Project Management and Design for Syndromic Surveillance Software

Management of software development projects involves a collection of well understood issues which are not often found in other project management areas. Identifying and managing these issues primarily requires that the manager is aware of the potential problems which can arise while developing software and what are the appropriate measures to control such problems.

Objective

Interest in syndromic surveillance through automated software systems is becoming more common and with this interest is an increase in small to medium sized software development projects. This paper discusses some of the common project management problems which occur when developing software in a community which does not have a long history of working in this area.