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How to improve the quality of software engineering project management

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Marjan Krašna,

Bruno StiglicAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 23, Issue 3

Pages 120 - 125

https://doi.org/10.1145/279437.279490

Published: 01 May 1998 Publication History

Abstract

Every project, including software engineering projects, start with the project plan. A project plan means the prediction of future events with the goal of minimizing the risk during execution of the project. The heart of the problem is to make the project plan as close to reality as possible. Ideally, it should be exactly the same as the post project measured data. In the end we always encounter the problem of "the perfect project plan". Does a perfect project plan exist? If it does not exist, can we be any better than we are now? In the article we will show that we can improve, but the perfect project plan is still somewhere in the future.

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Hussain SRashid KAhmad HHussain S(2007)Effective software managementProceedings of the 6th WSEAS International Conference on Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Systems10.5555/1353801.1353804(13-18)Online publication date: 16-Feb-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1353801.1353804

Index Terms

How to improve the quality of software engineering project management
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
      2. Software management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 23, Issue 3

May 1998

129 pages

ISSN:0163-5948

DOI:10.1145/279437

Editor:
Will Tracz
Lockheed Martin Federal Systems, Owego, NY

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Hussain SRashid KAhmad HHussain S(2007)Effective software managementProceedings of the 6th WSEAS International Conference on Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Systems10.5555/1353801.1353804(13-18)Online publication date: 16-Feb-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1353801.1353804

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