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The SPMS Software Project Management System
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Peter J. Nicklin
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Division of Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics
Department of Civil Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California 94720
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The Software Project Management System (SPMS) is a system for the management
of medium- to large-scale software systems. SPMS provides, within the
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environment, a number of commands which can greatly simplify many tasks
associated with program development and maintenance. SPMS does not
attempt to duplicate existing
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program development tools such as
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or
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but instead provides a way of coordinating these tools.
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SPMS can be fitted to existing software systems. It retains the full
capabilities of the
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environment with unrestricted access to
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tools. As a result, software packages developed using SPMS do not depend
on the system for their survival and can be ported to versions of
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that do not support SPMS.
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