@inproceedings{oai:kutarr.kochi-tech.ac.jp:00001164,
 author = {WATANABE, Eiichi and WATANABE, Tsunemi},
 book = {Society for Social Management Systems Internet Journal},
 month = {May},
 note = {Concerning the information-system development for financial institutions, the mass media often focuses on the effectiveness and efficiency of project management of the large-scale development projects which have big social impacts. In practice, however, there are more small-scale development projects and so called enhance projects. The enhance project refers to a project of adding a function to the original product and system and/or improving its performance. The enhance project needs different project management from large-scale development project for the following reasons. First, not only the quality assurance of added part, but also the measures for maintaining the performance of the existing part at the same level are indispensable. Second, many enhance project goals are modification requirements which directly link to urgent business necessity such as “we need to carry out performance improvement as early as possible to cope with the complaint from the client”, and “we must add a new function to compete against our rival who provided new services.” Third, the evaluation of cost effectiveness of enhance project is particularly difficult. Thus, the objective of this paper is to study what project manager’s actions (referred to as PM actions) are appropriate for software development in IT vendors for financial institutions of Japan. Here, the authors focus on small-scale enhance projects where the total man day is less than 100 man-months from the stage of requirement definition to the stage of system testing. Concretely, the effectiveness of four types of PM actions with different reporting styles, catch-up contents, communication, and participation are studied. Then, workload, productivity, communication, morale of staff, and the ratio of the actual cost to the estimated cost are studied for each project management. The result shows that different project management from ordinary project management is more effective. It is suggested that different aspects should also be emphasized for small-scale enhance projects.},
 publisher = {Society for Social Management Systems},
 title = {A study on effectiveness of project management of software development in IT vendors for financial institutions of Japan : Influence investigation in PM action},
 volume = {8},
 year = {2012}
}