Constructing a chaos proofing pre-development framework to manage chaos in a chaos-prone systems development environment

Author

Othman, Marini ; Zin, Abdullah Mohd ; Hamdan, Abdul Razak

Author_Institution

Coll. of IT, Univ. Tenaga Nasional, Tenaga

fYear

2008

fDate

8-11 July 2008

Firstpage

748

Lastpage

753

Abstract

When plans are disrupted to accommodate changes in a software development project, the environment becomes unstable. This brings about chaos. ldquoChaosrdquo is real and we need to deal with it. This research is based on the premise that 1. Chaos has a pattern, and that it is possible to learn this pattern and 2. If we are able to measure chaos, we will be able to better manage the situation brought by chaos. This paper put forth a list of chaos triggers based on findings from a case study of a chaos-prone system development project based in Malaysia. Lessons learned based on findings from a focus-group depth interview leads to the construction of a pre development framework to chaos-proof system development environment.

Keywords

software engineering; theorem proving; chaos proofing predevelopment framework; chaos-prone systems development environment; software development project; Chaos; Educational institutions; Environmental management; Government; Information science; Marine technology; Programming; Project management; Software development management; Technology management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Information Technology, 2008. CIT 2008. 8th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2357-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2358-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIT.2008.4594768

Filename

4594768