The WISE Project Management System

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The Web-Integrated Software metrics Environment (WISE) is the first WWW-based project management and metrics system available on the WWW. WISE is a WWW-based tool that provides a framework for managing software development projects across the Web. Programmers and managers can log issue reports, track the status of issues, and view project metrics using standard WWW browsers. WISE provides a non-intrusive method to coordinate project activities and allow software development teams to view their progress and performance.

ALPHA SITES: Even though the Alpha distribution is available to the public, we will provide limited support to our Alpha sites. For those Alpha sites that have been patient (THANKS!), we will work with them to hand-hold the installation of WISE.

After the flood of initial interest in WISE, we had to make some strategic changes to our development plans. We apologize for the 2 month slip in scheduled release of WISE, but we want to release a usable, well-tested tool. After making major changes to the WISE implementation, we have been using WISE internally for the last 2 months to manage our own projects. Some features of the new WISE implementation include:

For more information on WISE, we have added a comments systemfor WISE (see Comments below) based on a real-time, operational WISE system! (Logon as anonymous with an empty (blank) password) This active system will allow you to learn about WISE, add your comments about WISE, register yourself on our mailing list, submit new features, etc. NOTE: The role of "anonymous" in the comment system will only let you view comments made by yourself and others. All requests, questions, etc. are currently visible only to the system admin role. This could change, however, since WISE can be easily customized and reconfigured. I may automate an FAQ list this way in the future. The purpose of the WISE project is to demonstrate the viability of metrics collection and use in our projects. Our project was inspired by the Experience Factory work by Basili, McGarry and Pajersky at the NASA Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL). WISE was developed as a "practice what you preach" approach to getting software organizations to collect and use metrics in the management of small and large scale software development efforts.

The WISE project is sponsored through a cooperative agreement between the NASA Software IV&V Facility in Fairmont, West Virginia and the Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia.


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