Software project tracking metrics analysis model based on project requirements

  • Authors:
  • Evangelos Markopoulos;Georgios Alexopoulos;Nikolitsa Bouzoukou;Javier Bilbao

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece;Process Engineering Research Unit, EMPROSS Strategic IT Consultants - Germany, Munich, Germany;International Business Development Unit, EMPROSS Strategic IT Consultants, Cambridge, MA;Applied Mathematics Department, Engineering School, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain

  • Venue:
  • MMACTEE'09 Proceedings of the 11th WSEAS international conference on Mathematical methods and computational techniques in electrical engineering
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The requirement in software projects and initiatives can be considered as a living organism that is evolved throughout the project development process. Controlling the evolution of the project requirements can successfully assure qualitative and quantitative project management metrics. Managing software projects by tracking and measuring the requirements behavior in a project life cycle is an innovative and challenging software project management conception and approach. This paper aims to introduce a new project management method based on requirements management tracking, using a number of metrics that analyze the requirements evolutional behavior against weighted project implementation phases, weighted project functionality and weighted project goals and expectations. To achieve such results, the requirements are also weighted themselves on project complexity and criticality. This weighted requirements based project tracking process, is supported by a project tracking analysis model combining a set of metrics that result to the identification of a single volume indicating the progress of the project.