Using agents for distributed software project management

Author

O´Connor, Rory ; Jenkins, John

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Applications, Dublin City Univ., Ireland

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

54

Lastpage

60

Abstract

The paper explores the role of artificial intelligence techniques in the development of an enhanced software project management tool, which takes account of the emerging requirement for support systems to address the increasing trend towards distributed multi-platform software development projects. In addressing these aims this research devised a novel architecture and framework for use as the basis of an intelligent assistance system for use by software project managers, in the planning and managing of a software project. This paper also describes the construction of a prototype system to implement this architecture and the results of a series of user trials on this prototype system

Keywords

groupware; project management; project support environments; software agents; software development management; artificial intelligence techniques; distributed multi-platform software development; distributed software project management; intelligent assistance system; planning; project management tool; software agents; software project managers; Computer applications; Decision making; Electrical capacitance tomography; Knowledge management; Project management; Prototypes; Risk management; Software development management; Software prototyping; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 1999. (WET ICE '99) Proceedings. IEEE 8th International Workshops on

Conference_Location

Stanford, CA

ISSN

1080-1383

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0365-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ENABL.1999.805175

Filename

805175