An Integrative System Dynamics Perspective of Software Project Management: Arguments for an Alternative Research Paradigm
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MIT_CISR_WP_152_An_Integrative_System_Dynamics_Perspective_of_Software_Project_Management_Arguments_for_an_Alternative_Research_Paradigm_Abdel-Hamid_Madnick.pdf
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Author(s)
Abdel-Hamid, Tarek
Madnick, Stuart
Date Issued
March 1, 1987
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Cambridge, Mass.: Center for Information Systems Research, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation
Abdel-Hamid, Tarek and Stuart Madnick. “An Integrative System Dynamics Perspective of Software Project Management: Arguments for an Alternative Research Paradigm.” Working paper 152, Center for Information Systems Research, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/175249.
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MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper 1871-87
CISR Working Paper 152
Abstract
In this paper we argue for an alternative research paradigm for the study of the software development project management process, namely, the integrative System Dynamics perspective. A major deficiency in much of the research to date on software project management has been its inability to integrate our knowledge of the micro components of the software development process to derive implications about the behavior of the total socio-technical system in which the micro components are embedded. Clearly this micro-oriented research work does make a useful contribution to our understanding of the software development activity. We maintain, however, that before we can say that we have a complete understanding, it is necessary to show that our knowledge of the individual components can be put together in a total system, i.e., an organization can be synthesized, which allows for the interactions of all the relevant variables and of all the structural components.
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