TAMRI: A Tool for Supporting Task Distribution in Global Software Development Projects

Author

Lamersdorf, Ansgar ; Münch, Jürgen

Author_Institution

Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

13-16 July 2009

Firstpage

322

Lastpage

327

Abstract

The distribution of tasks to sites is one central activity in global software development project planning. Due to the large number of assignment possibilities, tool support seems to be adequate for supporting the evaluation and selection of task assignments. We present TAMRI, a planning tool for identifying task assignments based on multiple criteria and weighted project goals. Its implementation combines a distributed systems approach with Bayesian networks. The tool can be adapted to specific organizational environments by exchanging the underlying Bayesian network. The article presents an overview of task distribution approaches, gives three application scenarios for the tool, and shows the implementation of the tool as well as its application in the scenarios.

Keywords

belief networks; planning (artificial intelligence); project management; software tools; Bayesian networks; TAMRI; assignment possibilities; distributed systems; global software development project planning; supporting task distribution; task assignments; tool support; Bayesian methods; Costs; Cultural differences; Humans; Logistics; Process planning; Programming; Project management; Software engineering; Tag clouds;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Software Engineering, 2009. ICGSE 2009. Fourth IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Limerick

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3710-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICGSE.2009.50

Filename

5196954