An Open Source Software (OSS) project can be considered as a new type of business entity involving various roles and stakeholders, e.g., project managers, developers, and users, who apply individual methods. The project managers have the responsibility to manage the OSS development in a way that the OSS product can be delivered to the customers in time and with good quality. This responsibility...

Studies have shown that project managers are responsible for the successful management of various projects. Increasingly, this success depends on manager being a knowledge worker (KW)—i.e., possessing and utilizing both “hard” “soft” skills/competencies to manage assigned Nonetheless, there has not been enough studies what these competencies are, especially in context developing countries (DCs)...

This paper proposes System Test Point (STP), a new metric for estimating system test effort. The proposed Metric encompasses various attributes, which affect testing effort and can be tailored to a specific project environment. A survey was conducted for expert ratings on the 12 identified attributes, which affect system testing. A Software package "RISK 4.0" was used to find the correlation be...

The primary purpose of this research study is two-fold: Firstly, to establish the knowledge base of project managers in the South African ICT Sector. Secondly, to establish whether project management as a discipline is regarded as an important profession in the South African ICT Sector. The paper based on a questionnaire analyses and discusses the knowledge base of project managers of ICT organ...

Project risk management is the systematic utilisation of a process by project managers to identify, analyse and respond to risks posed by events and conditions that are not definitely known in advance but which may adversely affect IT project success. However, although best practice standards in project risk management are applied in information technology (IT) project management, IT project ma...

The aim of a multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem (MRCPSP) is to assign resource(s) with the restricted capacity to an execution mode of activities by considering relationship constraints, to achieve pre-determined objective(s). These goals vary with managers or decision makers of any organization who should determine suitable objective(s) considering organization strategi...