Studies on project management models for embedded software development projects

Abstract

In a corporation or the division of a corporation where software is being developed, it is becoming very important to develop software efficiently while guaranteeing the quality, limiting the cost, and maintaining the development schedule[6, 10]. Therefore, the corporation and the division of the corporation that develop software are implementing various improvement methods, including process improvement[7, 11, 13]. In this study we have analyzed data from a software development project and studied how to determine which software development project will fail because it takes more manpower that originally estimated. In addition, we have implemented project-management support tools by combining the project-monitoring and managing tools that are already in use. We have also developed a new model that uses the statistical method, by reviewing the tools that are already used to estimate manpower for new projects. © 2006 IEEE.