Paper Info
Title
Is Non Technical Person a Better Software Project Manager?
Abstract
All over the world software industry is facing the threatening failure rate of software projects. The scenario is worst in Pakistan having very immature software industry where projects are mostly over budgeted, over scheduled, and get low customer satisfaction. Organizations are spending a lot on project management training to make their projects successful but still the rate of software projects failure is very high. Project managerpsilas knowledge, skills, and experiences are just not giving required results. This paper is based on the results of a survey conducted about the skill set of software project managers, their experience and education level, and success rate of their projects. The conclusions are made about the required skill set of technical as well as non technical project managers of Pakistan in particular and of the world in general.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/CSSE.2008.1125
Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2008 International Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
DP industry,education,human resource management,personnel,project management,software management,education level,experience level,nontechnical person,project management training,project success rate,software industry,software project failure,software project manager,technical skills,non technical skills,project manager,software project management,technical skills
Software review,Extreme project management,Engineering management,Computer science,Knowledge management,Software quality management,Software project management,Software technical review,Project manager,Team software process,Database,Project management
Conference
Volume
ISBN
Citations 
2
978-0-7695-3336-0
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zunera Jalil100.34
Arshad Ali Shahid2284.10