Integrated and Decentralized Project Management

• Autor(a) principal: Barbosa, Xavier da Rocha
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/22688
• topic: Project Management; Tool integration; Software Development

Software has become a prominent aspect of the modern world, as it is present and constantly aids people in their daily lives. Consequently, the software development industry has grown in size and competitiveness. Software companies, more than ever, need to keep the best practices for quick and efficient delivery, low maintenance, and overall better profit to succeed in such market. For this very reason, several project management techniques have been developed and put into practice over the years. Nevertheless, its utmost focus has to generate effective arranging of resources and tasks and turn it into the desired end product. Moreover, the selection of an adequate management techniques (taking into account the company and the project’s background) allows the result to better fit into the defined requirements and objectives and improve workflow and productivity along the way. However, the software development field and the project management itself became complex, containing several steps, rules, and involved parties. All this can lead to unorganized data, and an easy disruption of the management workflow. These problems, not only depend on the company’s culture but also on the multiple tools used to ensure proper planning and coordination. Thus, the correct and justified integration to other company’s tools create a synergistic environment from which the firm would benefit. In other words, the integration of specialized systems would enable a better project management - as not only the relevant and necessary information would be up-to-date throughout all systems, but also, workload would be correctly distributed by all employees. This report demonstrates a possible approach to this problem and describes the several phases to achieve the solution - from requirements gathering, analysis and research, and the design and development of a software project management system. Subsequently, the conceptualized solution is based in the current project management application used in Armis. However, it now integrates with the company’s customer relationship management application, as well as the financial software. Moreover, it provides a better, more controlled and organized sequence of actions of the management processes. The developed application comprises of a proof of concept based on the conceptualized solution. It was later evaluated and tested to assess its suitability and conformity with the proposed goals.