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.
Software Project Management Anti-patterns in Students’ Projects
Raptopoulou Charikleia1, Poranen Timo2, Berki Eleni2, Stamelos Ioannis1
- 1Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thesssaloniki, Greece {raptopoc,stamelos}@csd.auth.gr
- 2School of Information Sciences, University of Tampere 33014, University of Tampere, Finland {timo.t.poranen, eleni.berki}@uta.fi
Abstract
Management of software projects has proven to be one of the most challenging tasks in the field of software engineering. During the development of a project several problematic situations and anti-patterns may arise that hinder the successful application of management practices. In this paper we analyze anti-patterns met by students attending a Software Project Management course. During their projects students met over twenty different anti-patterns. Train the Trainer and Hero Culture were most common anti-patterns. We also report a new anti-pattern, Unbearable Lightness of Being.