Significance of Software Metrics in ERP Projects

Author

Parthasarathy, S. ; Anbazhagan, N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Thiagarajar Coll. of Eng., Madurai

fYear

2006

fDate

Sept. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Software engineering metrics are units of measurement that are used to characterize the software engineering products and processes. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a generic term for integrated systems. ERP projects are a subclass of software projects often accompanied by large-scale organizational changes. One of the major reasons found in the literature for the failure of ERP projects is the poor management of software processes. In this paper, we propose a software metrics plan (SMP) containing different software metrics to manage software processes during ERP implementation. Two hypotheses have been formulated and tested using statistical techniques to validate the SMP. The statistical analysis of the collected data from an ERP project supports the two hypotheses, leading to the conclusion that the software metrics are momentous in ERP projects

Keywords

enterprise resource planning; project management; software management; software metrics; software process improvement; statistical analysis; ERP projects; enterprise resource planning; organizational changes; software engineering products; software metrics plan; software process management; software projects; statistical analysis; Engineering management; Enterprise resource planning; Large-scale systems; Management information systems; Project management; Scheduling; Software engineering; Software measurement; Software metrics; Software quality; Enterprise resource planning (ERP); software metrics; software process improvement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

India Conference, 2006 Annual IEEE

Conference_Location

New Delhi

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0369-3

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0370-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INDCON.2006.302776

Filename

4086247