The Ragnarok Software Development Environment

Ragnarok is an experimental software development environment that focuses on enhanced support for managerial activities in large scale software development, taking the daily work of the software developer as its point of departure. The main emphasis is support in three areas: Management, navigation, and collaboration. The leitmotif is the software architecture, which is extended to handle managerial data in addition to source code; this extended software architecture is put under tight version-and connguration management control and furthermore used as basis for visualisation. Preliminary results of using the Ragnarok prototype in a number of projects are outlined.