The management of software development processes is a continual challenge facing software development organizations. Previous studies used "flexible models" and empirical methods to optimize software development processes. In this thesis, the expected payoff is used to quantitatively evaluate processes. Payoff can be defined as the value of a team member's action, and the expected payoff combines the value of the payoff of a team member's action and the probability of taking that action. The mathematic models of a waterfall process and two flexible processes are evaluated in terms of total maximum expected payoff. The results show under which conditions which process is more valuable. An overview of this work and results will be presented in this seminar.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.81576 |
| Date | January 2004 |
| Creators | Wang, Zhihua, 1970- |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Engineering (Department of Mechanical Engineering.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 002173311, proquestno: AAIMR06593, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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