An ameliorated methodology for the identification of project activities of software development projects

Abstract

Nowadays, the software projects are buzz words in all walks of life. So the au-courant software projects are much complex than earlier projects. The strategic management of the developer organization cannot grasp the entire task of the project by mere software requirements specification and project input. To facilitate the current projects, the software developers use the project management activities proposed by project management institute US. This doesn't ossify completely the software development projects as scope of these activities limited to managerial activities. Even these managerial activities are not suitable for software project activities as these projects have notable differences with other types of projects. Some of the project activities are not suitable for software projects. These unsuitable activities are either to be modified or replaced by other activities to maintain the completeness of managerial activities.. In addition to managerial activities, for any project the project specific technical activities play key roles in shaping the project. The project specific technical activities cannot be generalized but however a methodology to identify technical activities is urgent need for today's software projects. This paper attempts to develop a methodology to abstract project specific technical activities from the project objectives and the input. In this proposed methodology, in addition to abstraction of technical activities, we have developed an implicit technique to identify scope of the literature survey and also provided with the option of optimizing the technical activities.