The document discusses enhancing software project management (SPM) through the identification of antipatterns using open data and social networks. It outlines the Onsocal project's goals, specifying how to locate experts and detect antipatterns, alongside the development of a crawler for this purpose. The findings include various antipatterns within software management that can hinder project success, emphasizing the importance of recognizing and addressing these patterns in collaboration with modern data analysis tools.

1. Enabling Open
Software Project
Management data
with Antipatterns
Mindtrek2015, Tampere 22-24 September 2015
Prof. Panos FITSILIS, fitsilis@teilar.gr, Technological
Educational Institute of Thessaly, Greece
Dr. Dimitrios Settas, Consultant
Prof. Ioannis Stamelos, Kyriakos Tilentzidis, Ilias Moustakas,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

2. Contents
 The ONSOCIAL project
 The case study under discussion
 Patterns and antipatterns
 ArC Crawler, the ontology data collection process
 antipattern detection system DENSE
 Conclusions, further work
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3. Typical Project
Management Approaches
 Project Management Institute – Body of Knowledge
 www.pmi.org
 Integration, scope, time, cost, quality, HR,
communication,
 PRINCE
 www.prince2.com
 IPMA Competence Baseline
 www.ipma.ch
 Technical, behavioral, contextual
 Agile methods
 XP, Scrum, Crystal Reports, etc.
Process
People
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4. What are the intangibles in SPM?
DEFINITION OF INTANGIBLES
The factors not shown in the traditional project
analysis, but which are of critical importance
for the project and the organization’s future
success.
How we select our team?
How we decide on our team composition?
What knowledge we are missing?
What are the good practices?
What not to do (antipatterns)?
Using unstructured data, open
data, social network to
discover the intangibles
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5. ONSOCIAL project
 Two major cases studies up to now
 How to locate experts with specific technical and
behavioral skills?
 a) what constitutes expertise evidence
 Technical skills and
 Behavioural skills
 b) how to identify expertise when project artifacts
 How to locate antipatterns?
 locate antipatterns
 Transform data to open data

6. Research question 1-
Expert location problem
 How to locate experts with specific technical
and behavioral skills?
 a) what constitutes expertise evidence
 Technical skills and
 Behavioural skills
 b) how to identify expertise when project artifacts

7. Research question –
Measure Social Capital
 Ego network size index for measuring the diversity
(different) of contacts.
 Ego average tie strength index for measuring the tie
strengths, which is the frequency of communication or
collaboration between two actors.
 Ego betweenness centrality index for measuring the
structural position (control the communication flow within
the group of people).
 Individual effectiveness index for measuring brokerage
and diversity.
 Contact status (power) for measuring the embeddedness
of resources. Power is measured either
 by degree centrality
 by betweenness centrality

8. …
Software Project Ontology
Personnel information
Personnel knowledge
evaluation
Knowledge management Team selection
Social network

9. ONSOCIAL system high level
use cases
employee
Donate Own
Social Network Data
facebook crawler
extend
LinkedIn crawler
Google+ crawler
extend
extend
Administrator
Construct Enterprise
Data Corpus
Define project
team requirements Project Manager
Select project team
Analyse Social Network
Enterprise data
Corpus
Construct/maintain
Ontology
HR manager
include

10. Building the enterprise corpus
Modelling the competences
Analyzing the social network
Locating and recommending
experts/project team members
ONSOCIAL approach

11. OnSOCIAL Project Technical
architecture
SQL database
Schema similar to HR-XML
In-memory and
persistent
storage – Jena

12. Research question 2-
SPM antipatterns
 How to locate software project management
antipatterns
 How to categorize antipatterns?
 How to make them available for collaborative
development?

13. What is an antipattern?
 An anti-pattern (or antipattern) is a common response
to a recurring problem that is usually ineffective and
risks being highly counterproductive. “Negative
Solutions,” or solutions that present more problems
than they address.
 natural extensions to design patterns
 Provide Knowledge to prevent and recover from
common Mistakes.
 The term, coined in 1995 by Andrew Koenig,was
inspired by a book, Design Patterns, which highlights a
number of design patterns in software development
that its authors considered to be highly reliable and
effective.

14. Patterns and antipatterns
Design Patterns AntiPatterns
Focuses on Successes Mistakes
Starting Point
Well-defined
Question/Problem-
based
Poorly Defined
Solution-based
Solution Maps
To
Unique Instance Recommended Path
Brown, Malveau, McCormick, and Moowbray.
AntiPatterns. John Wilwy & Sons, Inc.. 1998

15. Categories of antipatterns
 AntiPatterns can currently be found across a range of
disciplines including:
 Software Development
 Software Architecture
 Software Project Management
 Technology such as J2EE, Service Oriented Architecture,
etc.
 IT Business Management Organisational

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Antipattern Synopsis
Blowhard Jamboree Too many industry pundits influencing technology decisions.
Analysis Paralysis Relentless design and redesign of the system before construction.
Viewgraph Engineering Too much time spent building flashy presentations for customers and management rather than
working on the software.
Death by Planning Too much planning, not enough action.
Fear of Success Insecurities and irrational fears emerge near project completion.
The Corncob Any situation involving difficult people.
Intellectual Violence Use of a buzzword or arcane technology to intimidate others.
Irrational Management Habitual indecisiveness and other bad management habits.
Smoke and Mirrors Making overly aggressive use of demonstration systems for sales purposes.
Project Mismanagement Generally, any bad management practice.
Throw it over the Wall Management forces the latest practices or tools on the software staff without buy-in.
Fire Drill Months of monotony followed by a crisis, then more monotony.
The Feud Personality conflicts between managers that directly affect the software team.
E-Mail is Dangerous Any situation created by an ill-advised email (we’ve all wished we could have one back).
Management Antipatterns
(Brown)

17. Project Management
antipatterns
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18. 18 Antipattern format

19. Steps of our case study
Using the crawler to find
antipatterns
Analyzing the antipatterns
Using collaborative system
DENSE to develop further
Using DENSE to analyse cases
through symptoms analysis

20. Antipatterns Crawler (ArC)
 Developed based on crawler4j (java
library)
 Arc searches for antipatterns
 Uses a set of unique words (controlled
vocabulary)
 Use a limited set of phrases
 Uses a list of stopwords
 A page is relevant
FinalSimilarity = 0.2 ∗ AntipatternExists+ 0.6 ∗
VocabularySimilarity +0.2 ∗ PhraseSimilarity

21. Relevant words

22. Relevant
plrases

23. Results from our experiment
 The execution of ArC took place using the antipatterns
 Wikipedia page [11] and lasted approximately 50 hours.
 Project Management Institute (PMI) Web Page and
lasted approximately 75 hours.
 ZDNet.com (a business technology news website) and
 Personal blogs
 47 antipatterns were detected and were found in 10 different
Web pages.

25. DENSE system
 Based on ontology developed web protege
 Uses reasoner to find
 Symptoms lead to
 Concenquences
 Causes
 Antipatterns

26. Symptoms “focus on cost”

27. Full presentation symptoms,
consequences, causes

28. Conclusion
 We have presented
 Project management experiments
 Analysis data from social networks
 Analysis of web data
 Using crawling
 Using ontologies
 Building implicit knowledge that can offer new set of
tools for assisting project management

29. Antipatterns ontology