Impact Analysis of Allocation of Resources by Project Manager on Success of Software Projects

Generation Production of successful software project is one of the prime considerations of software industry. Engineering high quality software products is further influenced by several factors such as budget, schedule, resource constraints etc. A project manager is responsible for estimation and allocation of these resources in a project. Hence, role of project manager has a vital influence on success of the project. This research comprises of an empirical study of several projects developed in a product and service based CMMI Level 5 Software Company. The investigation result shows a significant impact of aforementioned factors on the success of software and on the company. The analysis further indicates the vital role of project managers in optimizing the resource allocation towards development of software. This paper brings in impact analysis of efficiency of project manager in effectively allocating resources such as time, cost, number of developers etc. An awareness of efficiency level of project manager in optimal allocation of resources enables one to realize the desired level of quality number of developing personnel etc for the implementation of desired application as elicited from potential stakeholders. Hence, effective project management is more dependent on efficiency of the project manager (2). Nevertheless, the importance of project manager in effective project management process and existence of several quality enhancing strategies, it is worth to recall that most of the project failure occurs due to inefficient project management process. This research therefore aims to analyse the impact of various resources which were allocated by project manager on the success of the project. This paper therefore presents an empirical investigation on several projects from a product based software industry to signify the impact analysis of efficiency of project manager in effectively allocating resources. Section II of the paper briefs about the background work for this investigation. Section III describes the Research Method, Section IV presents the empirical analysis of several projects through a case study, Section V presents the Analysis and Inferences and Section VI provides the summary of this research paper.

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