Survey paper for Software Project Scheduling and Staffing Problem

Abstract: In software development effective project planning is essential. Failure to plan and/or poor management can cause delays and costs that, given timing and budget constraints, are often unacceptable, leading to business critical failures. Software development organizations often struggle to deliver projects on time, within budget and with the required quality. One possible cause of this problem is poor software project management and, in particular, inadequate project scheduling and ineffective team staffing. Software project scheduling problem (SPSP) is one of the important and challenging problems faced by the software project managers in the highly competitive software industry. As the problem is becoming hard with the increasing numbers of employees and tasks, only a few algorithms exist and the performance is still not satisfying. To develop a flexible and effective model for software project planning, in this paper we have tried to do the survey of several techniques and methodologies and results yielded are elaborated.

Keywords: Software engineering, project management, software project resources, project scheduling, RCPSP, SPSP, ACO.