FARIAS, C. B. A.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3309124072452549; FARIAS, Cecir Barbosa de Almeida.
Resumo:
Frequently in the development of projects occurs waste of resources, defects and missing
deadlines. In the software development area this issue becomes more significant, where
complex projects are developed with difficulty, although techniques, models and
traditional tools for project management are popular. Deadlines always are extended and
the cost of software being developed gowns significantly. The traditional models of project
management don‘t fit very well to large projects with a short schedule. The actual project
management tools do not cover the track of both processes (times, costs, resources and
activities) and software projects. The actual software development methodologies represent many advances to assist a manager into a software development process, but it lacks a more adequate use of them, in accordance with the specific complexity of the type of application being developed and its characteristics. This work is centered in the extension of a net for project management, called Activities Net, designed to track detailed
information about the development of processes and projects, calculate and update costs,
allocate human resources and schedule activities. This net is the main component of an
integrated environment for project development management, called GDP, based on a
four-layer approach: (1) determine de best methodology; (2) model the metodology; (3)
model the project; (4) execute the project. In order to determine the structural quality of an
Activities Net and allow simulations and correct cost a time calculations, a special class of
Petri Nets has been developed, called Project Net (NP). Also the mapping of an Activities
Net to a Project Net has been defined.