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Measuring Change in Software Projects Through an Earned Value Lens

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Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination (SPICE 2018)

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Abstract

Earned Value Management (EVM) is a common performance management tool for project management. EVM enables depicting the project progress in terms of scope, cost and schedule and provides future predictions based on trends and patterns. Even though EVM is widely used in various disciplines like manufacturing and construction, it is not common in software industry. One reason for this underutilization is the mismatch of an inherent nature of the software projects and the traditional EVM. Traditional EVM ignores change effort but it is predominant in software projects. We have developed cEVM as an extension to the traditional EVM to incorporate change and subsequent rework and evolution costs to measure earned value in software development projects more accurately. In this study, we focus on two applications of cEVM we performed to explore the usability of cEVM and to compare cEVM with traditional EVM. This paper discusses the results of the case studies as well as benefits and difficulties of cEVM.

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  1. Bilgi Grubu Ltd., Ankara, Turkey

    Pinar Efe

  2. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    Onur Demirors

  3. Department of Computer Engineering, Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey

    Onur Demirors & Boualem Benetallah

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  1. Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

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  2. School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Rory V. O'Connor

  3. Software Quality institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Terry Rout

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Efe, P., Demirors, O., Benetallah, B. (2018). Measuring Change in Software Projects Through an Earned Value Lens. In: Stamelos, I., O'Connor, R., Rout, T., Dorling, A. (eds) Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination. SPICE 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 918. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00623-5_14

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