DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18756269
title: Systematic Mapping Dataset: Key Artefacts and Transformations in IT Project Initiation

description: This dataset contains the structured mapping and analysis data supporting the International conference ENASE 2025 publication “Key Artefacts in the Initial Phases of IT Project Management”.  The dataset includes the identified IT project initiation artefacts, transformation relationships between artefacts, classification tables, mapping results, coding scheme, and extracted bibliographic metadata. It documents the systematic mapping process used to identify artefact dependencies and transformation chains in IT project inception and elaboration phases, enabling traceability, replication, and further research reuse.

Publication years: 2020–2024. 

Language: English.

Subject area: Computer Science. 

Search query: ("software" OR "information system") AND ("software development" OR "software project management") AND ("software requirement specification" OR "user story" OR "user stories") AND ("scrum" OR "kanban" OR "waterfall" OR "iterative" OR "incremental").

Study selection: The search returned 304 records. After screening for relevance and applying the inclusion/exclusion criteria, the final dataset includes 80 primary studies aligned with the review scope.

The SLR results were published in “Key Artefacts in the Initial Phases of IT Project Management: Systematic Mapping Study” (DOI: 10.5220/0013471000003928).

Workbook "Papers to analyze" (150 records) - main extraction table (paper-level). Includes bibliographic metadata and extracted input/output artefacts, representations (notation/language/document type), and obtaining method.

Column descriptions:



ID - Paper identifier (Primary study number).

Title - Paper title.

Input artefact type - Artefact group/category for the input artefact.

Input artefact - Input artefact described in the paper.

Input notation / language / document type - Notation, language, or document type used to describe or represent the input artefact.

Output artefact type - Artefact group/category for the output artefact.

Output artefact - Output artefact described in the paper.

Output notation / language / document type - Notation, language, or document type used to describe or represent the output artefact.

Obtaining method - Description of how the output artefact was obtained from the input (as reported in the paper).

Comments - Additional notes and observations.

DOI - Digital Object Identifier.

Contributors - Paper authors.

Year - Publication year.

Reference - In-text reference format (Contributors, Year).


Workbook "Grouping after extraction" contains consolidated grouping of artefact types after extraction of relevant papers and artefact groups that are included in IT Project initiation phase.

This research has been supported by research and development grant  No. PA-2024/1-0015 “Model-Based Methodology for Development of IT Project Management Plan and Scope Using Artificial Intelligence Algorithms” under the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility funded project No. 5.2.1.1.i.0/2/24/I/CFLA/003 “Implementation of consolidation and management changes at Riga Technical University, Liepaja University, Rezekne Academy of Technology, Latvian Maritime Academy and Liepaja Maritime College for the progress towards excellence in higher education, science, and innovation”.