Efficient Collaborative Task Arrangement in Global Software Design via Micro-Estimation and PERT Technique

Communication delay and globally task arrangement should be well considered during distributed software design. Though the software design is a kind of creative work and there are reworks almost all the cases, as a result, the duration and even the task sequence is undetermined. Micro-estimation on demand, which we proposed in the former paper, refines the estimation of effort and duration for the tasks in the next short period. This paper is intended to present our solution to reschedule the design tasks among distributed software design teams, which includes multiple component status transition graph (MCSTG), micro-estimation and PERT technique. The schedule risk in such environment will be analyzed and the solution will focus on how to improve the time-to-market. With the solution presented, the designers may fasten their collaboration in global software design.