Literature Review on Project Management Tools

This literature review explores the importance of project management tools in higher education computer courses and provides insights on various research papers related to project management tools.

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According to [1], nearly ten PM (Project Management) tool related knowledge and
guidance to plan software projects are shared. This research is conducted to fulfill the increasing
demands of PM tools among the students of higher education computer courses. The education
of PM tool facilitates the application of particular PM technique. The researchers observe the
need to improvise the teaching of PM tools, and proposes the instructional feedback approach.
The proposed approach can be beneficial for the student to learn and equip PM tool skills,
including evaluating the actions and decision making. This approach must be applied in the
instructional unit (IU) teaching PM tools that are aligned with the PM body of knowledge. The
researchers evaluated the proposed instructional feedback technique by experimenting it on the
students of undergraduate computer courses. The results showed positive results, where the
technique helped the students to learn and meet their needs of better teaching, for clearly
understanding the PM theory and its practice.
As talked about in the writing [2], the article represents the past nine year old developed
practices and their implementation for managing the main risks which confronted the
Computational Research and Engineering Acquisition Tools and Environments (CREATE)
program. The CREATE tools are developed depending on years of scientific and engineering
research. It is observed that several challenges are faced to convert this research knowledge into
engineering software which could be used effectively by the engineers who have not contributed
for the development of the software. The identified problem include that this research software is
not always enough robust for the engineers. Due to which various projects have been
unsuccessful. The researcher’s recommendation based on their experience in PM supports that
all the successful software development programs should contain three easy and important
elements such as- Vision which recognizes the advantages along with goals, and later the
requirements are defined; Strategy stated in terms of plans and execution of processes, with the
required resources and funds for executing the program; and most importantly a well-led team
who has necessary technical and project skills, including basic infrastructure and organizational
support.
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As examined in the writing [3] the researchers evaluated the automated data collection of
construction projects, to see the importance of real-time progress tracking for active monitoring
of all the project phases. This research determines the importance of tracking the project progress
automatically and shows the potential of identifying the delays on time in context to supporting
decision making. The research on technological developments for facilitating the objectives of
project management are outlined in this research paper. This research hopes to assist the
stakeholders in selecting the right data collection tools. This research is based on the augmented
reality situations. When compared to the advanced tools which lack tracking and automatic
documentation the augmented reality applications are concluded to be more promising for all
projects irrespective of their size and type. Moreover, these applications are drastically growing
as the web-based applications and the wireless network technologies are turning out to be highly
accessible.
As per [4], the researchers presented a novel Cloud-based mobile system to assist the
software engineering students in Capstone course, to develop their skills with the theoretical and
practical approach. The absence of appropriate tool to communicate with the students,
stakeholders, and the academic team was the identified problem. This resulted in dissatisfactory
course outcomes and gave rise to the need of how the project management skills can be
improved in computing majors with the help of technology-enhanced learning environments. The
Cloud-based mobile system is used to support project management under the best practice
framework. The proposed system fits well to convert the information into knowledge, with the
help of various techniques in Data Science for Empirical Software Engineering. Where the
Kanban approach is used which provides better visualization and effective monitoring of
activities. The Mobile and Cloud Computing (MCC) system component supports the
development of PM skills, including teamwork. Thus, this resulted in positive results to develop
skills in the students.
It is stated in [5] that, the businesses are gradually depending on IT (Information
Technology) for all their business operations, then the project managers are pressurized to
innovate new innovations for delivering quality projects, based on budget constraints and on
timely basis. The problem revolves around the unity and lack of communication between the
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stakeholders and people involved in the project. This problem gives rise to lack of resources,
extending the scheduled deadlines etc. Thus, this research paper develops a web based software
project management system with the help of iterative methodology, to allocate tasks, to monitor
the progress of the project, to create milestones and during the development phase the
shareholders are facilitated to track the project progress. Thus, the problem of unity and lack of
communication is resolved in this research paper. The research paper recommends that the web
based project management systems must be deployed to fulfill the need of effectively managing
the projects. The web based project management systems are determined as useful, convenient, it
saves both time and resources, and decreases labour and stationery costs. Therefore, it is
essential for the project managers to effectively manage their software projects.
As discussed in [6], the researchers have analyzed the software project management tools
in various way. Software engineering covers methods, theories and tools for particular design,
architecture, testing, and software systems’ maintenance. With the development and
advancement of large software intensive systems, challenges are normal to occur, the solution to
these systems is to develop and implement automated approaches, and make them available on
time at economic cost. The researchers have determined that, for automated software tools
effective planning and managing the projects successfully is highly crucial. Various automated
software tools are available for various circumstances and purposes, and methods to select a right
software project management tool are limited. However, it is critical to identify the quality
project management software. This research paper helps to predict the project management tool’s
quality and in future how it could be standardized, based on the modern advancements.
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References
[1] R. Goncalves, C. von Wangenheim, J. Hauck and A. Zanella, "An Instructional Feedback
Technique for Teaching Project Management Tools Aligned With PMBOK", IEEE
Transactions on Education, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 143-150, 2018. Available:
10.1109/te.2017.2774766.
[2] R. Kendall et al., "A Risk-Based, Practice-Centered Approach to Project Management for
HPCMP CREATE", Computing in Science & Engineering, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 40-51, 2016.
Available: 10.1109/mcse.2015.135.
[3] T. Omar and M. Nehdi, "Automated Data Collection for Progress Tracking Purposes: A
Review of Related Techniques", International Congress and Exhibition, pp. 391-405, 2017.
[Accessed 13 April 2019].
[4] A. Neyem, J. Diaz-Mosquera and J. Benedetto, "A Cloud-Based Mobile System to Improve
Project Management Skills in Software Engineering Capstone Courses", Mobile
Information Systems, vol. 2018, pp. 1-16, 2018. Available: 10.1155/2018/6371793.
[5] A. Izan, C. Ihesiulo, M. Ofuru and C. Okafor, "A Web- Based Project Management
System", International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software
Engineering, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 39-45, 2016. [Accessed 13 April 2019].
[6] M. Sajad, M. Sadiq, K. Naveed and M. Shahid Iqbal, "Software Project Management: Tools
assessment, Comparison and suggestions for future development.", vol. 16, no. 1, 2016.
[Accessed 13 April 2019].
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