Structure of software for managing the activities of an IT company

This article is devoted to the development of software designed to manage the activities of a large IT company by assessing the start time of individual project tasks and assigning specialists to them. Optimizing the process of solving these two interrelated tasks is one of the key factors in the effective functioning of an IT company. In addition to the specific features of this industry, which include different qualifications of specialists, the need to finalize tasks after their completion, and others, a key factor in planning is the periodic occurrence of unplanned events that increase the duration of the project (for example, adjusting certain tasks after agreement with the customer, the emergence of new tasks during discussion, etc.). All this requires the use of new algorithms that take into account the above nuances. This necessitates the development of software that implements the main management mechanisms for IT companies and allows for a prompt response to random factors that lead to a change in the previously found characteristics of the IT project. This software will combine a management system, client applications that allow recording all the nuances related to individual tasks (their implementation, changes in customer requirements, correction, etc.) and a database containing all the data on the project tasks, their interdependence, specialists, etc. As a result, a software structure has been obtained that manages the activities of an IT company by planning the start time of individual tasks, assigning specialists to them, and monitoring execution by introducing subsystems for planning, correction and evaluation of stochastic parameters.

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