Open AccessSoftware metrics to predict the health of a project?
Author(s) -
Vincent Blondeau,
Nicolas Anquetil,
Sté́phane Ducasse,
Sylvain Cresson,
Pascal Croisy
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
hal (le centre pour la communication scientifique directe)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.1145/2811237.2811294
Subject(s) - software project management , project manager , computer science , software , outcome (game theory) , software metric , project management , software engineering , software development , data science , process management , risk analysis (engineering) , engineering management , engineering , software quality , software construction , systems engineering , business , mathematics , mathematical economics , programming language
International audienceMore and more companies would like to mine software data with the goal of assessing the health of their software projects. The hope is that some software metrics could be tracked to predict failure risks or confirm good health. If a factor of success was found, projects failures could be anticipated and early actions could be taken by the organisation to help or to monitor closely the project, allowing one to act in a preventive mode rather than a curative one. We were called by a major IT company to fulfil this goal. We conducted a study to check whether software metrics can be related to project failure. The study was both theoretic with a review of literature on the subject, and practical with mining past projects data and interviews with project managers. We found that metrics used in practice are not reliable to assess project outcome
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