CoNeX: Coordination and Negotiation Support for Expert Teams in Project Management

Abstract

Current technologies for group decision support only rarely account for the qualitative mechanisms underlying problem solving processes of multiple persons, i.e. on-going task negotiations, debates of contradictory issues, alterations of commitment-based contracts, e.g., redefining tasks due to resource allocation constraints or dynamic changes in the project environment. The CoNeX system* (COoperation and NEgotiation among eXperts) currently under development is particularly dedicated to integrate these qualitative aspects of group work [HJ88]. The application scenario considers the problem solving activities of physically distributed experts in the field of information system design, development, and maintenance under the perspective ofsoftware project management