A Systematic Review on the Integration of Project Management with Organizational Flows

Software projects are very dynamic and require recurring adjustments of their project plans. These settings can be understood as reconfigurations in the schedule, in the resources allocation and other design elements. Yet, during t he planning and execution of a software project, the integration of specific activities in the projects with the activities that take part in he organization’s common activity flow should be considered. This art icle presents the results from a systematic review of aspects related to software projects’ dynamic reconfiguration emphasizing the i ntegration of project management with the organizational flows. A series of studies was analyzed from the year 2000 to the present. The results of this work show that there is a diversity of techniques a nd strategies for dynamic reconfiguration of software projects’. Howe ver, few approaches consider the integration of software pro ject activities with the activities that take part in the organization’s common workflow. Keywords—Dynamic Reconfiguration,Organizational workflows, Project Management, Systematic Review

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