Paper Info
Title
A Simulation Framework to Support Software Project (Re)Planning
Abstract
Planning and replanning software projects involves selecting activities according to organisational policies, project goals and contexts, deciding how to effect the activities, and dealing with uncertainty in activity outputs. There is at the present time no general model to support project managers with all of these tasks. The contributions of this paper are to propose a set of properties that are desirable in a model for (re)planning and to create a framework based on these properties. The purpose of the framework is to support the modelling and simulation of (re)planning during software projects. Key aspects of the framework are a focus on project objectives as drivers of activity selection, and activity prediction that supports uncertainty and that may be based on previous activity data, expert opinion or experimental evidence. We present a `proof-of-concept' case study to illustrate how the framework can be applied to support planning.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/SEAA.2009.64
EUROMICRO-SEAA
Keywords
Field
DocType
general model,previous activity data,activity prediction,software project,activity selection,project objective,project manager,simulation framework,replanning software project,support software project,activity output,project goal,uncertainty,proof of concept,simulation,inspection,planning,software system,software systems,mathematical model,testing
Systems engineering,Computer science,Software system,Software project management,Proof of concept,Software,Project planning
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1089-6503
978-0-7695-3784-9
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
16
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Diana Kirk1557.68
Stephen MacDonell2612.60