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4P's of SPM

The 4P's of software project management are the People, Product, Process, and Project. The People involved include senior managers who define business issues, project managers who plan and control the work, practitioners who do the technical work, customers who specify requirements, and end users. The Product objectives and scope must be established, along with technical and management constraints, before planning begins. The Process involves selecting an appropriate model for development, such as waterfall, iterative waterfall, prototyping, evolutionary, RAD, or spiral. The Project requires understanding what can go wrong to avoid problems and doing it right through a series of accurate decisions.

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4P's of SPM

The 4P's of software project management are the People, Product, Process, and Project. The People involved include senior managers who define business issues, project managers who plan and control the work, practitioners who do the technical work, customers who specify requirements, and end users. The Product objectives and scope must be established, along with technical and management constraints, before planning begins. The Process involves selecting an appropriate model for development, such as waterfall, iterative waterfall, prototyping, evolutionary, RAD, or spiral. The Project requires understanding what can go wrong to avoid problems and doing it right through a series of accurate decisions.

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4Ps of SPM:

The effective software project management focuses on four P's.


The People
The Product
The Process
The Project
The People
The following categories of people are involved in the software process.
Senior Managers
Project Managers
Practitioners
Customers
End Users
Senior Managers define the business issue. Project Managers plan, motivate, Organize and control the
practitioners who do the Software work. Practitioners deliver the technical skills that are necessary
to engineer a product or application. Customer specifies the requirements for the software to be
developed. End Users interact with the software once it is released.

The Product
Before a software project is planned, the product objectives and scope should be established,
technical and management constraints should be identified. Without this information it is
impossible to define a reasonable cost, amount of risk involved, the project schedule etc. A
software project scope must be unambiguous and understandable at the management and
technical levels. To develop a reasonable project plan we have to functionally decompose the
problem to be solved.

The Process
Here the important thing is to select an appropriate process model to develop the software.
There are different process models available. They are Water fall model, Iterative water fall model,
Prototyping model, Evolutionary model, AD(Rapid Application Development) model, Spiral model. In
practice we may use any one of the above models or a combination of the above models.

The Project
In order to manage a successful software project, we must understand what can go wrong (so that
problems can be Avoided)and how to do it right. A project is a series of steps where we need to
make accurate decision so as to make a successful project.

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