Project activities and experiences in an Albanian software company

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Project activities and experiences in an
Albanian software company
Luan Jubica
Zagreb 2004
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Objectives

• Overview of the first experiences
• Problems
• New experiences

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First experiences

• It all began with 3-4 programmers wishing to
  build and accounting software
• Continues with 2-3 analysts in our case
  accountants
• The accountants where the analysts and the
  testers of the software
• The programmers where the designers and
  implementers

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First experiences (cont...)
Design
AnalysisandDefinition
Implementation
Test
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First experiences (cont...)

• Changes or modifications made by two persons
• One programmer ( to do the implementation )
• One accountant ( to describe and test it )
• The programmer usually kept track of the changes
  and was responsible for versions of a certain
  software

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First experiences (sum up)

• No real software process
• Building only desktop applications
• No project management or version control
• No CASE tools used so far

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Environmental changes

• Inside problems
• Evolution in technology
• Market changes

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Whats happening inside?!

• Key members (developers) leaving the company.
• The documentation of the products being very poor
  (limited to the code comments, or small
  documents).
• Very difficult the tracking of versions.

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Evolution in technology

• More advanced hardware features
• New developing platforms
• Database design facilities

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Market changes

• Increasing computer usage and knowledge
• Wider and more advanced technical equipment
• Number of companies and their size growing
• The company began to grow in terms of
• number of clients
• requests for new software
• The market required the software architecture to
  change in client/server.

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Problems (sum up)

• More requirements
• Quality
• New features
• More advanced security solutions
• Leaking in management
• No strategy
• No versioning control
• Members leaving

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New experiences

• Technology
• Management
• The software process (some kind at least!!)

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Technology

• Moved from Visual Basic 4 to Visual Basic 6.0
• Started using some CASE tools
• Sybase Power Designer for database design
• Microsoft Visio
• Microsoft Visual Source Safe for version control
• Code generation tools

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Management

• The staff became organized in groups or teams
  (usually 3-4 team members)
• Every team developed a new software or specific
  modules of existing ones
• Started using CVS systems
• Documenting changes using more sophisticated
  software (Microsoft Project)

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The software process

• Started using a software process like RUP
• Started using UML , building use cases
• Rational Rose used as main CASE tool in Analysis
  and Design phase

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Summary

• Software process applied
• New CASE tools
• New project management
• New code generation tools

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Thank you!