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A case study on the success of introducing general non-construction activities for project management and planning improvement

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Jarmo J. AhonenAuthors Info & Claims

PROFES'06: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

Pages 151 - 165

https://doi.org/10.1007/11767718_15

Published: 12 June 2006 Publication History

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The creation of a proper work breakdown structure (WBS) is essential in performing successful project effort estimation and project management. The use of WBS is required on the level 1 of CMMI. There is, however, no standard WBS available. In this paper, the results of a pilot project in which new activities were introduced into the TietoEnator's WBS are reported. The activities were non-construction activities which are necessary but not directly related to the actual software construction. The study shows that the success of the introduction of such activities very much depends on the naming of the activities and how they are introduced to the employees. Additionally, it turned out that the pre-thought set of non-construction activities included activities that should not have been in the set at all as individual activities.

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Ahonen JSavolainen P(2010)Software engineering projects may fail before they are startedJournal of Systems and Software10.1016/j.jss.2010.06.02383:11(2175-2187)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jss.2010.06.023
Savolainen P(2010)Vague project start makes project success of outsourced software development projects uncertainProceedings of the 11th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement10.1007/978-3-642-13792-1_27(351-365)Online publication date: 21-Jun-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-13792-1_27

A case study on the success of introducing general non-construction activities for project management and planning improvement
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    1. Management of computing and information systems
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management

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PROFES'06: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

June 2006

473 pages

ISBN:3540346821

Editors:
Jürgen Münch
Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Fraunhofer-Platz 1, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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Matias Vierimaa
VTT Electronics, Kaitovayla 1, Oulu, Finland

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Ahonen JSavolainen P(2010)Software engineering projects may fail before they are startedJournal of Systems and Software10.1016/j.jss.2010.06.02383:11(2175-2187)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jss.2010.06.023
Savolainen P(2010)Vague project start makes project success of outsourced software development projects uncertainProceedings of the 11th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement10.1007/978-3-642-13792-1_27(351-365)Online publication date: 21-Jun-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-13792-1_27

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