Abstract
This computer science project creates an online tool for software development managers. The tool makes quick analysis of a software development company’s project repository. Manager View does something that no existing software does, by allowing the user to view repository metrics in a new and meaningful way. This analysis of repository data can offer insight into the quality and quantity of developers, their actions and the software artifacts they generate. In this project we demonstrate how such data can be used to reveal actionable information. The views show daily employee and task activity in a way that gives a sense of timespan, depth and scope of work contributed. Traditionally, process improvement is done after the fact when insights are collected as a postmortem. With this tool, insights are available every day and managers can use such insights to steer work in progress. Using web technologies to access the repository database, Manager View creates views that reveal developer workloads and the detailed status of all tasks and developers, at any given moment, or at any historical point in time.
Faculty Sponsors
Dr. Michael Van Hilst
Project Type
Event
Location
Alvin Sherman Library
Start Date
4-4-2014 1:00 PM
End Date
4-4-2014 5:30 PM
Manager View - An Interface for Generating Actionable Data from Repository Metrics
Alvin Sherman Library
This computer science project creates an online tool for software development managers. The tool makes quick analysis of a software development company’s project repository. Manager View does something that no existing software does, by allowing the user to view repository metrics in a new and meaningful way. This analysis of repository data can offer insight into the quality and quantity of developers, their actions and the software artifacts they generate. In this project we demonstrate how such data can be used to reveal actionable information. The views show daily employee and task activity in a way that gives a sense of timespan, depth and scope of work contributed. Traditionally, process improvement is done after the fact when insights are collected as a postmortem. With this tool, insights are available every day and managers can use such insights to steer work in progress. Using web technologies to access the repository database, Manager View creates views that reveal developer workloads and the detailed status of all tasks and developers, at any given moment, or at any historical point in time.
