Coordinating models and metrics to manage software projects

Measuring and predicting software productivity: A systematic map and review

“…The event-based models using queuing/discrete event or statebased simulation [31,61,62] all applied the simulation models in an industrial context and provided positive results, such as the support of simulation helps to achieve higher CMM levels [31], aids in getting a buy-in for change initiatives [31], aid in understandability [31], and accurate prediction of past performance [62]. The study presented in [62] reported that predictive accuracy could be improved when continuously updating the simulation model by linking it to a corporate data repository for collected measures.…”

“…Industrial studies restricted to military [31,61,62] and space [58]. Scenarios of lab applications on verification and validation techniques [60,35,33,32,34] Several studies on each type of simulation model (see Tables 12-14), but models different as built for individual companies/simulation purposes Majority of studies received medium scores on rigor (eight studies have a score of four or five), Three studies have a score of six or greater (see Table 17) Comparison with facts is the primary way of evaluating lab studies, Study [58] is a role model in the sense that it uses several criteria in one study Both newer and older studies identified, six studies before 2000, five studies in or after 2000 Four industrial and seven lab studies (see Table 18) relationships between variables might be different compared to more classical software development approaches, such as plandriven development.…”

A discrete event simulation model in the case of managing a software project

“…The first is that the project execution consists, during its various phases, of artifacts that are gradually processed at the activities within each phase. As the transition among phases or processes takes place, each artifact is transformed into an artifact of the following phase or process, where each transformation corresponds to an activity, a process or a phase [4,17]. For example, an artifact representing the code of a product is transformed into a checked code after having passed the unit testing activity.…”

Software project management using PROMPT: A hybrid metrics, modeling and utility framework

“…As mentioned in [16], the above activities were supported by combining a universal metrics repository with a stochastic software process simulation model.…”

“…The concept for this framework was first reported in [16] and focused on the novel role played by the flexible metrics repository. In this paper, we focus on the overall decision framework using outcome based control limits (OBCLs), utility functions and financial performance measures (e.g.…”