

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#mpirical 'elationship
E = L3/( P3t4 ) where E =effort expended(person-years) t = time duration in years

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