Software project control: an experimental investigation of judgmentwith fallible information
Abdel-Hamid, T.K.
Sengupta, K.
Ronan, D.
Dept. of Adm. Sci., US Naval Postgraduate Sch., Monterey, CA;
This paper appears in: Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
Publication Date: Jun 1993
Volume: 19,
Issue: 6
On page(s): 603-612
ISSN: 0098-5589
References Cited: 28
CODEN: IESEDJ
INSPEC Accession Number: 4526002
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/32.232025
Current Version Published: 2002-08-06
Abstract
Software project management is becoming an increasingly critical
task in many organizations. While the macro-level aspects of project
planning and control have been addressed extensively, there is a serious
lack of research on the micro-empirical analysis of individual decision
making behavior. The heuristics deployed to cope with the problems of
poor estimation and poor visibility that hamper software project
planning and control are investigated, and the implications for software
project management are examined. A laboratory experiment in which
subjects managed a simulated software development project is reviewed.
The subjects were given project status information at different stages
of the lifecycle and had to assess software productivity in order to
dynamically readjust project plans. A conservative anchoring and
adjustment heuristic is shown to explain the subjects' decisions quite
well. Implications for software project planning and control are
presented
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