Objective
The business idea of Mente Systemutvikling AS is to offer consultancy software development and software systems for the fishing industry. Projects getting out of control causing enormous internal costs in order to gain control has resulted in low profit from development projects.
Appropriate cost estimates based on better requirement specifications is expected to increase control and profitability. The project is expected to reduce overrun time by 30%.
Similar problems are common among software companies in Norway and Europe. The results and the lessons learned will be of relevance to all software companies coping with the same kind of problems.
THE EXPERIMENT
The technical aim of the experiment is to improve the quality of the requirement specifications which the cost estimates are based upon. The method for cost estimation is also going to be improved. This will secure the business goal which is to make a profitable business on consultancy software development.
Existing routines will be evaluated, new routines will be developed before they will be implemented in the organisation. The new routines will be used in a baseline project to gain experience and to measure their effect. The baseline application is likely to be a project developing solutions for the alimentation industry.
The company has 6 employed software developers, in addition the general manager takes part in planning and preparation of the projects and also some of the project administration.
EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCE
The expected results are: 30% reduction of total overrun time and 20% reduction of financial loss caused by overrunning cost estimates and missing milestones. The experiment is expected to have a positive impact on the organisation and the software development cycle.
By successful completion of the PIE the next step will be continuous improvement of issues related to software development that are defined as critical. It is very likely that testing and verification will be the next area to put focus on.
No barriers or reluctances are seen within the organisation. Reluctances are only met among other software organisations unable to see what a very small enterprise can achieve by going trough a project like this.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries fisheries
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software software applications system software
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software software development
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Norway
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