A monitoring framework for software project development

Software project development includes a number of activities that result in a delivered product (software). As software becomes more and more expensive to develop, monitoring is an important task for project development and has been recognized as a difficult task in practice. There are many unpredictable factors existing in the software development cycle that have become contributing factors to this problem. This paper gives an overview of the present state of the art of the software development projects. Moreover, a monitoring framework is proposed to help project management to get better understanding and make all activities running on schedule.