Uma ferramenta de gerência de projeto - Gepro.

Abstract

Wastes, missed deadlines and high costs are daily observed in several kinds of designs. In Software Designing, methodologies are most concerned with the construction component, not focusing on other two components: management and evaluation. The Software Engineering Environments automate processes by imposing, to the projects, better quality and productivity in Software Design Developing. As a result of these problems, we have been motivated to develop a design management tool for a Software Development Environment, called DYNAMO. The objectives are reducing design risks, providing desirable features of an environment to the project, as well as allowing the methodologies to be used in their totality, that is, including the evaluation and management components. To develop this tool, we had to create a network, inspired in Petri's Network, to model development processes in order to control many activities of Software Design. The Design Management Tool, GEPRO, uses such network by integrating this tool to a methodology with the objective of controlling human resources, operational resources, deadlines, costs, as well as evaluating and improving the products and the processes of development. The control, the evaluation and the improvement are observeded by the specification and control modules of the tool with the agreement of Software metrics. Therefore we believe that GEPRO contributes to simplify and to give more efficiency to management aspects of the Software Design.