An Integrated Environment to Support Project Management in VSEs

Abstract

Small software development companies need to have simple but useful tools in order to perform an efficient management of their projects and become more productive in their daily work. From the demand of four small software development companies, clustered in a joint process improvement programme for the implementation of the ISO/IEC 29110 standard, we selected, proposed and agreed a set of software tools to support both collaborative work and project management tasks. In this paper, an integrated environment for project management that brings together a set of tools supporting some of the PMBOK® Guide good practices is presented. This environment is composed of both transversal tools, such as office suites, social bookmarking services or virtual storage services, and specific applications for managing project scope, time and communications. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014.