COTIPMO: A COnstructive Team Improvement Process MOdel

Abstract

Team synchronization and stabilization are essential - especially for large software projects. However, often little is done to assess and reduce the uncertainties and knowledge gaps that exist within the project. As the project progresses through its life cycle, the team can gain more information about the project and team's capabilities. These necessary data can be obtained through performing assessments on the team and project. As these assessments procedures are often complex, discouraging, and difficult to analyze, an effective framework and tool support can greatly enhance the process. Hence, with improved assessment methods, software project teams can quickly gather the necessary data, determine the actions to improve performance, and result in an improved project outcome in the end. The COnstructive Team Improvement Process MOdel (COTIPMO) is a framework developed to effectively improve team synchronization and stabilization as well as project effort estimation and scoping by enabling software development teams to quickly track project progress, continuously assess team performance, and make adjustments to the project estimates as necessary.