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Software managers’ perceptions of

Kalpana Parshotam · University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Institutional Repository on DSpace (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) · 2011

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BoManejo: software for forest managers.

PEREIRA, J. F., KANASHIRO, M. · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) · 2018

In the Brazilian Amazon, operators are required by law to follow sustainable forest management plans (SFMPs) that have been approved by the appropriate governmental institutions. As part of SFMPs, operators must conduct a 100% forest inventory of the area to be logged in a given year; they must also have annual operational plans that specify the activities to be carried out and indicate the trees to be logged, with their geographic position, scientific name, diameter at breast height, height, and wood volume. Harvesting is permitted only after state and federal agencies have evaluated and approved the annual operating plan. The forest inventories carried out to meet these legal requirements produce an enormous quantity of data, the analysis of which requires significant data-processing capacity. Most operators use electronic spreadsheets, making the process slow and cumbersome and not conducive to good forest management planning. Brazil?s forest sector needs?and demands?software that speeds up and improves the forest planning process by aiding the selection of harvest trees based on clear criteria, providing better control over timber production, and enabling sustainable forest management.

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Managers Handbook for Software Development

Card, D., Agresti, W., Werking, R. et al. · NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

Methods and aids for the management of software development projects are presented. The recommendations are based on analyses and experiences with flight dynamics software development. The management aspects of organizing the project, producing a development plan, estimation costs, scheduling, staffing, preparing deliverable documents, using management tools, monitoring the project, conducting reviews, auditing, testing, and certifying are described.

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PopR: Software for Wildlife Managers

J. Joshua Nowak, Paul M. Lukacs, Justin A. Gude et al. · 2016

It is widely recognized that modern computer software makes wildlife management and research easier and allows increasingly complex tasks to become routine.  Unfortunately, data storage and reporting rarely keep pace with the rapid expansion of data analysis software.  Such disconnects in workflow can lead to missed opportunities where data are not used to their fullest extent and results are slow to emerge.  Here we present a server-based software system, PopR (https://popr.cfc.umt.edu), which merges wildlife management agency databases with state-of-the-art statistical software for real-time wildlife data analysis, population modeling and reporting.  The interface to PopR is a secure website allowing access from any location with internet access and from any platform (personal computer, smartphone, tablet, etc.).  PopR connects to remote data sources through an application program interface (API).  PopR implements Bayesian integrated population models (IPM) combining multiple data sources.  The IPM’s efficiently deal with limited data, overcome missing data and facilitate prediction with error.  PopR also implements individual data source analyses such as survival, sightability and herd composition, among others.  PopR modules are in development or in use in the states of Idaho, Montana and South Dakota where the software is used for a variety of species including deer, elk and mountain lions.  Finally, add-on applications include tools for defining biological populations, checking data integrity and eliciting expert opinion.  The PopR workflow management system promises to streamline data collection, automate routine analyses and generally save managers time while increasing inference from limited data.

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Software project managers' risk preferences

Thomas Lauer · Journal of Information Technology · 1996

A questionnaire was administered to 68 software project managers (SPMs). Questions were designed to test whether SPMs' risky judgments were more consistent with Expected Utility Theory or Prospect Theory. Although the results were more consistent with Prospect Theory, they differed in important ways showing SPMs' judgments to be less homogeneous than is assumed by either theory. These results highlight the potential importance of SPMs' judgments to the outcome of software development projects.

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Software Project Managers under the Team Software Process

Marcos Ruano‐Mayoral, Ricardo Colomo‐Palacios, Ángel García-Crespo et al. · IGI Global eBooks · 2012

Despite the clear relevance of the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) market in world economics and the evident lack of success of software projects, organizations devote little effort to the development and maturity of the software project manager profession. This work analyzes the figure of project manager from the perspective of the Team Software Process (TSP), and it considers the required skills, attitudes and knowledge for a software development project. The basis for the study is the analysis of relevant references from the literature for their subsequent categorization into different competency concepts. The results of the analysis are compared with the contributions which the Guide to the SWEBOK® and the PMBOK® Guide models provide of the profiles of the project manager. The results indicate that the literature relating to the Team Software Process is focused on the definitions of skills and attitudes, and to a lesser extent on knowledge components. The lack of the definition of the components which comprise competency constitutes a challenge for software development organizations that use TSP, whose project managers should confront the task with full capacities, and without the help of established and recognized competencies. The current work attempts to establish the competencies for project managers identified in the literature, in the environment of the use of TSP for software development, using a study based on content analysis.

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The characteristics of software engineering managers

Nazelrod, Gary · American University Research Archive · 2023

This thesis is an analytical study that investigates the characteristics of software engineering managers, their training, and their background, and relates these factors to their effectiveness. This thesis develops and uses two questionnaires to collect the necessary data from entry level managers and their subordinates. A portion of the questionnaires is the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, which is an implementation of the Jung theory of type. This thesis concludes from the collected data that software engineers promoted into supervisory positions lack needed training to perform their jobs effectively. This thesis further concludes that there are differences in the personality type of software engineers and software engineering managers.Chairperson: Nanette Levinson.

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Software Managers' Guide to Operational Excellence

Kate Matsudaira · Queue · 2023

Software engineering managers (or any senior technical leaders) have many responsibilities: the care and feeding of the team, delivering on business outcomes, and keeping the product/system/application up and running and in good order. Each of these areas can benefit from a systematic approach. The one I present here is setting up checks and balances for the team's operational excellence.

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An information workstation for software managers

M A Kret · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 1987

In the complex and changing environment of software development, it is imperative that software managers have current and meaningful information to support decision making. This article discusses a system that draws information from all phases of the software life cycle and analyzes that data from a software manager's workstation. With the analysis tools available at the workstation and data extracted from the various phases of development, managers can begin to form a model of the software development life cycle and measure the success or failure of software projects in quantitative terms.

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An information workstation for software managers

M A Kret · 1987

In the complex and changing environment of software development, it is imperative that software managers have current and meaningful information to support decision making. This article discusses a system that draws information from all phases of the software life cycle and analyzes that data from a software manager's workstation. With the analysis tools available at the workstation and data extracted from the various phases of development, managers can begin to form a model of the software development life cycle and measure the success or failure of software projects in quantitative terms.

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Emotional Awareness in Software Development: Evaluating Software Project Managers’ Perspectives

Leo Silva, Margarida Lima, Henrique Madeira · IEEE Access · 2025

Developers’ emotions significantly influence job satisfaction, motivation, productivity, and work quality throughout the software development lifecycle. Previous research highlighted the impact of human factors in various professional domains, such as decision-making, job performance, and project success. However, systematic monitoring and integration into decision-making processes within software development remain underexplored. This study investigates how software project managers approach emotional management in their projects, focusing on identifying emotional variations and their actions in response. Besides, the managers experimented with an emotional polarity-monitoring dashboard tool designed to display developers’ emotional states over time. The findings reveal that emotional variations are currently identified in an ad-hoc manner, underscoring the need for a systematic approach to monitor and manage the impact of developers’ emotional fluctuations on the development process. Software project managers recognized that a systematic approach such as the one provided by the tool used in this study would have the potential to boost productivity, team cohesion, decision-making, and institutional well-being, emphasizing the value of understanding developers’ psychological aspects to enhance the software development process.

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