Project-Driven Teaching Model for Software Project Management Course

Software project management is a sub-discipline of project management in which software projects are planned, monitored and controlled. The software project management course has become the core curriculum of many software Institutes. However, because it is one of the management courses, it has strong practicality. But students lack the background of project practice, which leads to a bad teaching effect. In this work, it presents a teaching mode based on project-driven for software project management course, and describes it from the aspects of training objectives, training mode, teaching cases, teaching process, teaching content, team formation, and assessment mechanism. And finally it provides a summary and analysis of the characteristics of this teaching mode as well as the effect of the curriculum practice. The practices results show that it is a feasible teaching mode for software project management course.