Software Project Management ->Artifact set(spm)

1. Software Project Management

2.  What is Artifact?
 Artifact Sets.
› Management Sets.
 Specific Artifacts in the Management Set.
› Engineering Sets.
 Requirement Sets.
 Design Sets.
 Implementation Sets.
 Deployment Sets.
 Life Cycle Focus on artifact Sets.

3.  The term artifact in connection with
software development is largely
associated with specific development
methods or processes(such as project
plans, business cases, and risk
assessments.)
 To make the development of a
complete software system manageable,
distinct collection of information are
organized into artifact set.

4.  Artifacts are organized into two sets
 Management set:
 Planning and execution artifacts.
 Engineering set:
 Have different qualities and representations
Requirements set Design set
Implementation set Deployment set.
 A set represents a complete aspect of the
system.
 An artifact represents some cohesive
information typically developed and
reviewed as a single entity
› e.g. prototype, use case model, design model

5.  These artifacts are mainly designed to
capture data associated with process
planning and execution.
 Text and graphics will include whatever is
necessary to capture the contracts among
the project personnel (project
management,architects,developers,testers), among
stakeholders(funding authority,user,software project
manager,oraganization manager), and between
project personnel and stakeholders.

6.  The management set includes several
artifacts :
› Work Breakdown Structure:
 Vehicle for budgeting and collecting costs.
 The software project manager must have insight
into project costs and how they are expended.
 If the WBS is structured improperly, it can drive
the evolving design in the wrong direction.
› Business Case:
 Provides all the information necessary to determine
whether the project is worth investing in.
 It details the expected revenue, expected cost,
technical and management plans.

7. › Software Development Plan:
 The defining document for the project’s
process.
 It must comply with the contract, comply with
the organization standards, evolve along with
the design and requirements.
› Deployment:
 It include several document subsets for
transitioning the product into operational
status.
 It could also include computer system
operations manuals, software installation
manuals, plans and procedures for cutover

8. › Environment:
 A robust(strong) development environment
must support automation of the development
process.
 It should include :
 requirements management
 visual modeling
 document automation
 automated regression testing .

9.  In the Engineering Set, the primary
mechanism for evaluating the
evolving quality of these artifact sets is
in the transitioning of information from
set to set.
 It consist of:
› requirement set
› design set
› implementation set
› deployment set

10.  The requirements set is the primary
engineering context for evaluating the
other three engineering artifact sets and is
the basis for test cases.
 Vision Statement:
› Notation: text structure is used.
› Documents project scope that supports the
contract between the funding authority and the
project team.

11.  Supplementary Specifications:
› Notation: Variety of formats
› Can come from regulatory agencies, other
prototypes indicating proof of concept.
 Requirements models:
› Notation: Usually captured in UML
› Use Case modeling and domain modeling;
activity diagrams.

12.  Tools used: Visually modeling tools.
 UML notation is used to engineer the design
model.
 Design set contains levels of abstraction.
 The design model include structural and
behavioral information to ascertain bill of
material(quantity and specifications of material, labor
and other cost).
 Design set artifacts normally include: design
model, test model, software architecture

13.  Tools used: Debuggers, compilers, code
analyzers, test management tools.
 Implementation set artifacts includes
source code (as implementation of
components) their form, interfaces and
executables necessary for stand-alone
testing of components.
› These executables are the primitive parts needed
to construct the end products including custom
components, application programming
interface(APIs), other reusable or legacy
components in some programming languages.

14.  Tools used: Test coverage and test
automation tools, network management
tools, commercial components (OS, GUI,
DBMSs, middleware, installation tools, etc.)
 Deployment set artifacts normally include
the machine language notations,
executable software, build scripts,
installation scripts, and executable target
specific data necessary to use the
product in its target environment.

15.  Management artifact evolve at a
constant level across the life cycle.
 Requirements are the focus on the
inception phase.
 Design focus on the elaboration
phase.
 Implementation focus on the
construction phase.
 Deployment focus on transition
phase.

16. Software Project Management.
A Unified Framework
By: Walker Royce