Software Project Milestone Management Framework Design

To aim at the difficulties in project process management that domestic software enterprise encountered and consider special requirements in software development project process management, this paper is intended to develop a practical and operative Software Project Milestone Management Framework according to CMM Guide, which can improve software development project management Process capability effectively.The design innovation have been implemented in the Milestone Management Framework as the following:1. The Milestone Management Framework consists of 16 business decision milestones from MPP and SPD. These milestones are organized into five phases that follow a standard and logical sequence for new product development, which include Business Case Development, Portfolio Planning, Project Definition, Project Implementation, Launch and Closeout.2. Ongoing market analysis places focus on customer, so the Milestone Management Framework is driven by market and realized by engineering. Enhancing communications related to the process of market and product line planning with system and product development, the Milestone Management Framework ensures new product meet customer expectation.3. The Project Milestone Management Framework integrates the functions related to business plan, investment management, project planning, tracking and control process. It provide software enterprises with a clear, unified approach to coordinatingfunctions including Marketing, Engineering, Project Management and Manufacturing activities that will ensure proper business planning and execution correctly. Its forward-looking processes management can be helpful to identify and select the best solution.4. With its feature of continuous evolution and improvement software process, the Project Milestone Management Framework is designed to accord with CMM architecture. The Project Milestone Management Framework just fills that blank of CMM with its project management working procedures.The implementation of Project Milestone Management Framework combined with CMM architecture will enhance software process capability and maturity of enterprise, help to achieve CMM level assessment, enhance competency of enterprise in international software market.The paper analyzed software project process problems existed in domestic software enterprises. The application of Project Milestone Management Framework can improve and rebuild those inapplicable project management processes related to business plan, investment plan, requirement baseline, effort estimation, project plan, cost control and software quality assurance.It is indicated that possible obstacles and mistakes exist in practicing Project Management Process Rebuilding. The principle, strategy, preparation, guarantee, schedule, action plan and steps applied in practicing Software Process Improvement and Rebuilding are investigated. A reference solution is suggested finally.