DEFINING THE IMPLEMENTATION ORDER OF SOFTWARE PROJECTS IN UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS

Eber Assis Schmitz, Antonio Juarez Alencar, Marcelo C. Fernandes, Carlos Mendes de Azevedo

2008

Abstract

In the competitive world in which we live, where every business opportunity not taken is an opportunity handed to competitors, software developers have distanced themselves, in both language and values, from those who define the requirements that software has to satisfy and come up with the money that funds its development process. Such a distance helps to reduce or, in some cases, completely eliminate the competitive advantage that software development may provide to an organization; transforming this value creation activity into a business cost that is better kept low and under tight control. This article proposes a method for obtaining the optimal implementation order of software units in an information technology development project. This method, which uses a combination of heuristic procedures and Monte Carlo simulation, takes into consideration the fact that software development is generally carried out under cost and investment constraints in an uncertain environment, whose proper analysis indicate how to obtain the best possible return on investment. The article shows that decisions made under uncertainty may be substantially different from those made in a risk-free environment.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Assis Schmitz E., Juarez Alencar A., C. Fernandes M. and Mendes de Azevedo C. (2008). DEFINING THE IMPLEMENTATION ORDER OF SOFTWARE PROJECTS IN UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-38-8, pages 23-29. DOI: 10.5220/0001670200230029

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis08,
author={Eber Assis Schmitz and Antonio Juarez Alencar and Marcelo C. Fernandes and Carlos Mendes de Azevedo},
title={DEFINING THE IMPLEMENTATION ORDER OF SOFTWARE PROJECTS IN UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={23-29},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001670200230029},
isbn={978-989-8111-38-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS,
TI - DEFINING THE IMPLEMENTATION ORDER OF SOFTWARE PROJECTS IN UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS
SN - 978-989-8111-38-8
AU - Assis Schmitz E.
AU - Juarez Alencar A.
AU - C. Fernandes M.
AU - Mendes de Azevedo C.
PY - 2008
SP - 23
EP - 29
DO - 10.5220/0001670200230029