Metrics and Software Project Management for the 21st Century

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Rothman
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Process Control ◽  
Product Development ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Software Quality ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Products

Abstract There is general agreement among the experts and practitioners that a crisis exists in Software Engineering. This crisis is in the area of software quality and schedules. How do we better predict product development progress on an ongoing basis? The quick answer is that all project managers need to know these things: • What are the requirements for functionality, cost, and schedule? • Do I have sufficient resources to meet those requirements? • Am I on target to meet those requirements? These questions are particularly critical for companies who produce complex software, such as real-time or process control products. There are ways to ensure that the requirements of schedule, functionality, and cost are met during project development. This paper will discuss project management activities, possible development process, and predictive measurements for project tracking and prediction for complex software products.

scholarly journals Practitioners’ Perspective on Software Project Management Education

RENOTE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-284
Author(s):  
Maria Lydia Fioravanti ◽  
Antonio Cesar Amaru Maximiano ◽  
Ellen Francine Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Degree Program ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Project Management ◽  
Recent Graduates

Despite Software project management (SPM) being one of the most relevant topicsin the area of software engineering that should be addressed in computing programs, SPM skills of recent graduates are not satisfactory yet. In this context, besides being important to know there are skill deficiencies, we also need to gather specific information on how to adjust and improve the education on the corresponding topics. In this paper we attempt to identify what knowledge deficiencies in SPM can persist after a student graduates from a computing degree program. We surveyed practitioners that graduated and worked as software project managers to gather the knowledge deficiencies from the industry perspective. In general, the results indicated that there is a number of professionals who seeks postgraduate programs to fill the deficiencies of the undergrad programs.

scholarly journals APPROACH FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF TARGET PROCESS MODULE SETS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 531-540
Author(s):  
Albert Albers ◽  
Miriam Wilmsen ◽  
Kilian Gericke
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Process Quality ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Adaptive Processes

AbstractThe implementation of agile frameworks, such as SAFe, in large companies causes conflicts between the overall product development process with a rigid linkage to the calendar cycles and the continuous agile project planning. To resolve these conflicts, adaptive processes can be used to support the creation of realistic target-processes, i.e. project plans, while stabilizing process quality and simplifying process management. This enables the usage of standardisation methods and module sets for design processes.The objective of this contribution is to support project managers to create realistic target-processes through the usage of target-process module sets. These target-process module sets also aim to stabilize process quality and to simplify process management. This contribution provides an approach for the development and application of target-process module sets, in accordance to previously gathered requirements and evaluates the approach within a case study with project managers at AUDI AG (N=21) and an interview study with process authors (N=4) from three different companies.

The Influence of Personality Traits on Software Engineering and its Applications

2014 ◽  
pp. 83-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrián Casado-Rivas ◽  
Manuel Muñoz Archidona
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Myers Briggs Type Indicator ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Engineering Teams ◽  
Software Engineers

In Software Engineering, personality traits have helped to better understand the human factor. In this chapter, the authors give an overview of important personality traits theories that have influenced Software Engineering and have been widely adopted. The theories considered are Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Big Five Personality Traits, and Belbin Roles. The influence of personality traits has provided remarkable benefits to Software Engineering, especially in the making of teams. For software project managers, it is useful to know what set of soft skills correlates to a specific team role so as to analyze how personality traits have contributed to high performance and cohesive software engineering teams. The study of software engineers’ personality traits also helps to motivate team members. Creating teams that involve compatible individuals, each working on tasks that suit them, and having a motivated team improves team performance, productivity, and reduces project costs.

Towards Knowledge Evolution in Software Engineering

2012 ◽  
pp. 8-24
Author(s):  
Yves Wautelet ◽  
Christophe Schinckus ◽  
Manuel Kolp
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Modeling Languages ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Knowledge Evolution ◽  
Iterative Development ◽  
Early Implementation

This article presents an epistemological reading of knowledge evolution in software engineering (SE) both within a software project and into SE theoretical frameworks principally modeling languages and software development life cycles (SDLC). The article envisages SE as an artificial science and notably points to the use of iterative development as a more adequate framework for the enterprise applications. Iterative development has become popular in SE since it allows a more efficient knowledge acquisition process especially in user intensive applications by continuous organizational modeling and requirements acquisition, early implementation and testing, modularity,… SE is by nature a human activity: analysts, designers, developers and other project managers confront their visions of the software system they are building with users’ requirements. The study of software projects’ actors and stakeholders using Simon’s bounded rationality points to the use of an iterative development life cycle. The later, indeed, allows to better apprehend their rationality. Popper’s knowledge growth principle could at first seem suited for the analysis of the knowledge evolution in the SE field. However, this epistemology is better adapted to purely hard sciences as physics than to SE which also takes roots in human activities and by the way in social sciences. Consequently, we will nuance the vision using Lakatosian epistemology notably using his falsification principle criticism on SE as an evolving science. Finally the authors will point to adaptive rationality for a lecture of SE theorists and researchers’ rationality.

