Software Project Management Plan Template

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:58:14 +0000

I'm currently using Scrum in my school capstone project. The advisor, however, designed the deliverables around the Unified Process and still expects some things like a Software Project Management Plan (SPMP). While it's a little late in the game, I've decided to fill one out and hope that maybe it'll help weed out some requirements I didn't document well in my backlogs.

First task - find a template. An SPMP is usually based off of IEEE's standard 1058-1998, which costs more than a hundred dollars to get a copy of. I'm not paying $100+ to get a 200KB document. I've seen example around the Internet of a SPMP but nothing that was formatted well in Word or handled copying and pasting into Word. I spent some time doing more digging and found this wonderful site -

Template on The Dangling Pointer

Software Project Management Plan Template