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Project Management Aids

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In this chapter, we examine three project management aids — PERT/CPM, Gantt charts, and project management software. The techniques are useful for managing resources, as well as monitoring of targets and expenditure during a software engineering project. The techniques are also useful in planning the software engineering project — a process which commences with the initial software requirement (ISR), is refined in the requirements specification, and further refined in the design specification. The chapter proceeds under the following captions:

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Foster, E.C. (2014). Project Management Aids. In: Software Engineering. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0847-2_8

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