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Human Resource Allocation in Agile Software Projects Based on Task Similarities

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Search Based Software Engineering (SSBSE 2016)

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Abstract

The definition of which task should be assigned to each member of a team is a relevant issue on the software project management. This decision is complex because it involves a high number of variables, such as different levels of employee skills and several characteristics of each task. Thus, we propose a multi-objective approach aims at minimizing the time and cost of a software project through the allocation of suited and similar tasks to employees. In addition, we conducted a preliminary empirical study to investigate the performance of NSGA-II, MOCell and random search. Preliminary results suggest the approach is useful for allocating human resources in software projects.

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    We consider as human resource the different types of professionals involved in the software project such as developers, analysts, external collaborators, etc. However, for the sake of simplicity, we will refer to these human resources as employees.

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  1. Optimization in Software Engineering Group, State University of Ceará, Dr. Silas Munguba Avenue, 1700 - 60, Fortaleza, 714-903, Brazil

    Lucas Roque, Allysson Allex Araújo, Altino Dantas, Raphael Saraiva & Jerffeson Souza

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  1. University College London, London, United Kingdom

    Federica Sarro

  2. Michigan State University , East Lansing, Michigan, USA

    Kalyanmoy Deb

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Roque, L., Araújo, A.A., Dantas, A., Saraiva, R., Souza, J. (2016). Human Resource Allocation in Agile Software Projects Based on Task Similarities. In: Sarro, F., Deb, K. (eds) Search Based Software Engineering. SSBSE 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9962. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47106-8_25

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