Staffing a software project: a constraint satisfaction approach

Authors:
Ahilton Barreto;Márcio Barros;Cláudia Werner
Affiliations:
COPPE-UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;DIA-UNIRIO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;COPPE-UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Venue:
EDSER '05 Proceedings of the seventh international workshop on Economics-driven software engineering research
Year:
2005

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Abstract

This paper presents an optimization based approach to support staffing a software project. The approach takes into account the characteristics of the project activities, the characteristics of the available human resources, and constraints established by the software development organization in charge of the project. According to these needs, the project manager selects a utility function to be maximized or minimized by the optimizer. We propose several utility functions, each addressing specific values which can be sought by the development organization.