The Optimization Research on the Human Resource Allocation Planning in Software Projects

This paper proposes an optimal model of human resource allocation at the planning stage of software projects. Considering the different human resources demands required by different tasks and the characteristics of different human resources roles, this model realized the goal of assigning different team members to different tasks at the least cost under the conditions of satisfying the resource demand of tasks and the constraint of effort of different stages, which is based on accurate estimation by the information available at the planning stage. A genetic algorithm is then designed to solve this complex problem. At last, an example is given to verify the model. The results show the feasibility and high efficiency of the model.