The effectiveness of software project management practices a quantitative measurement
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Authors
Cullen, Christopher D.
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Osmundson, John
Shing, Man-Tak
Demir, Kadir Alpaslan
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2011-03
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Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
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A tool that measures the effectiveness of software project management can be used to identify strengths and weaknesses, and guide improvement to practices in order to increase the chances of project success. The Software Project Management Effectiveness (PME) Metric is one such tool that has shown promise in this area of software engineering. To discover how promising the metric is, nine software practitioners participated in this research and assisted with measuring projects they recently worked on. A strong correlation between the PME metric and project success was identified. The software practitioners also provided feedback on the usefulness and applicability of the PME metric. Seventy-five percent of the software practitioners stated that they would use the metric on the next project they worked on. This research has found that the PME metric should be considered for use by project managers who continuously want to improve and deliver successful software projects.
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Computer Science
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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xvi, 187 p. ;
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.