Software development processes such as the Waterfall process and Extreme Programming are Project Management Methods (PMMs) which are well known and widely used. However, conventional Project Management (PM) lacks the process concepts expressed in PMMs, and the connection between PMMs and PM is not much explored in the literature. Our research problem is to make this connection. We present data ...

Effective project management of software development efforts is one of the most challenging aspects within IT management today. Literature has greatly extended our understanding of project management characteristics that enhance the likelihood of software development project success. Nevertheless, a disconnect seems to exist between an individual’s knowledge of pertinent project management char...

Software projects require a right mix of the software resources and the expertise to increase the chances of timely completion. The interface for the resource allocation to the software projects is provided by the project factors. The identification of the comprehensive project factors for the diversified nature of projects in itself is an open research area. This paper is based on a quantitati...

A dynamic risk management framework for software projects is presented. Currently available software risk management frameworks and risk assessment models are static in nature and lacks feedback capability. Such risk management frameworks are not capable of providing the risk assessment of futuristic changes in risk events. A dynamic risk management framework for software project is needed that...

Software Project Management is a knowledge intensive process that can benefit substantially from ontology development and ontology engineering. Ontology development could facilitate or improve substantially the software development process through the improvement of knowledge management, the increase of software and artefacts reusability, and the establishment of internal consistency within pro...

This paper is a dedicated research on the way the fields of Software Product Management and Software Project Management collaborate with each other, within software product companies. It analyzes the dependencies between software product and software project and the relationships between product and project managers. The software product is defined based on the market success, customer satisfac...

Project management plays an important role in software engineering discipline. Project management is about delivering projects “on time”, “in budget” and “in quality”. Introducing, applying and improving project management process requires systematical and coordinated approach, which helps to overcome organizational barriers, reduce implementation cost, provide knowledge sharing and secure achi...

Traditional software project management theory often focuses on desk-based development of software and algorithms, much in line with the traditions of the classical project management and software engineering. This can be described as a tools and techniques perspective, which assumes that software project management success is dependent on having the right instruments available, rather than on ...

Software project teams have a wide range of software metrics and measurement models at their disposal to monitor important aspects of their software system, their development process and the team itself. Theoretically, monitoring allows a team to identify and solve problems in a timely manner. Unfortunately, in practice software project teams make little effective use of software metrics to ens...

The major determining factor of software quality is the effectiveness of testing. The reliability of software project delivered depends on the performance of the individuals in charge for testing the software. Individual testers diverge in their effectiveness and efficiency. The factors contributing to this difference have not been so far well studied. There are no standard methods for assessin...