Supporting project management with the use of software engineering data

Based on software data from a software development project, a number of analyses have been carried out. The results discovered the reasons for cost overruns, showed how effort planning could be refined during development, and identified a relationship between the quality of the design documents and the effort consumed for their production. This provided an insight into the development process and establishes norms for interpreting metrics values obtained in future projects. In this way, it is a first step for a company towards increasing its software development process maturity level.