Management Guideline for Software Development Projects (Public Version)
S. Sengur · Research Repository (Delft University of Technology) · 2015
The needs of companies are evolving and becoming more and more demanding each year, which result in more complex stakeholder relations. The complexity of the projects increases as well. For instance, stakeholders do not always have the same sense of urgencies and their expectations from the same project might differ. Such variety in demand urges project managers to opt for a new; more broaden management approach that includes more human type of issues as well as hard skills. One area this situation is observed in contemporary projects is software development projects with complex stakeholder environment, where the project managers have responsibility to deliver high quality end delivery at the same time to meet the demands of stakeholders with different sense of urgencies. This study aims for answering the research question “How can software projects having unclear requirement definitions and stakeholders with different sense of urgencies can be managed successfully?” The research is proposing a structured set of methodologies with a guideline to professionals and the researchers to manage software development projects having unclear requirement definition and stakeholders with different sense of urgencies.