Approaches for Measuring Software Project Management Effectiveness

Evaluating, monitoring, and improving the effectiveness of project management can contribute to successful acquisition of software systems. According to our empirical studies on a range of software development projects, half of the variation in software project success ratings may be explained by project management effectiveness measurements. To improve the quality of the management, to focus our improvement efforts on the right issues, and to increase the odds of success in software projects, it is essential to measure the effectiveness of software project management. In this paper, we introduce four different approaches for measuring software project management effectiveness. Two of these approaches discussed in this paper were successfully used in the development of a metric for software project management effectiveness. The contribution of this paper is the introduction of these approaches for guiding the researchers for the development of other project management metrics.