Software multi-project resource scheduling: a comparative analysis

  • Authors:

  • Fei Dong;Mingshu Li;Yuzhu Zhao;Juan Li;Ye Yang

  • Affiliations:

  • Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences;Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences;Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences;Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences;Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • Venue:
  • ICSP'08 Proceedings of the Software process, 2008 international conference on Making globally distributed software development a success story
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Software organizations are always multi-project-oriented, in whichsituation the traditional project management for individual project is notenough. Related scientific research on multi-project is yet scarce. This paper reportsresult from a literature review aiming to organize, analyze and make senseout of the dispersed field of multi-project resource scheduling methods. A comparativeanalysis was conducted according to 6 aspects of application situations:value orientation, centralization, homogeneity, complexity, uncertainty and executiveability. The findings show that, traditional scheduling methods fromgeneral project management community have high degree of centralization andlimited capability to deal with uncertainty, and do not well catered for softwareprojects. In regard to these aspects agile methods are better, but most of themlack scalability to high complexity. Some methods have balanced competenceand special attention should be paid to them. In brief, methods should be chosenaccording to different situations in practice.