Objective
As steel producers with a growing business, we are increasingly developing new services, products and relationships with customers, as a consequence of this, we have to develop and implement new and specialised software in order to meet new requirements. Nowadays, whenever there is a new customer or a new line of business, the steel production process should be adapted and also new software should be developed to cope with new suppliers strategies, just-in-time requirements, stock handling and so on.
Our interest in this PIE is quite clear, if we are not able to produce software in the same controlled manner as we produce steel components, we will hinder the business development of the company and we will not be able to support its growth. With the realisation of this PIE we will plant the first step towards having a software development process as controlled as we have the production of steel.
THE EXPERIMENT
The objective of the experiment is then to implement a Software Project Management System, meaning by that the introduction of a method to plan, control and track software projects, with the help of suitable tools. The idea is to implement a method that involves not only the software development department, but the business users (internal clients) as well as the external clients.
The Software Projects Management System (PROMASYS) will be implemented, tested and refined while developing a major set of improvements to the logistics and production management system. Although this project is very critical giving the fact that it will allow us to be more flexible when opening a new line of business or establishing a relationship with a new client it does not have an external deadline or suffer from day-to-day pressures. This will allow us not to focus only in developing the functionality, but also in the process of developing that functionality.
Based on this baseline project, the implementation of the project management system to be done during the experiment will have two sides:
1) The implementation of an organisational structure to organise roles and responsibilities.
2) The implementation of the appropriate Methods and Tools of the Project management System.
EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCE
By implementing the Project Management System, we expect to be able to:
Estimate the size of projects and the sub-products to be obtained during development.
Accurately plan and schedule the work to be done. (with a maximum deviation of 15%)
Establish beforehand the resources and skills required.
Establish attainable commitments with internal and external clients.
Provide the management with a way to periodically review and track the progress of software projects.
Have a way to measure the success of Software Development Projects in terms of cost, schedule, performance and quality.
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Spain
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