Boosting the Competitiveness of Organizations With the Use of Software Engineering

2021 ◽  
pp. 198-216
Author(s):  
Mirna Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Software Quality ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Software Development Process ◽  
The Core ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Technological Base ◽  
The One

Software has become the core of organizations in different domains because the capacity of their products, systems, and services have an increasing dependence on software. This fact highlights the research challenges to be covered by computer science, especially in the software engineering (SE) area. On the one way, SE is in charge of covering all the aspects related to the software development process from the early stages of software development until its maintenance and therefore is closely related to the software quality. On the other hand, SE is in charge of providing engineers able to provide technological-base solutions to solve industrial problems. This chapter provides a research work path focused on helping software development organizations to change to a continuous software improvement culture impacting both their software development process highlighting the human factor training needs. Results show that the implementation of best practices could be easily implemented if adequate support is provided.

Towards Knowledge Evolution in Software Engineering

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-40
Author(s):  
Yves Wautelet ◽  
Christophe Schinckus ◽  
Manuel Kolp
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Modeling Languages ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Knowledge Evolution ◽  
Iterative Development ◽  
Early Implementation

This article presents an epistemological reading of knowledge evolution in software engineering (SE) both within a software project and into SE theoretical frameworks principally modeling languages and software development life cycles (SDLC). The article envisages SE as an artificial science and notably points to the use of iterative development as a more adequate framework for the enterprise applications. Iterative development has become popular in SE since it allows a more efficient knowledge acquisition process especially in user intensive applications by continuous organizational modeling and requirements acquisition, early implementation and testing, modularity,… SE is by nature a human activity: analysts, designers, developers and other project managers confront their visions of the software system they are building with users’ requirements. The study of software projects’ actors and stakeholders using Simon’s bounded rationality points to the use of an iterative development life cycle. The later, indeed, allows to better apprehend their rationality. Popper’s knowledge growth principle could at first seem suited for the analysis of the knowledge evolution in the SE field. However, this epistemology is better adapted to purely hard sciences as physics than to SE which also takes roots in human activities and by the way in social sciences. Consequently, we will nuance the vision using Lakatosian epistemology notably using his falsification principle criticism on SE as an evolving science. Finally the authors will point to adaptive rationality for a lecture of SE theorists and researchers’ rationality.

Integrating Software Engineering and Costing Aspects within Project Management Tools

2009 ◽  
pp. 443-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Gelbard ◽  
Jeffrey Kantor ◽  
Liran Edelist
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Use Cases ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Entire System ◽  
System Software ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Research Platform ◽  
Flow Diagrams

This study proposes and prototypes a model that integrates these three aspects of software projects by automatically mapping SE objects and accounting–costing objects into PM objects. To validate the feasibility of the model and without loss of generality, it is demonstrated using former research platform focused on conversion of data flow diagrams (DFD), which are actually full enterprise set of use cases diagrams reflecting entire system-software project into Gantt charts.

scholarly journals Incorporating Accessibility Elements to the Software Engineering Process

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wesley Tessaro Andrade ◽  
Rodrigo Gonçalves de Branco ◽  
Maria Istela Cagnin ◽  
Débora Maria Barroso Paiva
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Engineering Process ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Computational Support ◽  
Software Engineering Process

The expansion of web is a phenomenon that brings several challenges in different segments of the society. Accessibility is one of these challenges and it is related to the digital inclusion and social welfare of the population. Thus, making accessible software available can contribute to solution of problems that currently exist in relation to access to information and services by all citizens. The purpose of this article is to present an approach that integrates accessibility to the Software Engineering process. We also present the Acero tool, which provides computational support to the proposed approach. Results were evaluated and we concluded that the use of the proposal reached the objectives, supporting different stages of the development process and contributing to obtain accessible software products.

Software Engineering and Software Quality Management

2014 ◽  
Vol 926-930 ◽  
pp. 2642-2645
Author(s):  
Wen Hong Liu ◽  
Chun Yan Wang ◽  
Li Ge
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Quality Management ◽  
Software Quality ◽  
Software Reliability ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Software Quality Management ◽  
Management Method

As the rapid development of social informatization, software reliability and security are highly required. Only applying high-quality software products can increase work efficiency. Quality is the life of software. How to enhance the quality of software products and how to use effective quality management method is an urgent need. This paper discuss the key point of software engineering and software quality management, and this is the basis of software quality ensurance model.

scholarly journals Business Process Reengineering: A Scope of Automation in Software Project Management using Artificial Intelligence

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 3589-3594
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Analytical Study ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Project Management ◽  
Development Organization ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Management Procedures

This research paper aims an analytical study on the software development organization insight into trending automation technologies and their implementation Software Engineering Management (SEM) processes. Software Project Management (SPM) is a scientific art for planning, controlling execution and monitoring. SPM approaches are more focusing towards the essential requirement for the success of software project development. It has been very challenging to manage software development using existing project management procedures driven by software development organizations and this is one of the areas of problem statement for this research. This paper discusses an analytical study for the requirements and consideration of BPR in SPM, explores to spot and emphasizes the important success factors for the execution of a BPR using benefits of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in software development organization. BPR is organizational mechanism that improves ability to respond to challenges of qualitative result by change and improvement in software engineering processes, productivity, product quality and competitive advantages. AI will be the best approach and scope of automation SEM processes for software development organizations. This paper also represents a conceptual view of software engineering model shift for improvements in capability of project managers to handle agile thinking and problem solving for betterment of SPM using Artificial Intelligence.

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