Integrating Tools for Supporting Software Project Time Management: An Ontology-based Approach

Project Management is a complex process involving several activities and a large volume of information. There are several tools offering partial solutions for supporting this process, increasing the need for integrating some of them, in order to provide a fuller support to the Project Management process. This paper presents an integration initiative aiming at semantically integrating dotProject, a web-based project management application, to ODE, an Ontology-based software Development Environment. This integration initiative focuses on the project time management, mainly for supporting the following activities: definition of project activities, allocation of human resource to these activities, and scheduling. This initiative was conducted partially following OBA-SI, an Ontology-Based Approach for Semantic Integration, and it was done using a domain ontology built from a Software Process Ontology Pattern Language.