Measuring financial and business operation impacts, of software project initiatives and investments, using project tracking markpoints on the project volume
Part of : WSEAS transactions on business and economics ; Vol.6, No.10, 2009, pages 523-532
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523-532
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Measuring the size of a project has always been a challenge in all the disciplines involved in projectmanagement. In software project management, defining a measurement unit for a project is even more difficult sincethe unique characteristics of the software make it invisible and untouchable, and therefore much more difficult to bemeasured. This paper presents a model that can contribute towards this issue. The MarkPoint presented can beconsidered as a sizing and measurement unit to a software project. The MarkPoints are based on the requirements of aproject where their initial weighted distribution per requirement, implementation phase and other project elementsmakes the project size needed for the management of the project. The paper initially states the need for such models inthe business world and defines the excepted environment for them to be applied successfully. The model and theoverall concept is approach from a business and financial perspective, since it’s a business oriented approach driven bybusiness needs and expectations in managing software project and investments.
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software economics, project management, project tracking, software sizing, project volume metrics
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