Antecedentes e consequentes em modelos de SD para gestão de projetos de software.

Abstract

When making decisions, software project managers need to consider several factors, making this activity a very complex one. In order to help managers with these decisions, tools have been used to simulate the impact of these factors on project results. Models in System Dynamics (SD) have been shown to be a good option for such simulations because they have dynamic characteristics and use "Feedback" systems, typical aspects of software project development. The aim of this work is to identify which factors (antecedents) influence software projects and what they influence (consequents) in projects that have already been modeled in SD. For this, a mapping was performed using the Web of Science (WoS) indexing base. The articles were evaluated by order of publication, starting with the most recent and considering the proposed inclusion and exclusion criteria. Some of the factors mapped were: customer influence, team promotion, schedule pressure, overtime (antecedents); team productivity, project cost and project duration (consequents). The expected contribution is to help researchers who intend to build SD models to find factors not yet modeled or reuse factors already modeled by other researchers, avoiding re-work.