TOWARDS MODELING LARGE SCALE PROJECT EXECUTION MONITORING - Project Status Model

Ciprian-Leontin Stanciu, Dacian Tudor, Vladimir-Ioan Creţu

2010

Abstract

Software projects are problematic considering their high overruns in terms of execution time and budget. In large scale projects, the monitoring activity is a very difficult task, due to the very complex relation between resources and constraints, and must be based on a well established methodology. The outputs of the monitoring process refer mostly to the current status of the project, which must be reflected as accurate as possible. We propose a model for project status determination. This is a sub-model of a future monitoring model subject of our current research. The project status model not only considers the perspective of the project manager, which defines the macro-universe of the project, but also the perspective of every worker involved in the project, who can be seen as manager of their assigned tasks, which defines the micro-universe of the worker.

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Stanciu C., Tudor D. and Creţu V. (2010). TOWARDS MODELING LARGE SCALE PROJECT EXECUTION MONITORING - Project Status Model . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8425-22-5, pages 36-41. DOI: 10.5220/0003009100360041


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft10,
author={Ciprian-Leontin Stanciu and Dacian Tudor and Vladimir-Ioan Creţu},
title={TOWARDS MODELING LARGE SCALE PROJECT EXECUTION MONITORING - Project Status Model},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2010},
pages={36-41},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003009100360041},
isbn={978-989-8425-22-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - TOWARDS MODELING LARGE SCALE PROJECT EXECUTION MONITORING - Project Status Model
SN - 978-989-8425-22-5
AU - Stanciu C.
AU - Tudor D.
AU - Creţu V.
PY - 2010
SP - 36
EP - 41
DO - 10.5220/0003009100360041