A CASE STUDY ON SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN INDUSTRY – EXPERIENCES AND CONCLUSIONS

In this paper we present and discuss the findings of two case studies on software project management in industrial software development projects and the conclusions drawn from it. These studies were motivated to improve software project management capabilities. First, we describe how these studies were organized and performed. In the main part we present our findings and conclusions showing that there are strong deficits in project management quality. Based on these findings we briefly describe the structure of an improvement program aiming to remove or reduce those deficits.