The Effectiveness of Software Project Management Practices: A Quantitative Measurement

Abstract

A tool that measures the effectiveness of software project management can be used to identify strengths and weaknesses, and guide improvement to practices in order to increase the chances of project success. The Software Project Management Effectiveness (PME) Metric is one such tool that has shown promise in this area of software engineering. To discover how promising the metric is, nine software practitioners participated in this research and assisted with measuring projects they recently worked on. A strong correlation between the PME metric and project success was identified. The software practitioners also provided feedback on the usefulness and applicability of the PME metric. Seventy-five percent of the software practitioners stated that they would use the metric on the next project they worked on. This research has found that the PME metric should be considered for use by project managers who continuously want to improve and deliver successful software projects.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA543753

Entities

People

  • Christopher D. Cullen

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Best Practices
  • Business Administration
  • Command And Control
  • Commerce
  • Computers
  • Correlation Analysis
  • Data Analysis
  • Engineering
  • Information Science
  • Institutional Review Board
  • Knowledge Management
  • Management Personnel
  • Organizational Structure
  • Project Management
  • Reliability
  • Risk Analysis
  • Software Development

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Mathematics or Statistics
  • STEM Education
  • Software Engineering.