Title :
Managing cyclical software development
Author :
Lattanze, Anthony J. ; Rosso-Llopart, Manuel
Author_Institution :
US Flight Test Center, Edwards AFB, CA, USA
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/IEMC.1998.727738
