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Adapting the SPMSA (Software Project Management Supported by Software Agents) Model to PMBOK2004 Guidelines

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Visioning and Engineering the Knowledge Society. A Web Science Perspective (WSKS 2009)

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Numerous software development projects either do not live up to expectations or they fail outright. The scope, environment and implementation of software projects are changing due to globalisation, advances in computing technologies as well as the deployment of software projects in distributed, collaborative and virtual environments. As a result, traditional project management methods fail to address the added complexities found in this ever-changing environment. The authors proposed the software project management model, entitled SPMSA (Software Project Management Supported by Software Agents) that aims to enhance software project management by taking the unique nature and changing environment of software projects into account. The SPMSA model supports the entire spectrum of software project management functionality, supporting and enhancing each key function with a team of software agents. In this paper the authors adapt the SPMSA model to incorporate PMBOK2004 guidelines. The SPMSA model makes a fresh contribution to enhance software project management by utilising software agent technology.

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  1. School of Computing, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

    Rita Nienaber & Elmé Smith

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Open Research Society, NGO, and American College of Greece, Gerakas Attikis, Greece

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  2. Dipartemento Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, Via Bramante 65, 26013, Crema, Italy

    Ernesto Damiani

  3. College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

    John M. Carroll

  4. College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

    Robert D. Tennyson

  5. ESSEC Business School, Cergy Pontoise Cedex, France

    David Avison

  6. KMR group at NADA/KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Lindstedtsv. 5, 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

    Ambjörn Naeve

  7. Creatifica Associates, Chelveston, Wellingborough, UK

    Adrian Dale

  8. University of Tampere, Finland

    Paul Lefrere

  9. School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Private Bag 92006, 1020, Auckland, New Zealand

    Felix Tan

  10. School of Business, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA

    Janice Sipior

  11. European Research Center for Information Systems, University of Münster, Leonardo Campus 3, 48149, Münster, Germany

    Gottfried Vossen

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Nienaber, R., Smith, E. (2009). Adapting the SPMSA (Software Project Management Supported by Software Agents) Model to PMBOK2004 Guidelines. In: Lytras, M.D., et al. Visioning and Engineering the Knowledge Society. A Web Science Perspective. WSKS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5736. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04754-1_46

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