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Application of Data mining techniques in Agile Project Management

- Emerging trend in Project Management

By Pavan Kumar Gorakavi

Abstract

Project management is an artistic skill of getting things done using qualitative and quantitative methodologies. There are many quantitative approaches currently used in project management in order to access project, project status and to gain knowledge from historical data. Data mining is the process of extracting patterns from data. Data mining, or knowledge discovery, is the computer-assisted process of digging through and analyzing enormous sets of data and then extracting the meaning of the data.

This paper deals with qualitative implementation of Data mining techniques in project management to yield effective results. This paper primarily discuss about Data mining classification technique – Decision Tree, C4.5 algorithms which can be used to build a knowledge center for an Agile project based on historical statistics. This data mining application can be used in project planning, task estimations, and risk analysis.

This paper illustrates the use of data mining techniques in project planning and risk evaluations. I had developed an open source research application [Intelligent scrum planner http://spat.tigris.org ] to demonstrate the impact of data mining in Project Management. You can download this open source software from http://spat.tigris.org...

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About the Author Pavan Kumar Gorakavi Author Pavan Kumar Gorakavi. M.S, M.B.A, G.M.C.P, C.A.P.M is currently working as Sr. Software Developer in Dallas, TX. He is settled in Dallas with his small family [wife Swapna Gorakavi and son Anish Gorakavi]. He is VP - programs for asapm-young crew. Pavan did his bachelors in computer science from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in India and masters in computer science from Lamar University. He did his MBA from University of Texas at Dallas and GMCP from Southern Methodist School in Dallas. Pavan holds SUN, IBM and PMI certifications. Pavan Gorakavi is the author of books on ‘Artificial Intelligence’ published by Rahul publications - India, and ‘Digital Electronics’ published by Subhash publications, India. His research interests are Artificial Intelligence, Agile methodologies, and Software development in Ada, Prolog and Java. You can reach Pavan at gorakavi@gmail.com .