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Optimizing software and methods for resource management

Björklund, Alex LU (2024) In CODEN:LUTEDX/TEIE EIEL05 20241
Industrial Electrical Engineering and Automation
Abstract
In 2014 during an organisational restructuring of Sony Electronics in Lund, an
ongoing inhouse project to develop a resource management software was
rushed to completion. The software had at the time been in active development
by a team of software engineers for over a year but was quickly brought to
completion to meet the new directives. Without clear product ownership and
review, the software and its usage gradually stagnated and resulted in a shroud
of uncertainty surrounding the workflow.
Ten years later with only minor changes to the code base and workflow,
questions are being raised by the project management office about the efficacy
of the current solution. This thesis is a case study in the consequences of
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In 2014 during an organisational restructuring of Sony Electronics in Lund, an
ongoing inhouse project to develop a resource management software was
rushed to completion. The software had at the time been in active development
by a team of software engineers for over a year but was quickly brought to
completion to meet the new directives. Without clear product ownership and
review, the software and its usage gradually stagnated and resulted in a shroud
of uncertainty surrounding the workflow.
Ten years later with only minor changes to the code base and workflow,
questions are being raised by the project management office about the efficacy
of the current solution. This thesis is a case study in the consequences of
legacy software and how inefficacies form from accommodating shortcomings
of internal software tools.
The workflow was investigated and information surrounding the resource
management software at Sony in Lund was compiled and analysed. With
stakeholder interviews and literature studies several ways forward are
ultimately put forward. In order of increasing potential cost and risk they were
concluded to be:
1. Maintaining the current software
2. Middleware-based solution preserving as much of the current software
implementation as possible.
3. Clean slate project for future maintainability and adaptability to change.
Due to complexity and cost, commercial enterprise resource planning
solutions were deemed not viable for Sony Electronics in Lund and therefore
not presented as a possible solution. (Less)
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author
Björklund, Alex LU
supervisor
organization
course
EIEL05 20241
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Optimization, legacy code, stakeholder demands, project management, cost estimation, database interfacing
publication/series
CODEN:LUTEDX/TEIE
report number
3133
language
English
id
9169756
date added to LUP
2024-10-02 15:48:44
date last changed
2024-10-02 15:48:44
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  abstract     = {{In 2014 during an organisational restructuring of Sony Electronics in Lund, an 
ongoing inhouse project to develop a resource management software was 
rushed to completion. The software had at the time been in active development 
by a team of software engineers for over a year but was quickly brought to 
completion to meet the new directives. Without clear product ownership and 
review, the software and its usage gradually stagnated and resulted in a shroud 
of uncertainty surrounding the workflow. 
Ten years later with only minor changes to the code base and workflow, 
questions are being raised by the project management office about the efficacy 
of the current solution. This thesis is a case study in the consequences of 
legacy software and how inefficacies form from accommodating shortcomings 
of internal software tools. 
The workflow was investigated and information surrounding the resource 
management software at Sony in Lund was compiled and analysed. With 
stakeholder interviews and literature studies several ways forward are 
ultimately put forward. In order of increasing potential cost and risk they were 
concluded to be: 
1. Maintaining the current software 
2. Middleware-based solution preserving as much of the current software 
implementation as possible. 
3. Clean slate project for future maintainability and adaptability to change. 
Due to complexity and cost, commercial enterprise resource planning 
solutions were deemed not viable for Sony Electronics in Lund and therefore 
not presented as a possible solution.}},
  author       = {{Björklund, Alex}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  series       = {{CODEN:LUTEDX/TEIE}},
  title        = {{Optimizing software and methods for resource management}},
  year         = {{2024}},
}