Abstract [eng] |
The research domain in this dissertation includes enterprise management, enterprise application software engineering, and an Agile approach towards enterprise application software (EAS) project management: how to ensure EAS project solutions are aligned with the enterprise strategy and how to evaluate the complexity of the development project of such system. The goal of the dissertation is to develop a modified Agile project management method and a project management system architecture using a causal modelling method that ensures EAS project solution alignment to business strategy and allows the evaluation of the EAS project specification status against the enterprise's strategic objectives. During the research, the state-of-the-art methods were analysed that are intended to ensure the alignment between business needs and capabilities with EAS solutions. A modified - causal model of Agile project management was developed using a management transaction concept and capability concept from the enterprise architecture framework MODAF. In the modified Agile project management method, through the transformations of the interactions between different Agile activities (project tasks), the strategic objectives of the enterprise are consistently linked to the specific task of the EAS project by ensuring the transfer of causal knowledge of the domain. The proposed modified Agile project management method has been realized and project management tool architecture, knowledge base specification, and prototype for system users (project managers, product owners, organization managers, and system developers) are presented. The EAS project complexity indicators presented in the dissertation reveal the peculiarities of managing such projects and allow to compare the demand for resources to coordinate different EAS projects. The results of the experimental evaluation of the proposed method showed that causal-based Agile project management method improves the alignment of EAS solution design with the strategic objectives of the enterprise, thus ensuring more efficient EAS project delivery. The research results of the dissertation were presented at national and international scientific conferences and published as papers in scientific journals cited by other researchers. |