Project Management

There are many considerations to be made when managing a software development project. Sometimes there can be a conflict of interests and goals in keeping within the budget, keeping within a deadline and meeting the expectations of the customer. In the process of software development there is a lot of potential variability. Sometimes, despite extensive organization and management efforts projects can run over budget, be unfinished before deadlines and generally become a big mess.

It is not always possible to define or determine the potential limits for a specific project. This can be especially difficult if the project manager is not knowledgeable regarding the technical limitations of a development project.  A task may seem simple when it is in reality complicated, and deadlines set based on limited understandings may create unreasonable time constraints on developers.

There are also complications that can crop up often between individuals working on a project, especially in software development groups. A project manager must be knowledgeable on everything being done by each member, and help facilitate communication and collaboration between each person in the group.

The software development process varies between each organization, it's different for every business, every team, and every individual. This means there are no general guidelines for defining deadlines or organizing teams. Everything will change on a case-by-case basis.