Research Descriptor Based Project Management Approach for R&D Projects

R&D projects, unlike existing System Integration (SI) projects or software development projects, are ambiguous in their goal or the resolution methods in order to reach that goal. It also has limits in having applied the waterfall model, repeated and incremental spiral models, or agile methodology which is usually applied to System Integration projects or software development projects. In order to overcome these constraints, this paper defined the various forms of work products generated across the entire cycle of the R&D project, their major keywords and core sentences as the Research Descriptor, and through a project management based on the content, an analysis of the semantics of the content that composes the WorkProducts, a semantic-based test and traceability were supported. By monitoring the project quality metric, the paper suggests a Research Descriptor based project management approach that can be applied to R&D projects with ambiguous goals or resolution methods.