Research Article

A Multicriteria Approach to Support Task Allocation in Projects of Distributed Software Development

Table 3

Total approaches that scored for each question.

Q. Id.DescriptionCount

PQ4Does the study mention any factor or criterion that influences the assignment of tasks in distributed software environments?11
SQ3Does the approach apply influencing factors extracted from the specific literature?11
SQ4Can the approach be instantiated from an organisation standard?8
SQ9Does the approach allow modifying the main parameters (allocation object and executing unit)?8
SQ2Does the approach have any automated support tool?6
SQ5Does the approach reuse knowledge?6
SQ10Has the approach been applied in real-world situations?6
SQ1Does the approach describe a process?5
SQ7Does the approach presuppose feedback of results?5
SQ8Does the approach allow using a subset of the whole process?5
SQ12Has the approachbeen evaluated by knowledge area experts?4
SQ11Has the approachbeen evaluated by users or professionals?3
PQ2Is the approach based on qualitative multi-criteria methods of decision-making?2
SQ6Does the approach presuppose consensus meeting?1
PQ3Is the approach based on any method of Verbal Decision Analysis framework?0