A Conceptual-operative Framework for in-process Decision Support of Software Project Management Practice

The intention of this paper is to present an in-process decision support feature for Software project management (SPM). The significance of decision support in knowledge management of any discipline is undeniable and more prominent when it includes managerial capabilities. The specified in-process decision support in this paper astutely would address the distinct class of decision issues and accordingly tries to resolve them with an optimal policy. This feature would be accomplished with a multi-method simulation approach comprises of three different methods of simulation technique. The simulation methods implemented for the approach are discrete event simulation (DES), system dynamics (SD) and partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP). In this paper the composition of this framework and consequently the simulation results of POMDP policy which is operationcenter for decision support would be presented.