Software Engineering Project Management

CS 413 treats software development as a managed undertaking rather than a coding exercise, focusing on how you plan, estimate, schedule, and steer a real project from kickoff through closure without it collapsing under its own weight. The work is project-heavy: you produce a sequence of term-project deliverables (WBS, schedules, cost and risk plans, Gantt charts in tools like MS Project) and defend them in an oral presentation, applying ideas from Sommerville and PMBOK to your own team. It sits at the point where your earlier CS coursework on building systems meets the reality of doing so with deadlines, budgets, and people, and it's the closest preview you'll get to leading a software team after graduation.