The dynamics of software project scheduling

  • Authors:
  • Tarek K. Abdel-Hamid;Stuart E. Madnick

  • Affiliations:
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge;Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1983

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Abstract

Software project scheduling is one of the major problem areas faced by software project managers today. While several quantitative software project resource and schedule estimation methods have been developed, such techniques raise some important, but as yet unresolved, dynamic issues. A systems dynamics (SD) approach is used to analyze several key dynamic software project scheduling issues.