An assistant for large scale software project management: Hybrid of agents and semantic web services

Most Software projects fail because the project managers often ignore the previous experiences and are not aware about the best practices. On the other hand, in response to the challenges of globalization and formation of the international teams whose members are distributed on the world; software project management (SPM) environment has been changed since two decade ago. In this paper we present a value chain for SPMpsilas activities adopted from porterpsilas value chain and then we investigate a combination of a multi-agent system and an agent-based semantic web service architecture namely AGORA as a technique to support SPM in a distributed environment.