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The actual development of the IT sector generated software products that are now a significant part of any field. The increasing number of IT products led to changes in the project management of software development. If, in the beginnings, the project management tools were limited and included approaches such as: the waterfall model, the incremental spiral model, prototyping, and rapid application...
In seeking to complement consultants' and tool vendors' reports, there has been an increasing academic focus on understanding the adoption and use of software development methods and practices. We surveyed practitioners working in Brazil, Finland, and New Zealand in a transnational study to contribute to these efforts. Among our findings we observed that most of the 184 practitioners in our sample...
One of the leading causes of IT system failures is the failure of IT system development or operational projects. These developmental or operational failures may result from software faults or erroneous IT system setups or operation. To prevent such failures and their recurrence, it is essential to clarify the reasons for past failures. This paper proposes a method to clarify the causes of IT system...
Predicting how much effort will be required to complete a software project as early as possible is a very important factor in the success of software development projects. Including function points and its variants, there are several size measures and corresponding measurement methods that can be used for effort estimation. However, in most of the projects, there is limited amount of information available...
With the gradual integration of Chinese economy and the global economy, large domestic construction enterprises are playing more and more important roles in the international arena. While globalization makes the market environment more and more complex, Chinese construction enterprises have to face the competition environment changing from relatively inward to open. And the competing level of these...
This work has the goal of investigating the relationship between the use of agile practices and the success of software projects that use Scrum. The method used in the investigation was a cross-sectional survey that collected data from 62 software engineers associated to 11 projects in 9 different software firms, representing 75% of the population in the studied projects. The results show that only...
This paper puts forward a new method (Cost Assessment of the inter-Project Dependence with Correlation Right algorithm) for quantitative analysis to the dependence of inter-project. It is a good guide for the project development and implementation. It can make a great help for program designer, programmer, and program users to analyze the special project. It provides a quantitative value; and with...
Under current business environment, product development becomes an important way for a firm to enhance its competitive power. Yet in practice, most product development project fail. This paper tries to discover the key elements for its success or failure by way of survey investigation, whose conclusion can be categorized into 6 issues, i.e. organization management, knowledge management, product development...
Software defects are usually detected by inspection, black-box testing or white-box testing. Current software defect mining work focuses on mining frequent patterns without distinguishing these different kinds of defects, and mining with respect to defect type can only give limited guidance on software development due to overly broad classification of defect type. In this paper, we present four kinds...
It is estimated that the success rate of IT project maintain below 30%, and this figure are even lower in china. There must be some common factors that led to an unsuccessful project. This paper tries to treat the problem with following method. Firstly, we give the criteria of a failure project based on the research of the definition of success, and extract five major factors that contribute to the...
The growth of offshore outsourcing of software projects is phenomenonal. Offshore outsourcing generally occurs from developed nations to developing nations. It is undeniable that several major issues, such as culture, could subtly influence the success of such projects. Mum effect is an important risk in offshore outsourcing of software projects. The degree of intensity and probability of this particular...
Defining requirements without satisfying success critical stakeholders often leads to expensive project failures. Enabling interdisciplinary stakeholders to rapidly and effectively collaborate in development of globally-usable software-intensive systems remains a major challenge. At USC, 32 real-client, graduate-level team projects experimented with using the wiki-based requirements negotiation support...
This paper discusses our experience in building a framework for effort estimation and applying it in a local environment of sample Egyptian companies. The framework focuses on minimizing effort variance by enhancing the adjustments made to the functional sizing techniques. A special focus was made on the adjustment factors, which reflects the application's complexity and the actual environment in...
Software production has become a focus of major economic activities all over the world. This paper presents an evaluation of 63 software projects in a big Canadian bank using data envelopment analysis (DEA). DEA model was developed to measure software project efficiency focusing on the factors that affect software productivity and suggestions were offered on how DEA could be used to improve their...
A model of risk assessment is introduced to the estimation of software project. The model combines AHP method and entropy method to confirm the risk weight of software project, and then use the combined weight and grey correlation analysis method to calculate the improved grey correlation degree. Finally, through introducing preference coefficient, grey approach degree of the risk of software project...
Software development inclined to production of scale, criterion and industrialization, with the development of information technology and software industry. Different kinds of Project Maturity Models for enhancing performances of software development were broadly exploited and used factually. Based on literature review and enterprise research this paper put forward 30 main factors which cover in three...
Focusing on formal project management initiatives (PMIs) in the information technology (IT) sector in China, this paper first examines possible differences in perception about such PMIs between IT professionals who were exposed to their implementation and those who weren??t. This part of the investigation is based on an adaptation of Rogers?? theory of diffusion of innovations. Second, this paper...
Software companies are currently investing large amounts of money in software process improvement initiatives in order to enhance their products' quality. These initiatives are based on software quality models, thus achieving products with guaranteed quality levels. In spite of the growing interest in the development of precise prediction models to estimate effort, cost, defects and other project's...
To estimate software effort according to software size, statistical analysis was held using the historical project data. The tool statistics method and the programming statistics method were adopted independently for linearity regression analysis. After the regression analysis, the linearity regression equation was obtained. The final studies showed that the outcomes obtained by these two methods...
Distribution of effort in software engineering process has been the basis for facilitating more reasonable software project planning. This paper reports empirical results on activity effort distribution patterns of a series of industrial software maintenance projects. The results show that with respect to different influencing factors, the projects demonstrate large variations in their activity effort...
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