期刊名称：Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management
印刷版ISSN：1555-1229
电子版ISSN：1555-1237
出版年度：2007
卷号：2
页码：149-162
出版社：Informing Science Institute
摘要：Despite various research efforts originating from both academia and industry, software projects
have a high rate of failure, more specific, software projects often do not comply with the tradi-
tional standard measurements of success, namely time, cost and requirements specification.
Thus, there is a need for new methods and measures to support the software project management
process.
Globalisation and advances in computing technologies has changed the software project man-
agement environment. Currently software projects are developed and deployed in distributed,
pervasive and collaborative environments and traditional project management methods cannot,
and do not, address the added complexities inherent to this environment.
In this paper the utilisation of stationary and mobile software agents is investigated as a potential
tool to assist with the improvement of software project management processes. In particular we
propose and discuss a software agent framework to support software project management. Al-
though still in its initial phases, this research shows promise of significant results in enabling
software developers to meet market expectations, and produce projects on time, within budget
and to users!ˉ satisfaction.
Keywords: Software Project Management, Software Agent Technology, Project Scope Man-
agement, Project Time management, Project Cost Management, Project Quality Management,
Project Risk Management, Project Communication Management, Project Human Resource
Management, Project Procurement Management,
