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Don Harter
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Don Harter
Assistant Professor of MIS

(315) 443-3502
Room 534
dharter@syr.edu

PhD (information systems), Carnegie Mellon University

Curriculum Vitae: Harter_vita_2009_08_24.pdf

Research Interests
Professor Harter’s research focuses on project management and software process improvement. This research examines the organizational benefits of process maturity on software quality, development effort, and development time. His current work examines the effect of software improvements on personal issues, including hiring policies, salaries, promotions, attrition, management span of control, and organziational design. 

Selected Publications
"Impact of Budget and Schedule Pressure on Software Development Cycle Time and Effort," forthcoming, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, with Ning, N.
 
"Quality Improvement and Infrastructure Activity Costs in Software Development: A Longitudinal Analysis," Management Science, 49(6) 784-800,  with Slaughter, S., June 2003.  

"Cognitive Support for Real-Time Dynamic Decision-Making," Information Systems Research (ISR), 12(1) 63-82, March 2001.