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Project planning is a delicate and on-going activity that requires a great deal of experience and knowledge. Several models and methods are developed which explore the various aspects of planning a project. In this paper, we propose a framework named Spiral Pro that integrates Spiral Model, MBASE and COCOMO II to help project managers do their project planning in a systematic way. In an empirical study, a project plan template, developed following the framework, was provided for thirteen e-service projects and a survey was used at the end to assess the study. Based on the survey, some characteristics are summarized, which help point out the effectiveness of using of Spiral Pro framework. Motivated by the findings in the study, a tool has been developed to help both experienced and inexperienced project managers make better use of the framework for project planning.
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant No. 60273026, 60473060 and The Hi-Tech Research and Development Program (863 Program) of China under grant No. 2004AA112080, 2005AA113140.
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Wang, J., Meyers, S. (2006). Spiral Pro: A Project Plan Generation Framework and Support Tool. In: Li, M., Boehm, B., Osterweil, L.J. (eds) Unifying the Software Process Spectrum. SPW 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3840. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11608035_23
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