A new approach for continuously monitoring project deadlines in software development
Thomas Fehlmann, Eberhard Kranich · 2017
Checking regularly the progress of a running entire software development project or parts of it is a mandatory task of project management. The purpose of progress checks is to monitor whether an actual project will be completed successfully at the project deadline at the latest. It is common practice to track and to communicate project progress by burn charts, especially by burn-up charts in the case when the amount of work varies by, e.g., scope creep during the time line of the project. This paper shows that a burn-up chart continuously adapted by means of a specific rule and combined with a Bayesian Approach to the German tank problem leads to an efficient tool for project progress monitoring.