Project characteristics used for methodology selection to develop the software project

Abstract

There are numerous methodologies available in IT industry to develop project. It depends upon certain characteristic of the project. We are going to discuss about how the methodology is choose using the project characteristic. For this development we have to consider project characteristic like size of the project, stability of the requirement and environment, team relationship, client commitment, project scope and risk clearness, stakeholder flexibility. All these characteristic are gathered from the literature, face to face interaction with the people working in IT industry and interview with the IT professional in all level of project management. By this Characteristic analysis, methodology choosing can be done easily. The methodology analyzed for finding the Project characteristic are waterfall, V-Model and Agile Methodology. This paper discusses how this project characteristic is used to choose the methodology for the software project development.