The Mythical Lines of Code Metric

2022 ◽  
pp. 987-1001
Author(s):  
Charley Tichenor
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Moral Hazard ◽  
Cash Flow ◽  
Software Metrics ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Project Management ◽  
Upper Management ◽  
The Game Theory

Using the lines of code (LOC) metric in software project management can be a financial moral hazard to an organization. This is especially true for upper management who handles an organizational budget and strategic plan. Software project managers have their own budgets. However, if they fail to meet the budget, the organization's cash flow, rather than the project manager's personal cash flow, will suffer. This chapter will discuss the practice of software project management, the field of software metrics, game theory, and the game theory issue of moral hazard. It will demonstrate why using LOC as a metric can present a moral hazard to senior management and an organization.

The Mythical Lines of Code Metric

2018 ◽  
pp. 124-143
Author(s):  
Charley Tichenor
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Moral Hazard ◽  
Cash Flow ◽  
Software Metrics ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Project Management ◽  
Upper Management ◽  
The Game Theory

Using the lines of code (LOC) metric in software project management can be a financial moral hazard to an organization. This is especially true for upper management who handles an organizational budget and strategic plan. Software project managers have their own budgets. However, if they fail to meet the budget, the organization's cash flow, rather than the project manager's personal cash flow, will suffer. This chapter will discuss the practice of software project management, the field of software metrics, game theory, and the game theory issue of moral hazard. It will demonstrate why using LOC as a metric can present a moral hazard to senior management and an organization.

scholarly journals Practitioners’ Perspective on Software Project Management Education

RENOTE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-284
Author(s):  
Maria Lydia Fioravanti ◽  
Antonio Cesar Amaru Maximiano ◽  
Ellen Francine Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Degree Program ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Project Management ◽  
Recent Graduates

Despite Software project management (SPM) being one of the most relevant topicsin the area of software engineering that should be addressed in computing programs, SPM skills of recent graduates are not satisfactory yet. In this context, besides being important to know there are skill deficiencies, we also need to gather specific information on how to adjust and improve the education on the corresponding topics. In this paper we attempt to identify what knowledge deficiencies in SPM can persist after a student graduates from a computing degree program. We surveyed practitioners that graduated and worked as software project managers to gather the knowledge deficiencies from the industry perspective. In general, the results indicated that there is a number of professionals who seeks postgraduate programs to fill the deficiencies of the undergrad programs.

Detecting similarities in antipattern ontologies using semantic social networks: implications for software project management

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios L. Settas ◽  
Sulayman K. Sowe ◽  
Ioannis G. Stamelos
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Project Management ◽  
The Social ◽  
Meta Information

AbstractOntology has been recently proposed as an appropriate formalism to model software project management antipatterns, in order to encode antipatterns in a computer understandable form and introduce antipatterns to the Semantic Web. However, given two antipattern ontologies, the same entity can be described using different terminology. Therefore, the detection of similar antipattern ontologies is a difficult task. In this paper, we introduce a three-layered antipattern semantic social network, which involves the social network, the antipattern ontology network and the concept network. Social Network Analysis (SNA) techniques can be used to assist software project managers in finding similar antipattern ontologies. For this purpose, SNA measures are extracted from one layer of the semantic social network to another and this knowledge is used to infer new links between antipattern ontologies. The level of uncertainty associated with each new link is represented using Bayesian Networks (BNs). Furthermore, BNs address the issue of quantifying the uncertainty of the data collected regarding antipattern ontologies for the purposes of the conducted analysis. Finally, BNs are used to augment SNA by taking into account meta-information in their calculations. Hence, other knowledge not included in the social network can be used in order to search the social network for further inference. The benefits of using an antipattern semantic social network are illustrated using an example community of software project management antipattern ontologies.

SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
Christopher Peterson ◽  
Zenon Chaczko ◽  
Craig Scott ◽  
David Davis
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Project Management
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