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Multidimensional Effort Prediction for ERP System Implementation

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops (OTM 2006)

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The Ph.D. thesis builds upon the state-of-the-art in effort prediction for ERP-implementation projects. While current approaches use the complexity of the technical system as only indicator for estimation, a multidimensional key ratio scorecard is developed to enhance the quality of effort prediction. Key ratios from the technical dimension are extended towards service-oriented architectures as the upcoming, dominating architectural ERP concept. Within the organizational dimension, competencies of the project team are evaluated and quantified as key ratios. Key ratios from the situational dimension are used for approximating the expected degree of employee cooperation. As fuzzy key ratios cannot be manually derived from business requirements, an IT-based tool is designed, prototypically realized and empirically evaluated in order to be used for retrieval of defined key ratios in the scorecard.

An erratum to this chapter can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11915072_109.

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  1. Institute for Information Systems at the, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123, Saarbruecken, Germany

    Torben Hansen

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  1. STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Bldg G/10, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Robert Meersman

  2. School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University, Bld 10.10, 376-392 Swanston Street, 3001, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Zahir Tari

  3. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo S/N, 28660, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

    Pilar Herrero

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Hansen, T. (2006). Multidimensional Effort Prediction for ERP System Implementation. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z., Herrero, P. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops. OTM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4278. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11915072_44

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