My name is Charikleia Raptopoulou and I graduated from the University of Macedonia with a B.Sc. in Applied Informatics. During my master thesis in the Department of Informatics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki I conducted a research on Software Project Management anti-patterns in Finnish software industry, which was funded by the European Union and the Erasmus Program. At the same time, a second research was conducted, concerning the Software Project Management anti-patterns met by students in their industrial software projects. For the completion of both researches the help and support by the professors Eleni Berki, Stamelos Ioannis, Timo Porannen and Aggelis Lefteris has been valuable.
Management Anti-patterns in Finnish Software Industry
Raptopoulou Charikleia1, Berki Eleni2, Poranen Timo2, Stamelos Ioannis1, Aggelis Lefteris1
- 1Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thesssaloniki, Greece {raptopoc,stamelos,lef}@csd.auth.gr
- 2School of Information Sciences, University of Tampere 33014, University of Tampere, Finland {eleni.berki ,timo.t.poranen }@uta.fi
Abstract
Software Project Management (SPM) is considered to be one of the most difficult and demanding tasks in the discipline of software engineering. During the construction of a software project many problematic situations and anti-patterns arise that have the potential to lead project to failure. In this paper we present data collected from the Finnish software industry regarding SPM anti-patterns, such as managers’ familiarity and experience with anti-patterns. Also, the most interesting cases are presented and analyzed. Our research has shown that Analysis Paralysis and Death by Planning are the least frequently encountered anti-patterns, while Hidden Requirements and Train the Trainer are two of the most frequent anti-patterns in Finnish software industry. It was also shown that, in general, Finnish managers are not aware of the concept of management anti-patterns.