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Project methodologies and psychological aspects of human resource management
Svoboda, Jiří ; Molnár, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Buchalcevová, Alena (referee) ; Luhan, Igor (referee) ; Merunka, Vojtěch (referee)
Although there is a growing influence of psychology and human resources in modern management, this area is being often neglected in theory and particularly in praxis of project management. This area offers a big potential for improvement of performance of project teams and increase of teamwork efficiency. Therefore this thesis is focused on human factor in project management and the opportunity for using psychology, especially the theory of motivation and teamwork. There were set more main goals of thesis they can be split in two groups. In the first group there are research goals aimed on teamwork in project teams managed by agile or traditional methods, establishment of project teams, characteristics of projects suitable for agile approach and implementation of agile methods in a company. The proposal of solution of identified problem areas belongs to the second group of goals. According to the research results agile project teams are closer to psychological concept of team, whilst traditional project teams are closer to work groups. Therefore agile project teams have better potential for being more efficient and performing higher than the project teams managed by traditional methods. Another finding in this thesis is regarding setting up the project teams and their daily work. Although agile methods seem to be more efficient from the teamwork perspective, they don't offer general solution for all problems in project management and their usage is not necessary suitable for all kinds of projects and company environment. That's why the characteristics of appropriate projects for being managed by agile methods were also investigated. Successful implementation and application of agile methods is strongly influenced by company environment and other factors that were identified in theoretical part of the thesis and subsequently verified by the research. The thesis brings a lot of verified information regarding work in project teams and emphasizes the significance of management, motivation and development of project teams. For identified problem areas with significant potential for improvement were prepared two solution proposals included in final parts of the thesis. The first solution is a model for implementation of project methodology in a company; the second one is a model aimed on project team performance increase. Both proposed solutions offers specific tools and techniques ready for application in company environment.
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Strategy of company focused on information systems development
Souček, Dan ; Voříšek, Jiří (advisor) ; Janota, David (referee)
My bachelor thesis is focused on the strategy of company, which designs, develops and tests information systems and applications. The main goal of my thesis is analyzing the strategy of such a company, and making a comparison with the related literature. The thesis also concerns the management of IS/ICT projects and compares the theoretical basis with the practical experience. In the preamble, the most interesting facts, mentioned in the related world literature, are elaborated. Then the part, which is marked as The First Part, follows. It includes the analysis of IS/ICT market position of existing IT company. I chose the fields in which is the significant competitive advantage of chosen company. In the second part, three different projects performed by the company, including analyses of success' and losses' critical aspects, are described. In conclusion the results of analyses are compared with the facts mentioned in the literature. The global evaluation is included in this part as well.
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Behaviour driven development
Vodička, Petr ; Buchalcevová, Alena (advisor) ; Pecinovský, Rudolf (referee)
This bachelor's thesis discusses the topic of an agile approach to software development -- Be-haviour Driven Development. The aim of this thesis is to acquaint the reader with the de-scribed methodology. Firstly from a theoretical perspective with emphasis on applying it in software projects and in collaboration with customers, secondly from a more practical view, where the thesis presents some of the tools that are used in this style of software development, namely the framework Cucumber JVM and specification by example. For this purpose, the thesis presents an example of a little software project, where the principles of Behaviour Driven Development were applied. As the Behaviour Driven Development is one of the agile approaches, the introductory part of this thesis briefly describes such approach and compares it with the traditional approach to create a context for the following theoretical and practical part.
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Localization and customization of OpenUP methodology
Rejnková, Petra ; Buchalcevová, Alena (advisor) ; Stanovská, Iva (referee)
These days there are a lot of methodologies which can be used for IS/ICT implementation projects. Apart from traditional rigorous methodologies such as Rational Unified Process (RUP), there are also agile methodologies, which are characterized by positive approach to change and iterative development with very short iterations. One of these methodologies is OpenUP, which combines both agile and rigorous principles. OpenUP covers the most important factors necessary to focus on during software development, but on the other hand it also respects the fact that each project is unique. That is why it offers the possibility to extend or customize its content for specific requirements. The main objective of this diploma is to localize and customize OpenUP methodology for the projects which are running within the courses of software engineering at the University of Economics in Prague. The result if this customization and localization is a methodology suitable for small software projects called MMSP. This diploma also pursues other objectives like to find and characterize tools suitable for administration and customization of the methodology. These objectives were achieved by deep analysis of various sources about OpenUP methodology, information system development projects and methodologies of IS/ICT development. The resulting methodology was not only based on these information but it also results from experiences and best practices from the projects at the University of Economics in Prague and from consultations with experts in practice. The key benefit of this diploma is a complete Czech localized methodology MMSP which can be used both for school and real projects of IS/ICT development. MMSP is available in a form that can be easily embraced, further customized and administrated.
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Design of web applications testing methodology
Fiurášek, Tomáš ; Buchalcevová, Alena (advisor) ; Borovcová, Anna (referee)
Development of web applications is closely associated with testing. This master's thesis deals with the domain of testing. The goal of this thesis is to design a methodology of testing of web applications for small software company. The designed methodology results from OpenUP methodology and author's work experience. First, the theoretical part of this thesis is devoted to testing, history of testing and introduces several approaches to testing. Next, the theoretical part focuses on web applications and its specifics in light of testing. In view of the fact that the designed methodology is inspired by OpenUP methodology, this methodology including its basic principles and components is introduced in next separate chapter. The largest chapter describes the designed methodology of testing of web applications and its basic components: roles, activities and artifacts. Also errors and their lifecycles are examined. The thesis is concluded by a short muse upon the aspects of the implementation of the designed methodology in the environment of small company.
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OpenUP Methodic
Kocura, Petr ; Buchalcevová, Alena (advisor) ; Balada, Jakub (referee)
The objectives of this bachelor thesis are understandable and clear description of OpenUP methodic and cross-references in chapters between method contents. It is used the way to study all expert resources especially the methodic to fulfilling them. The main contribution of this thesis is understandable a clearly described OpenUP in Czech language and cross-references between method contents. These references are also listed collectively in attachments. The reader is introduced to OpenUP (what is its structure, what it offers) at beginning of reading and then is detailed the lifecycle, practices and roles with great accent to cross-references.
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Scrum methodology
Košata, Václav ; Buchalcevová, Alena (advisor) ; Balada, Jakub (referee)
Scrum methodology is commonly used methodology now, because of its high ability to adapt to changing requirements and its transparency of development. Scrum does not offer set of techniques or exact progression but shows framework- how to look at the development of correct software. This thesis focuses on description and explanation of the methodology's practices, roles and rules. Additionally it contains analysis of the project phases and the artifacts which the developing team encountered during their work. The goal of this work is to present a complete description of the methodology, which is followed by practical using IBM's software Rational Team Concert. This bachelor thesis can be used for education on university campuses or as a practical aid for developing teams making use of the benefits of this agile methodology.
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