The management of a Software Development project is full of uncertainty and complexity. Software Development has enormous elements of creativity and innovation and predicting the outcome of such a project in full is therefore very difficult. In addition, the relationship between the Software Development project manager and the project participants is characterized by an asymmetric distribution of knowledge where individual developers know a lot more about the potential ânegative and positive â of their software development contributions than the project manager does.
Given these and other inherent difficulties of managing a Software Development project, answer the following:
1. What kind of guidance may a Software project manager get from existing project management literature?
2. What kinds of changes or additions are needed to build a project management model for Software Development Projects?
3. In dealing with these the above questions, outline some of the basic tools and assumptions of existing project management theory and compare them to conditions in Software Development Projects.