Managing cyclical software development

Author

Lattanze, Anthony J. ; Rosso-Llopart, Manuel

Author_Institution

US Flight Test Center, Edwards AFB, CA, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

11-13 Oct 1998

Firstpage

62

Lastpage

70

Abstract

Managing software projects has been compared to herding cats; its not an easy job. Software failures have become rampant in the software engineering industry and many “silver bullets” have been fired at the software beast. Cyclical software development has been shown to have many benefits over traditional software development paradigms. However, successfully managing cyclical software development projects has proven to be a very chaotic and difficult task. Many studies have shown that no other factor has more influence over the success or failure of a software project than the talent of the project manager. This paper presents a method that will help project managers leverage the strengths of cyclical software development, yet maintain a firm managerial grasp on the project

Keywords

project management; software development management; cyclical software development management; project manager; software failures; software project; Computer industry; Government; Mission critical systems; Object oriented modeling; Programming; Project management; Software development management; Software systems; Software testing; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering and Technology Management, 1998. Pioneering New Technologies: Management Issues and Challenges in the Third Millennium. IEMC '98 Proceedings. International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Juan, PR

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5082-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMC.1998.727738

Filename

727738