Technology Complexity in Projects: Does Classical Project Management Work?

Camci, Alper; Kotnour, Tim

doi:10.1109/picmet.2006.296806

Cited by 12 publications

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“…ATT [42] Objectives Complexity The complexity of a project directly influcences the process [4,51,12], e.g., by creating prototypes or following a divide and conquer strategy (creating sub projects). A higher complexity usually causes a more comprehensive software process, more (formalized) communication, a more formalized configuration and change management and so on.…”

Section: Client Availabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Criteria for software process tailoring: a systematic review

Kalus¹,

Kuhrmann²

2013

Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software and System Process

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Independently from which software process was selected for a company or a project, the selected software process usually cannot be applied without any customization. Although the need to tailor a software process to specific project requirements seems to be widely accepted and unquestioned, the way of doing the tailoring remains unclear and is, therefore, often left to the expertise of process engineers or project managers. What are the criteria to be applied in the tailoring? What are dependencies between different criteria and how should certain criteria influence the software process? In this paper we investigate concrete tailoring criteria for the tailoring of software processes. To this end, we present a collection of 49 tailoring criteria as the outcomes of a systematic literature review. We further analyze the impact of the discovered tailoring criteria by relating them to a set of 20 exemplary tailoring actions, which affect the projectspecific software process. Our outcomes show that the factors influencing the tailoring are well understood, however, the consequences of the criteria remain abstract and need to be interpreted on a project-per-project basis.

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Section: Client Availabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Criteria for software process tailoring: a systematic review

Kalus¹,

Kuhrmann²

2013

Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software and System Process

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“…When it comes to project complexity, one of the main contributors is the complexity of the methods with regards to achieving the project goals [11]. The methods generally consist of processes, tools, and techniques that are used to complete the corresponding project [12]. In particular, processes and techniques have been viewed as internal environment of a system (organization), while the system's complexity is considered a response to the environmental complexity [13].…”

Section: B Qualitative Effort Judgment Hypothesesmentioning

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A Qualitative Approach to Effort Judgment for Web Service Composition Based SOA Implementations

Zheng

O’Brien

2011

2011 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications

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Abstract-With more and more availability of services, Web service composition (WSC) based SOA implementations have increasingly become a significant type of SOA projects in practice. However, effort estimation for such a type of SOA project can still be limited because of the numerous and various approaches to WSC. Through viewing WSC based SOA system from a perspective of mechanistic organization, this paper borrows Divide-and-Conquer (D&C) as the generic strategy to narrow down the problem of effort judgment for the entire SOA implementation to that for individual WSCs. Moreover, benefiting from an effort-oriented classification matrix and a set of effort-related hypotheses, we assign scores to effort factors of WSC assisted by a set of rules. These effort scores are used to facilitate qualitatively judging different effort between different types of WSC approaches, and eventually construct an effort checklist for WSC approaches. Finally, this effort checklist can be used together with D&C algorithm to realize the qualitative effort judgment for WSC based SOA implementations.

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“…Although the idea of project management has emerged as early as when human started building massive structure such as the ancient pyramid (Nicholas, 2001), the modern project management discipline as we know today has been around for a more than sixty years (Camci and Katnour, 2006). Project management has since emerged as its own field, supported by bodies of knowledge and researches across many discipline.…”

Section: Project Managementmentioning

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“…The basic idea of project management is to ensure success of a project development. However, many studies have claimed that project management of many software application and technology-based development projects either fail to reach their goals or fail completely (Camci and Katnour, 2006).…”

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A Review on Project Management and Issues Surrounding Dynamic Development Environment of ICT project: Formation of Research Area

Othman¹,

Zain²,

Hamdan³

2010

JDCTA

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This paper presents a review of methods, practices, and analysis on performance and challenges of Project Management for ICT projects with regards to accommodating change. Specifically, the main interest of the review is to understand the impact that is brought by the dynamic environment of projects developed today. The dynamic environment is synonymous to instability but the traditional project management approach favours a stable environment. The following were undertaken: 1. Review of the existing and popular standards, practices, and tools. 2. Study on reasons leading to project failures 3. Analyses of how much of these failures are connected to the dynamic/unstable/changing nature of the development environment. The undertakings lead to a high level solution proposal. It is hoped that the undertaking has formed a strong foundation for further research dedicated at improving project management approach of ICT project development given an unstable environment.

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Technology Complexity in Projects: Does Classical Project Management Work?

Cited by 12 publications

References 10 publications

Criteria for software process tailoring: a systematic review

Criteria for software process tailoring: a systematic review

A Qualitative Approach to Effort Judgment for Web Service Composition Based SOA Implementations

A Review on Project Management and Issues Surrounding Dynamic Development Environment of ICT project: Formation of Research Area

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