Major Issues in Software Engineering Project Management

Thayer, Richard H.; Pyster, Art; Wood, Roger C.

doi:10.1109/tse.1981.234533

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“…Finally, hear she often crafts a design for the program before generating the code, documents the program fully, and writes the program in a structured, modular fashion so that others can easily read and modify it. Major issues in software engineering at high sublevels within this level of expertise are discussed by Thayer, Pyster and Wood (1981).…”

Section: Level IV Software Developermentioning

confidence: 99%

On the cognitive effects of learning computer programming

Pea

Kurland

1984

New Ideas in Psychology

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Abstract-This paper critically examines current thinking about whether learning computer programming promotes the development of general higher mental functions. We show how the available evidence, and the underlying assumptions about the process of learning to program fail to address this issue adequately. Our analysis is based on a developmental cognitive science perspective on learning to program incorporating developmental and cognitive science considerations of the mental activities involved in programming. It highlights the importance for future research of investigating students' interactions with instructional and programming contexts, developmental transformation of their programming skills, and their background knowledge and reasoning abilities.

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Section: Level IV Software Developermentioning

confidence: 99%

On the cognitive effects of learning computer programming

Pea

Kurland

1984

New Ideas in Psychology

455

197

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“…Moreover, unique tools and techniques were developed to address challenges related to management of software development projects [3], [4], [5]. Many investments have been especially directed to support project upfront planning activities, in particular to find reliable duration, effort and cost estimation models for project outcome prediction.…”

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Why a CMMI Level 5 Company Fails to Meet the Deadlines?

Šmite

Gencel

2009

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Abstract. Reliable effort and cost estimation remains to be a challenging issue even for mature software organizations. Although, these organizations collect historical data to base their future estimates, changes in circumstances (such as application type, development platform, etc.) prevent their successful utilization. As a result, companies often suffer from underestimated and unrealistic schedules. Managing software projects that involve a large number of globally distributed stakeholders makes estimation and planning even more challenging. Related studies show that even knowledgeable project managers often underestimate hidden costs and sources of delay associated with distributed development. Therefore, management activities such as estimation of development effort, planning and control require special attention. In this paper we discuss experiences gained from a highly distributed software project, which aimed at development of a product based on a new platform and architectural solution. The project was conducted in a CMMI Level 5 company and still failed to meet initial plan constraints. We thus provide an overview of management decisions in the light of their consequences, and discuss potential areas of improvement.

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“…The iterative life cycle model that has become a standard in the software industry lead by Rational Unified Process (RUP), where on behalf the waterfall process, the iterative approach is superior providing a mature, rigorous, and flexible software engineering process (Kruchten, 2000). On the other hand, the requirements prototyping model aims to build a partial implementation of a the system, where the main focus is to express purpose of learning about the system's requirements and capture what was learned when working with the prototype and then use it in documenting the actual requirements' specifications for the real system development (Thayer, 2000). Both models allowed us to construct a prototype in few weeks (four weeks in total).…”

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Virtual Work Group Collaboration in a Manufacturing Process

González-Trujillo¹

2010

Process Management

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Major Issues in Software Engineering Project Management

Cited by 44 publications

References 6 publications

On the cognitive effects of learning computer programming

On the cognitive effects of learning computer programming

Why a CMMI Level 5 Company Fails to Meet the Deadlines?

Virtual Work Group Collaboration in a Manufacturing Process

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