Software Management Indicators: Managing the Risk of Project Management
Abstract
Managing software projects continues to be a high risk activity. Projects often end up out of control and result in cost and time overruns. Projects could be better managed if managers were forewarned that a project may be out of control before it is actually out of control. With advance notice of changing risk factors, project managers can take appropriate action to bring the project back on track and reduce project management risk's impact. To create this early warning system, an effort to develop a suite of software management indicators has been evolving. Software management indicators are equivalent that predict project development process quality or health. This will allow managers manage risk associated with software development efforts. Software management indicators will be discussed and explained. Since much of this work has been done by government contractors in the United States, the focus will be to explain the use of methods developed in this environment. Exploration of experiences with these indicators will be shared. Qualitative research done by querying promoters and users of these techniques will explain what software management indicators are, why they should be used, when they are appropriate, and implementation hurdles that need to be cleared. Theses.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1989
- Accession Number
- ADA208443
Entities
People
- Court C. Allen
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology