Augmenting Software Project Managers with Predictions from Machine Learning
Benjamin Schreck, Shankar Mallapur, Sarvesh Damle, Nitin John James, Sanjeev Vohra, Rajendra Prasad, Kalyan K. Veeramachaneni · 2018
Many businesses ("") across industries hire technology service providers ( "providers" ) to develop and maintain software applications. The provider in turn hires a team, distributed across the globe and filling out reports focused on what is happening locally. This results in hundreds of reports covering the provider ’s portfolio of projects, each with dozens of fields. The task of sorting through and making decisions based on the ever-growing volume of data inevitably falls on the shoulders of a project manager.