Managing I/S design teams: a control theories perspective
Management Science
The interdisciplinary study of coordination
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Software project management: a unified framework
Software project management: a unified framework
Global software teams: collaborating across borders and time zones
Global software teams: collaborating across borders and time zones
Qualitative Methods in Empirical Studies of Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Multi-method research: an empirical investigation of object-oriented technology
Journal of Systems and Software
Modeling Software Measurement Data
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software Metrics: Measurement for Software Process Improvement
Software Metrics: Measurement for Software Process Improvement
SAICSIT '02 Proceedings of the 2002 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on Enablement through technology
Managing the Component-Based Software Engineering with Metrics
SAST '97 Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Assessment of Software Tools (SAST '97)
Towards a coordination cookbook: recipes for multi-agent action
Towards a coordination cookbook: recipes for multi-agent action
Coordinating Expertise in Software Development Teams
Management Science
Portfolios of Control in Outsourced Software Development Projects
Information Systems Research
Coordination and collective mind in software requirements development
IBM Systems Journal
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Strategic and competitive information systems
Understanding qualitative data: a framework of text analysis methods
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Strategic and competitive information systems
Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling
Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling
A Contingency Approach to Software Project Coordination
Journal of Management Information Systems
Management of large software development efforts
MIS Quarterly
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The changing environments of software development such as component-based, distributed and outsourced software development require matching changes by project managers to monitor, control and coordinate their projects. While the objectives of project management may be well established, the mechanisms with which those objectives are achieved are less well known. An empirical study was undertaken to investigate which mechanisms were used by practising project managers to monitor, control and coordinate software development projects. First, the types of mechanisms are discussed so that the mechanisms can be classified usefully. Then, the design of the empirical study is described. The data were collected through structured interview, which provided both quantitative and qualitative data. The data are analysed for each mechanism separately and the findings presented. The study found that project managers use multiple mechanisms to achieve project management objectives and use the same mechanism to serve multiple objectives. Further research is suggested to investigate project management from the opposite orientation, that is, which objectives are served by specific project management mechanisms.