Relationship Research Between Communication Activities and Success Indexes in Small and Medium Software Projects

In the field of software developing, project is almost the most common organizational form. But with the enhancement of software products' complexity and the constant change of customers' demand, the importance of communication in software development projects is increasingly prominent.Based on literature review about communication management and software development life cycle, the paper identified 48 communication activities. Then, we did a large-scale questionnaire research and applied SPSS statistic instrument to analyze the relationship between identified communication activities and the success indexes of software project. Finally, we concluded the research results and made correlative suggestions for the software development on the basis of the research result.