Performance measure of project management automation tool based on DevOps selection criteria for a general purpose software system

Abstract

DevOps, a cluster of tools to automate the tasks of building, testing and releasing the software, intends to optimize the end to end delivery lifecycle of software by eliminating the bottlenecks of each and every stage of development. This research paper presents the performance measure of different tools in the project planning and management phase of software development. Diverse tools exist for each and every phase of the development and depending on the outcome of the evaluation or selection criteria, tool with highest score is being chosen. This paper measures the performance of alternative project management tools viz. Jira, Trello, Leankit, AgileCraft based on these evaluation or selection criteria. To execute the underlying research work, a six-point scaling table is defined. The table measures the performance of project management automation tools and realizing their competence level score. This performance measure or the outcome as competence level score will be useful for the researchers or software developers to contemplate the best project management automation tool typically before making a decision about tool selection.