Software Project Manager Competency And Case Studies

The research of project manager's competence model is still a new field and in the exploring phase in practice, which belongs to human recourse management. Based on PMBOK (Project Management Body Of Knowledge), this article analyses the existing problems in China's software industry and software project, puts forward that the key point of software project implement effect is a competent project manager. Furthermore, by analyzing the project manager's competence, this article sets up the project manager's competence model including threshold competence characteristic, distinguish competence characteristic and transform competence characteristic. The evaluate table drew-out by interview and practice can grade the performance of software project manager and provide reference for human resource to select and exam software project manager.The researching results include the following items:1) giving definition to software project manager's competence2) setting up the model of software project manager's competence and proportion of its characteristic3) providing the evaluate table to software project manager's competence4) educing the value on software project manager of normal(threshold competence characteristic), good (distinguish competence characteristic) and excellence(transform competence characteristic)The main knowledge and theory include: project management and human resource management, profound software technology and experience, the researching result of existing competence and software project manager's competence and AHP analyzing method. This article composes the inheriting of existing knowledge, the interview of organizer and software project manager and the research of software project practice. Hope this article can provide a resolvent to software industry.