Title :
A DEA evaluation of software project efficiency
Author :
Yang, Zijiang ; Paradi, J.C.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Technol., York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada
Abstract :
Software production has become a focus of major economic activities all over the world. This paper presents an evaluation of 63 software projects in a big Canadian bank using data envelopment analysis (DEA). DEA model was developed to measure software project efficiency focusing on the factors that affect software productivity and suggestions were offered on how DEA could be used to improve their software production metrics. Finally, potential management uses of these DEA results were presented.
Keywords :
banking; data envelopment analysis; project management; software metrics; Canadian bank; DEA evaluation; data envelopment analysis; software production metrics; software productivity; software project efficiency; Best practices; Costs; Data envelopment analysis; Information technology; Measurement standards; Parametric statistics; Particle measurements; Performance analysis; Production; Productivity; data envelopment analysis; efficiency; software project productivity;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 2009. IEEM 2009. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4869-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4870-8
DOI :
10.1109/IEEM.2009.5373148
