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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Conference article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - How does acquirer's participation influence performance of software projects
T2 - 25th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE 2013
AU - Wang, Yasha
AU - Wang, Jiangtao
AU - Ma, Jiakuan
AU - Xie, Bing
PY - 2013/1/1
Y1 - 2013/1/1
N2 - In custom software development projects, software acquirer always participates in software development processes acting as collaborator, reviewer or supervisor. The acquirer participation has a significant influence on project performance. In practice, the plans of acquirer participation are often made by project managers according to their personal experience or intuition, and the quality of the plan is difficult to guarantee. Moreover, because of lacking objective evaluation criterion for the plan, it's hard for the acquirer and the supplier to reach an agreement or compromise when they have different opinions. To solve this problem, this paper collects historical data of 25 software projects and establishes a quantitative model of relationship between the acquirer participation and project performance by leveraging a variable-selection-based regression analysis approach. The quantitative model provides guidance for making acquirer participation plans. Furthermore, a review of 9 experienced project managers was conducted to evaluate the model's validity.
AB - In custom software development projects, software acquirer always participates in software development processes acting as collaborator, reviewer or supervisor. The acquirer participation has a significant influence on project performance. In practice, the plans of acquirer participation are often made by project managers according to their personal experience or intuition, and the quality of the plan is difficult to guarantee. Moreover, because of lacking objective evaluation criterion for the plan, it's hard for the acquirer and the supplier to reach an agreement or compromise when they have different opinions. To solve this problem, this paper collects historical data of 25 software projects and establishes a quantitative model of relationship between the acquirer participation and project performance by leveraging a variable-selection-based regression analysis approach. The quantitative model provides guidance for making acquirer participation plans. Furthermore, a review of 9 experienced project managers was conducted to evaluate the model's validity.
KW - Project performance
KW - Quantitative analysis
KW - Software acquirer
KW - Software process
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:84937706761
VL - 2013
SP - 537
EP - 541
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE
JF - Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE
SN - 2325-9000
Y2 - 27 June 2013 through 29 June 2013
ER -