Object database support for a software project management environment
SDE 3 Proceedings of the third ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on Practical software development environments
Managing the software process
Applications of a relative complexity metric for software project management
Journal of Systems and Software - An Oregon workshop on software metrics
Teamwork Support in a Knowledge-Based Information Systems Environment
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An Entropy-Based Measure of Software Complexity
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software measurement principles, techniques, and environments
A &bgr;-distributed stochastic Petri net model for software project time/cost management
Journal of Systems and Software
Fuzzy project scheduling system for software development
Fuzzy Sets and Systems - Special issue on operations research
Empirical studies in software development projects: field survey and OS/400 study
Information and Management
Standardization, requirements uncertainty and software project performance
Information and Management
An installable version control file system for Unix
Software—Practice & Experience
Critical ethnography in information systems
Proceedings of the IFIP TC8 WG 8.2 international conference on Information systems and qualitative research
F-metric: a WWW-based framework for intelligent formulation and analysis of metric queries
Journal of Systems and Software
A set of principles for conducting and evaluating interpretive field studies in information systems
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on intensive research in information systems
Empirical analysis in software process simulation modeling
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue on empirical studies of software development and evolution
Software Engineering
Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach
Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach
Genetic Algorithms for Project Management
Annals of Software Engineering
Large-Scale Project Management Is Risk Management
IEEE Software
A Net Practice for Software Project Management
IEEE Software
Software Metrics Knowledge and Databases for Project Management
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Project Management Knowledge Reuse through Scenario Models
ICSR-7 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Reuse: Methods, Techniques, and Tools
HICSS '01 Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences ( HICSS-34)-Volume 8 - Volume 8
COCOMO-Based Effort Estimation for Iterative and Incremental Software Development
Software Quality Control
An Integrative Contingency Model of Software Project Risk Management
Journal of Management Information Systems
A Contingency Approach to Software Project Coordination
Journal of Management Information Systems
Prescription, description, reflection: the shape of the software process improvement field
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Supporting risks in software project management
Journal of Systems and Software
Facilitating experience reuse among software project managers
Information Sciences: an International Journal
How IT project managers cope with stress
Proceedings of the 2010 Special Interest Group on Management Information System's 48th annual conference on Computer personnel research on Computer personnel research
Agile requirements prioritization in large-scale outsourced system projects: An empirical study
Journal of Systems and Software
Software project management tools: a brief comparative view
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
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Traditional software project management theory often focuses on desk-based development of software and algorithms, much in line with the traditions of the classical project management and software engineering. This can be described as a tools and techniques perspective, which assumes that software project management success is dependent on having the right instruments available, rather than on the individual qualities of the project manager or the cumulative qualities and skills of the software organisation. Surprisingly, little is known about how (or whether) these tools techniques are used in practice. This study, in contrast, uses a qualitative grounded theory approach to develop the basis for an alternative theoretical perspective: that of competence. A competence approach to understanding software project management places the responsibility for success firmly on the shoulders of the people involved, project members, project leaders, managers. The competence approach is developed through an investigation of the experiences of project managers in a medium sized software development company (WM-data) in Denmark. Starting with a simple model relating project conditions, project management competences and desired project outcomes, we collected data through interviews, focus groups and one large plenary meeting with most of the company's project managers. Data analysis employed content analysis for concept (variable) development and causal mapping to trace relationships between variables. In this way we were able to build up a picture of the competences project managers use in their daily work at WM-data, which we argue is also partly generalisable to theory. The discrepancy between the two perspectives is discussed, particularly in regard to the current orientation of the software engineering field. The study provides many methodological and theoretical starting points for researchers wishing to develop a more detailed competence perspective of software project managers' work.