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5.1. Start-up Plan
5.1.1. Estimation Plan
5. MANAGERIAL PROCESS PLANS
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Test Management Tool (TMT)
Software Project Management Plan (SPMP)
TMT-SPMP-1.2
27-Sep-2010
The TMT project estimation is based on the detailed work break structure defined in the TMT
Team’s Metric Program (i.e., in MS Excel). The TMT PM defines the high-level tasks based on
the project scope and high-level requirements and then coordinates with the team leads (i.e.,
Requirements Lead, Design Lead, Development Lead, and Test Lead) to further break each highlevel
task down to lower-level tasks. Each low-level task will be defined, assigned, and estimated
as follows:
Task Name:
The project management tasks are defined to develop the development plans and
run the team, including team meetings, status reports, coordination, and team
support. These tasks are mostly assigned to the project team manager.
The test management tool tasks are defined to develop the product that is broken
off into different product features. The project team manager provides the initial
task effort estimation and then assigns to team members based on their skill sets;
i.e., requirements, design, coding, testing, and documentation. On Monday of
each week, all team members get together and re-assess initial effort estimation to
provide more accurate effort estimation based on the previous actual efforts.
The support tasks are defined to do miscellaneous product supports and
maintenance during testing and customer demos.
For each task, the project team manager provides planned task information (i.e., start
date, finish date, duration, effort, and cost); the responsible team members record the
actual information.
Start Date: The date when the work begins.
Finish Date: The date when the work finishes.
Duration: The total number of days the work takes place.
Effort: The total hours it takes to finish the work.
Cost: The total of cost in dollar to complete the work.
Resource: The responsible team member (s) to work the task.
5.1.2. Staffing Plan
The project team consists of 5 graduate students pre-assigned to the team to complete the STS
architectural framework and the TMT tool. The following table summarizes the skill levels of all
team members: