A Framework for Linking Projects and Project Management Methods

Tony Dale

MSc Student, Dept. CSSE, University of Canterbury

Fri Sep 22 15:10:00 NZST 2006 in Room 031, MSCS

Abstract

Software development processes such as the Waterfall process and Extreme Programming are project management methods (PMMs) which are well known and widely used. However, conventional project management (PM) lacks the process concepts expressed in PMMs, and the connection between PMMs and PM is not much explored in the literature.

We present data models for PM and PMM, in a framework that can articulate the PM-to-PMM relationship. A java/XML implementation of this framework can create and then revise a "PMM-aware" project, conforming to a specified PMM.