ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the right-to-left arrow at the bottom of that figure. In the process-based software process management approach, there are definite and directly connected “role players” that cooperate in various ways with the software project manager. These role players are the following: engineering, accounting, software configuration management (SCM) and software quality assurance (SQA). SCM must move swiftly and act on the END from the “Design Down” task to provide just-in-time support for the software project manager and engineering to keep going on the project schedule. The software project manager can take the information from the last bulleted item, qualified by the earlier bulleted items, and place it all on the planning schedule immediately. This information comes directly from engineering’s high-level design activity. The resultant planning schedule is totally aligned with the engineering design and integration plans. SQA could also perform a quality check on the accounting charge number file if it is so desired.
