Software Project Management Plan

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This was a huge effort by our group of 8 graduate students including me in the Graduate level Software Project Management course during the first semester at George Mason University. We were given a case study which comprehended the allocation of budget, resources and a time frame given which we were supposed to come up with a project idea and develop a SPMP (Software Project Management Plan) which must conform to the given resources and details.
The whole project was divided into eight phases (or eight deliverables for us). We delivered each phase after every two weeks almost. And compiled the whole document to formulate the complete Project Management Plan for a Patient Management and Tracking System.
Following is just a major outline of the Plan:
  1. Introduction
  2. Deliverables
  3. Definition of Process Model, Organization Structure and Responsibilities
  4. Identification of Constraints and Dependencies
  5. Risk Management Plan
  6. Staffing Plan
  7. Technical Process defining Methods, Tools, Standard Policies and the Phases of SDLC
  8. Documentation Process
  9. Project Support Functions
  10. Work Packages
  11. Scheduling
  12. Budgeting and Resource Allocation
    etc.
You can access the PDF version of the plan by clicking Software Project Management Plan.

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