Project support and IPSEs [software engineering management]

The successful completion of a project can be briefly defined as the development of a product on time, within budget and which meets the customer´s requirements for functionality, reliability and quality. The methods available to overcome the problems presented by the task of managing the development of a large and complex system are threefold: define the project process for all the technical engineering disciplines involved also including project management, quality assurance and configuration management; establish the organisation to match the process and support it making the most effective use of real feedback, enabled by the explicit definition of the process, to control the project; and use tools to do the work within the structured process more efficiently by automating the tasks and supporting the process, i.e. IPSE