Software project failure and cancellation rates increase day by day due to technical failures, quality failures, lack of end client acceptance etc. and also the lack of proper management. Software project failure and cancellation rates increase due to the fact they have not been managed properly. This eventually leads a financial loss to the organization, perhaps the particular organization may...

By using the test-driven development practice of the Extreme Programming methodology, programmers write extensive automated unit and acceptance tests. This paper outlines an approach for utilizing the results of these automated tests to estimate software system reliability and for providing feedback to developers on the quality of their test cases. Our initial reliability estimation and feedbac...

The VALIDATE project, with 19 partners in nine European countries, started work in late 1995 to verify the DVB standard for digital terrestrial TV broadcasting and to prepare for the launch of services. The work of the Project verified the DVB-T specification, ensuring its acceptance by ETSI, and is now facilitating the early introduction of services. The VALIDATE workplan includes prototype mo...

Since this project is a result of a class assignment, it has been graded and accepted as fulfillment of the course requirements. Acceptance does not imply technical accuracy or reliability. Any use of the information in this report, including numerical data, is done at the risk of the user. These risks may include catastrophic failure of the device or infringement of patent or copyright laws. T...

From 2004 to 2007 the Business In the Grid (BIG) project took place and was driven by the following goals: Firstly, make business aware of Grid technology and, secondly, try to explore new business models. We disseminated Grid computing by mainly concentrating on the central European market and interviewed several companies in order to gain insights into the Grid acceptance in industrial enviro...

This paper illustrates how the model of computational media can be introduced in the field of higher education. In our practical work, we identified four distinct design spaces for learning media and named them as follows: artifact design space, agent design space, process design space, and business model design space. We have applied the design space approach in the UNIVERSAL project, an open,...

This paper introduces the project "EOMD Mining: EO Services Market Development for the Mining Sector", an Earth Observation Market Development (EOMD) activity within the framework of the ESA EOEP Market Development Element. High-level objectives of the project include the definition and implementation of a marketable integrated service for the mining market which includes satellite SAR based la...

Throughout the LHC project fieldbuses will be required to connect and control equipment and devices of various types. It will be necessary to integrate both industrial equipment and custom designed devices. In order to increase efficiency of resources a CERN working group recommends restricting the choice of fieldbuses, to be used in the years to come at CERN and by the various institutes colla...

There is a widespread acceptance that organising by projects is on the increase. In previous research on the management of projects, the majority of studies have adopted project-centric approaches, downplaying organisationor company-wide matters even in firms whose performance largely depends on the combined success of multiple projects. In this paper, we focus on the problem of management cont...

Each of n experts communicates with a principal about the privately observed quality of the expert’s own project via cheap talk, with new independently drawn projects available each period until the principal adopts one. Even when experts are highly biased in that they only receive a positive payoff if their own project is selected, we show that informative equilibria may exist, characterize a ...