Objective
ICL Data Oy is a major software systems integrator, and one of the leading suppliers of client-server, Internet, and Intranet based systems in Finland. Within the company, custom software and applications are being developed by approximately 400 people. In addition to small and medium sized upgrades for existing systems, approximately fifty substantial customer projects are completed each year. Therefore, ability to increase the efficiency and productivity of the software development processes is of key importance for the future success of the company. The objective of the IntraSupport PIE is to improve the management of custom software development projects conducted within ICL Professional Services. In this PIE, therefore, special emphasis is on the management of project schedules and the estimation of work efforts of individual tasks in software development projects.
THE EXPERIMENT
Within the Baseline project, a customised Data Warehouse application for executive reporting and decision making will be developed. The system will include (1) an object-oriented database management module, (2) an interface module to external databases and (3) a reporting and graphical user interface module. The Data Warehouse application will be developed according to customer requirements, and the Baseline project will include the entire development life-cycle, from the requirements definition phase to the final installation and acceptance testing phases. Within the Experiment, based on data from prior similar projects, management of the Baseline project will be improved through defining and implementing project management related document templates for defining detailed schedules and work effort estimates for the different phases of development. Project management related templates will be developed, e.g. for the acquisition of customer requirements, for defining the system requirements and system architecture, for quality assurance, for configuration management, for testing, and for taking the system into use.
EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCE
The anticipated benefits from the PIE will come from improving the process along the following dimensions: (1) timetable predictability, (2) work effort predictability, (3) productivity, and (4) ease of use of project management methodologies. An improved SW engineering process with document templates and a common structure of activities and controls are seen as a way to improve the overall predictability of projects. Intranet is seen as a platform for distributing and maintaining the process across several divisions in an effective way.
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.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternet
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabases
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssystem software
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware development
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity
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ACM - Preparatory, accompanying and support measuresCoordinator
00101 Helsinki
Finland