A project engineering tool to assist in the development and maintenance of project life cycles

Author

Chandrashekar, S. ; Mayfield, B. ; Samadzadeh, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

3-5 Apr 1991

Firstpage

119

Lastpage

122

Abstract

The paper discusses the existing problems in developing and maintaining project life cycles and proposes a tool as a possible solution. This tool is part of an integrated tool set, called Project Engineer, which has been designed to support the maintenance of software projects from a project management perspective. A PC platform is chosen and the user interface is based on Microsoft Windows 3.0. One module is selected for discussion and demonstration of the concept: the Life Cycle Builder. The purpose of this module is to manipulate project life cycles and templates. Project Engineer uses Multiple Document Interface, which is an IBM SAA/CUA standard provided by Microsoft Windows 3.0. It also uses the objects, properties, roles, and relationships (OPRR) based data engine. Each module in Project Engineer is internally independent of the other modules. Coordination among the modules is provided by the OPRR project database engine

Keywords

project engineering; project support environments; software tools; IBM SAA/CUA standard; Life Cycle Builder; Microsoft Windows 3.0; Multiple Document Interface; OPRR project database engine; Project Engineer; integrated tool set; project engineering tool; project life cycles; project management; software project maintenance; templates; user interface; Computer aided software engineering; Displays; Electric breakdown; Engines; Programming; Project engineering; Project management; Scheduling; Software maintenance; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Computing, 1991., [Proceedings of the 1991] Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kansas City, MO

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2136-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOAC.1991.143858

Filename

143858