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Software project management (SPM) is one of the key activities in the success of a software product. One of the classical definitions of a management is the one that suggests to cover both science and the art, so is the software project management. The careful process of bringing together economics, software technology, and human relations for a software project is not a simple task, as a software project is an extremely people-intensive exertion that traverses an exceptionally long period of time, with crucial ramifications on the work and execution of a wide range of classes of individuals. Traditionally, SPM provides software planning, cost estimation, human resource management, and delivery. With the emergence of cloud computing services, there needs to be multitude of features offering and managing virtual development teams and services. Therefore, we have proposed a key set of SPM activities offered as a cloud service: software project management as a service (SPMaaS ). This chapter provides insight into SPMaaS as a cloud service featuring our approach to managing distributed teams and automated cost estimation for software metrics. The design of SPMaaS has been innovative with the use of the newly emerged modelling technique known as SoaML (UML modelling for SOA ) which is one of the key contributions to this research. This study discovered an overall 70% improvement of the cloud-based services by designing with SoaML by counting number of service components during the design phase of this research.
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Ramachandran, M., Chaugule, V. (2017). Software Project Management as a Service (SPMaaS): Perspectives and Benefits. In: Mahmood, Z. (eds) Software Project Management for Distributed Computing. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54325-3_5
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