TY - GEN
T1 - Software project management tools
T2 - 30th Annual IEEE/NASA Software Engineering Workshop, SEW-30
AU - Ahmad, Norita
AU - Laplante, Phillip A.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - The selection of an appropriate software project management tool, as in the selection of many other tools, is often approached using an ad hoc process. Such non-rigorous approaches often based on personal preference, intuition, or marketing hype, can lead to an erroneous result. In this paper a rigorous model for selecting a software project management tool using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is presented. The AHP provides a flexible, systematic, and repeatable evaluation procedure that can easily be understood by the decision maker in selecting the appropriate software project management tool. Several relevant factors based on the most common features offered by commercial off-the-shelf solutions (COTS) are used as the selection criteria in ranking the software project management tools. The contribution of this work is to apply a well-known decision making procedure in a novel way to help decision makers better identify an appropriate software project management tool without having to go through a more extensive evaluation process. In addition, this work establishes a framework for comparing individual product decisions across projects, project managers, organizational groups, and organizations.
AB - The selection of an appropriate software project management tool, as in the selection of many other tools, is often approached using an ad hoc process. Such non-rigorous approaches often based on personal preference, intuition, or marketing hype, can lead to an erroneous result. In this paper a rigorous model for selecting a software project management tool using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is presented. The AHP provides a flexible, systematic, and repeatable evaluation procedure that can easily be understood by the decision maker in selecting the appropriate software project management tool. Several relevant factors based on the most common features offered by commercial off-the-shelf solutions (COTS) are used as the selection criteria in ranking the software project management tools. The contribution of this work is to apply a well-known decision making procedure in a novel way to help decision makers better identify an appropriate software project management tool without having to go through a more extensive evaluation process. In addition, this work establishes a framework for comparing individual product decisions across projects, project managers, organizational groups, and organizations.
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U2 - 10.1109/SEW.2006.30
DO - 10.1109/SEW.2006.30
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:36749032956
SN - 0769526241
SN - 9780769526249
T3 - Proceedings of the 30th Annual IEEE/NASA Software Engineering Workshop, SEW-30
SP - 76
EP - 82
BT - Proceedings of the 30th Annual IEEE/NASA Software Engineering Workshop, SEW-30
Y2 - 24 April 2006 through 28 April 2006
ER -