On Quantitative Management Methods Of Information Technology Project Management

Project management is a practical subject. With the development and maturation of the project management theoretic, there are more and more people who take notice of project management practical methods and techniques, and begin to carry out these methods and techniques in their careers. It's information technology trade that is one of domains in which project management has been applied extensively. As to information technology trade, the results of surveys show that although the investment has been increasing, the success ratio of information project is not satisfactory. This phenomenon is known as information technology black hole. The causes of this problem focus on management. Comparing with the rapid development of technologies, project management level of information technology must been improved. For the maturation of the project management theoretic, the research on the methods and techniques, which are pertinent to information technology projects, has become the important way to improve the information management project management level. This thesis discusses the quantitative management methods that form one important part of information technology project management methods.In the course of the development of project management, there have been lots of quantitative management methods, and some of these methods have been applied well in practices. But most of these methods are originated from traditional engineering project. As an new trade, Information technology project is different with traditional engineering project, which influences the application conditions and effects of some methods. In the course of the development of information technology trade, there are some particular methods too. This thesis tries to collect that quantitative methods widely and analyze the applicability and validity of these methods in information technology projects.This thesis includes five parts. The first is generality part. After introducing the concept of project management and other relative things, and project management level, this part analyzes the import of quantitative management in project management and the feature of information technology project. The application of quantitative management methods in information technology project must be analyzed on the basis of these features. Not all of project management fields need quantitative management. The last of this part introduces the fields that need quantitative management from two aspects of estimation and measurement.From the second part to the fifth part, this thesis introduces these quantitative methods that have been classified with their source subject. In the course of development, project management adopts lots of other relative subject's methods and techniques. And there are some particular quantitative management methods in information technology trade. This thesis introduces the principles ofquantitative management methods from operational research, probability and statistics, software engineering and economic.The sixth part makes use of an example of information technology to illuminate the practical application of these quantitative management methods. Since some quantitative methods have same application fields, this example selects some of these methods.The last part analyzes and concludes the applicability and validity of these quantitative management methods in information technology project on the basis of the application fields of methods and the feature of information technology project.