AAAI '98/IAAI '98 Proceedings of the fifteenth national/tenth conference on Artificial intelligence/Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
Applications of simulation in project management
WSC '79 Proceedings of the 11th conference on Winter simulation - Volume 1
On Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Complexity in Project Management
Management Science
Automated Planning: Theory & Practice
Automated Planning: Theory & Practice
METRICS '04 Proceedings of the Software Metrics, 10th International Symposium
Simulation-based planning for planetary rover experiments
WSC '05 Proceedings of the 37th conference on Winter simulation
A Hybrid Model for Dynamic Simulation of Custom Software Projects in a Multiproject Environment
ICSP '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Process: Trustworthy Software Development Processes
Decision making support in CMMI process areas using multiparadigm simulation modeling
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
Agent-based simulation of the software development process: a case study at AVL
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
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Estimates of task duration and resource requirements in software engineering are notoriously inaccurate, and as a result effective project management often must be very dynamic. In response to new information or revised estimates, it may be necessary to reassign resources, cancel optional tasks, etc. Project management tools that make projections while treating decisions about tasks and resource assignments as static will not yield realistic results. In this paper we describe some preliminary attempts to adapt a simulation-based planning algorithm developed for planning experimental activities of Mars rovers to the problem of planning for software project management. Simulation techniques offer the potential for modeling the way agents behave in project development, and the way a manager might adapt the project plan based on the project status at future points, resulting in a tool that more accurately reflects the realities of software project management.