Category: CESAW
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Number of projects worked on concurrently
Developers working for companies whose business is project based are often involved with multiple projects at the same time. If one project is held up, they have other projects to work on (reducing days when there is no project for them to book their time to). How many software projects might a developer be working…
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Detailed management data on 1,211 software projects
Until April this year there were only two non-trivial publicly available software project datasets (i.e., Sip and CESAW) containing software project data relating to human effort, e.g., people time, elapsed time, and tasks performed. The SiP data contains 10-years of software development tasks by one company, and the CESAW data contains the tasks involved in…
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Projects are worked on in fits and starts
Companies whose business is designing, developing, and maintaining custom software applications (i.e., a software house) have the difficult job of keeping their expensive employees busy with paying work. Work on an existing project may be held up for various reasons, and the start date of new projects is invariably uncertain. A solution to the on/off…