CS510: Software Management & Economics

Schedule
Date Speaker Lectures Presentation Readings Assignments
Monday
8/24
Boehm Course Overview, VBSE, SMB-0 Case Study EC-0 BB 9-5, EP-1
Wednesday
8/26
Boehm VBSE and the Incremental Commitment Model EC-1 EP-2, EP-3
Friday
8/28
Boehm VBSE II: Motivation and Key Practices EC-2 BB 9-2, BB 9-3, EP-15, EP-20 Homework 1: SMB-0: Win-Lose Situations
Monday
8/31
Boehm VBSE III: Case Study and VB Control EC-3
Wednesday
9/02
Boehm Balancing Agility and Discipline EC-21 BA&D Ch.1, 2, 4 Homework 2: SMB Business Case: Increased Demand
Friday
9/04
Boehm Software Risk Management and COCOMO™ EC-4 BB 5-1, CII Ch.1, 2
Monday
9/07
LABOR DAY: NO CLASS
Wednesday
9/09
Madachy COCOMO™II Tutorial, Case Study EC-7 CII Ch.3, Appendix A
Friday
9/11
Boehm Using COCOMO™II for Software Decisions EC-8 CII Ch.2, 6 Homework 3: Lease Management Case Study Analysis
Monday
9/14
Boehm Business Case Analysis EC-10 EP-5, 6
Wednesday
9/16
Boehm Agile Management & Economics EC-21 BA&D Ch.5, 6
Friday
9/18
Madachy COCOMO™ Suite EC-9 CII Ch.5 Homework 4: Cost Analysis I
Monday
9/21
Boehm People and Values EC-5 BB 7-1, BB 7-2, EP-4
Wednesday
9/23
Boehm History of Software Engineering EC-29 BB 8-4, BB 4-2, BB 10 Homework 5: Business Case Analysis
Friday
9/25
Madachy COCOMO™ Suite EC-6,7,9 CII Ch.5
Monday
9/28
Boehm Software Cost Estimation & Management EC-38 CII Ch.3, EP-25
Wednesday
9/30
Boehm Midterm Questions and Answers Homework 6: Cost Analysis II
Friday
10/02
MIDTERM I
08:30AM-09:50AM, SAL101
Monday
10/05
Madachy Software Process Dynamics
Wednesday
10/07
Brown Quality Management EC-11
Friday
10/09
Boehm Economics Analysis I EC-14 SSEcon Ch.10-12 (EP-7), BB 2-2  
Monday
10/12
Brown Economics Analysis II EC-15 SSEcon Ch.13-15 (EP-7, EP-8) Homework 7: NISCM Pilot Case Study
Wednesday
10/14
Boehm Economics Analysis III EC-16 SSEcon Ch.16-18 (EP-8)
Friday
10/16
Malik & Nguyen Software Sizing EC-39    
Monday
10/19
Boehm Economics Analysis, Risk Analysis EC-17 SSEcon Ch.19-20 (EP-9) Homework 8: Economics Analysis I
Wednesday
10/21
Boehm Risk Management I EC-20 BB 5-2, BB 5-3, EP-10
Friday
10/23
Boehm Risk Management II EC-20 BB 5-4, BB 5-5  
Monday
10/26
Boehm ICM and Evidence-Based Reviews EC-33 EP-27 Homework 9: Economics Analysis II
Wednesday
10/28
Brown ICM Cost Estimation, COINCOMO EC-19 CII, Appendix B
Friday
10/30
MIDTERM II
08:30AM-09:50AM, SAL101
 
Monday
11/02
Koolmanojwong COTS-Based Process EC-40 BB 1-4, BB 1-6, BB 9-4 Homework 10: Economics/Risk Analysis (Cancel)
Wednesday
11/04
Cayetano Service Oriented Architectures EC-30  
Friday
11/06
Boehm Software Planning and Control EC-22 EP-12, EP-26
Monday
11/09
Boehm Agility and Quality EC-24 BB 6-4, EP-16
Wednesday
11/11
Boehm Software Engineering Ethics EC-26 EP-13, EP-14, EP-15
Friday
11/13
Reid Outsourcing EC-36 BB 9-1 Homework 11: Critical Path Analysis
Monday
11/16
Reid Software Contracting EC-36 BB 9-1
Wednesday
11/18
Madachy Software Process Dynamics   EC-43    
Friday
11/20
Boehm Future Measurement Challenge EC-41   Homework 12: CTO Analysis: Software as a Service
Monday
11/23
Lane System of Systems Management and Economics EC-42 BB 7-4
Wednesday
11/25
Hefner CMMI, Six Sigma EC-32  
Friday
11/27
THANKSGIVING: NO CLASS
Monday
11/30
Boehm Future Challenges EC-1 BB 6-5, BB 10; CII Ch.6
Wednesday
12/02
NO CLASS
Friday
12/04
NO CLASS Homework 13: CTO Analysis: Autonomic Software
Monday
12/07
STUDY PERIOD
Wednesday
12/09
FINAL EXAM 08:00AM-10:00AM, SGM 101
Note:
EC-Electronic Chart
EP-Electronic Paper
BB-Software Engineering Textbook (Green Cover)*
CII-Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO™ II Textbook (Red Cover)*
BA&D-Balance Agility and Discipline Textbook (Red and White Cover)*
*detailed textbooks information on the homepage