Project Management
Start Date: 15.12.2006
End Date: 15.06.2007
Project Duration: 6 month
Time Schedule
The master thesis project is set up in five raw phases:
1. Phase: Definition of the thesis (5%)
2. Phase: Problem modeling, definition of the thesis’ details (25%)
3. Phase: Prototype model in Maple, collection of data series (10%)
4. Phase: Implementing the model in C++ (30%)
5. Phase: Testing and fine-adjusting of the Program (20%)
6. Phase: Writing the thesis (10%)
Development Methodology
The project development methodology used draws nearer to the agile “Dynamic Systems Development Method” (DSDM, www.agilebusiness.org), which tries to react as fast as possible to changes and to satisfy the projects requirements on time and budget.
With the traditional methodologies, the functionality stays relatively fix and time and resources vary. DSDM reverses this viewpoint allowing the functionality to vary over the life of the project as new things are learned.
Since most of the topics/fields were new to me, I found it reasonable to use this development methodology to react appropriately to unforeseeable problems and to end the project in time.
The figure was taken from:
[HIGH 02] Jim Highsmith, Agile Software Development Ecosystems, First printing, Addison Wesley, 2002