Paper Info
Title
Evaluating Software Project Control Centers in Industrial Environments
Abstract
Many software development organizations still lack support for detecting and reacting to critical project states in order to achieve planned goals. One means to institutionalize project control, systematic quality assurance, and management support on the basis of measurement and explicit models is the establishment of so-called Software Project Control Centers. However, there is only little experience reported in the literature with respect to setting up and applying such control centers in industrial environments. One possible reason is the lack of appropriate evaluation instruments (such as validated questionnaires and appropriate analysis procedures). Therefore, we developed an initial measurement instrument to systematically collect experience with respect to the deployment and use of control centers. Our main research goal was to develop and evaluate the measurement instrument. The instrument is based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and customized to project controlling. This article illustrates the application and evaluation of this measurement instrument in the context of industrial case studies and provides lessons learned for further improvement. In addition, related work and conclusions for future work are given.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/ESEM.2007.42
ESEM
Keywords
Field
DocType
measurement instrument,appropriate evaluation instrument,future work,project control,control center,critical project state,collect experience,appropriate analysis procedure,software project control centers,initial measurement instrument,industrial environments,industrial case study,quality assurance,software quality,software metrics,software development,project management
Software deployment,Systems engineering,Computer science,Technology acceptance model,Software project management,Software metric,Software quality,Software development,Quality assurance,Project management
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1949-3770
0-7695-2886-4
14
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.98
7
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marcus Ciolkowski135525.44
J. Heidrich2141.32
Jürgen Münch31286147.27
F. Simon4140.98
M. Radicke5140.98