Definitions, characteristics and measures of IT project complexity - a systematic literature review

Morcov, Stefan; Pintalon, Liliane; Kusters, Rob J.

doi:10.12821/ijispm080201

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“…When adopting social media for managing projects, organizations need to consider the factors affecting the complexity and success of its adoption. Megaprojects are generally exposed to underperformance [9], hence do not resemble the best setting for social media adoption, as no specific framework or methodology is recorded in the literature for managing complex IT projects [10]. For the strategic integration and use of social media in project management, the associated benefits and risks need to be explored.…”

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Social media in project management: A systematic narrative literature review

Daemi

Chugh

Kanagarajoo

2021

IJISPM

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Despite the adoption of social media in many business operations, evidence suggests that the usage of social media for project management activities is scarce. Through this literature review, the paper seeks to clarify the scope of the available knowledge, highlight the significance of new research agendas and address the principal reason for the limited use of social media in project management. A literature review was conducted to analyze the benefits of using social media in project management along with the areas in which it is used, the threats, barriers and enablers of social media adoption. Key areas where social media is used in project management include requirements management, communication management, policymaking, knowledge management and collaboration. Social media usage has shown to improve information sharing, engagement and relationships. Threats include a negative impact on reputation, employee productivity and information privacy. The reviewed literature highlights that the lack of a social media adoption strategy is the principal reason for the limited use of social media in project management. This studycontributes to both the project management practice and literature by introducing a model for social media adoption in project management.

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Social media in project management: A systematic narrative literature review

Daemi

Chugh

Kanagarajoo

2021

IJISPM

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“…Risks in software projects may present a threat to project success [39]. It's essential to identify the risk and assess the probability of occurring and its possible impact on the project [26]. Risk management applied to software projects may improve your results [28].…”

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A Recommender System-Based Approach to Risk Management in Scrum Projects

Neto¹,

Dantas

Ramos

et al. 2022

Anais Do II Workshop Brasileiro De Engenharia De Software Inteligente (ISE 2022)

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Risk management is essential in software project management. It includes activities such as identifying, measuring, and monitoring risks. The increasingly popular agile methods don’t offer specific activities to manage risk. The lack of risk management or its inadequate application is one of the reasons for the failure of software development projects. Therefore, we developed an approach to risk management in software development projects that use Scrum. The proposed approach provides a set of risk management practices and an iterative life cycle. Along with this approach, we developed a recommendation algorithm to assist decision-making when identifying risks. Thus, we performed an offline evaluation to verify the best configuration for the recommendation algorithm that will accompany our approach. We chose Manhattan similarity based on the experimental results collected, with a precision of 45%, recall of 90%, and F1-score of 58%. So it is possible to observe that the recommender system can perform risk predictions satisfactorily. Therefore, it is promising to assist in decision-making in Scrum-based projects.

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“…◄ 46 ► In this context, this research is focused on finding productivity measures related to SHF that influence software development productivity [20], [25]. Of course, it should be taken into account that human factors or soft skills have a strong impact on the development team's productivity [21], IT project teams [8], and IT project complexity [26]. With this, we seek to contribute to the software engineering and software project management fields by proposing initiatives closely related to the working team [15].…”

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Measures related to social and human factors that influence productivity in software development teams

Machuca-Villegas

Gasca‐Hurtado

Muñoz

2021

IJISPM

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Software companies need to measure their productivity. Measures are useful indicators to evaluate processes, projects, products, and people who are part of software development teams. The results of these measurements are used to make decisions, manage projects, and improve software development and project management processes. This research is based on selecting a set of measures related to social and human factors (SHF) that influence productivity in software development teams and therefore in project management. This research was performed in three steps. In the first step, there was performed a tertiary literature review aimed to identify measures related to productivity. Then, the identified measures were submitted for its evaluation to project management experts and finally, the measures selected by the experts were mapped to the SHF. A set of 13 measures was identified and defined as a key input for designing improvement strategies. The measures have been compared to SHF to evaluate the development team's performance from a more human context and to establish indicators in productivity improvement strategies of software projects. Although the number of productivity measures related to SHF is limited, it was possible to identify the measures used in both traditional and agile contexts.

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Definitions, characteristics and measures of IT project complexity - a systematic literature review

Cited by 32 publications

References 42 publications

Social media in project management: A systematic narrative literature review

Social media in project management: A systematic narrative literature review

A Recommender System-Based Approach to Risk Management in Scrum Projects

Measures related to social and human factors that influence productivity in software development teams

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