Project management (PM) and systems engineering (SE) practitioners academics experience various challenges regarding meaningful interaction while seeking project success. This situation exists despite sophisticated PM SE software tools, the existing body of knowledge documents different professional bodies, numerous publications addressing this challenge. Generally, projects are fragmented from...

Since the advent of electronic computers, people have struggled to develop effective software engineering processes. While these processes are similar to those used by hardware engineers, the software industry has earned a reputation for late delivery of inadequate products. Most software managers are looking for ways to deliver quality products faster, or with fewer resources. The development ...

In this paper, we propose a scheme, named Software Tag, of software trade and development for improvement of traceability and transparency. Empirical data is collected during development, and processed into two types, open tag and secret tag, composing a software tag which is finally delivered to software purchaser.

Software project effort estimation is defined as one of the most difficult tasks in software engineering, embodying extensive uncertainty and vagueness in estimation parameters. In order to deal with this uncertainty, it has been suggested that the fuzzy approach can be employed in the effort estimation process. This work in progress paper is a proof of the concept that the estimation approach ...

Overoptimistic predictions are common in software engineering projects, e.g., the average software project cost overrun is about 30%. This paper examines the use of two popular general tests of optimism (the ASQ and the LOT-R test) to select software engineers that are less likely to provide overoptimistic predictions. A necessary, but not sufficient, condition for this use is that there is a s...

With a long history in project management practices, project performance measurement (PPM) offers a wide range of methods and good practices which help project managers to effectively monitor the project and evaluate project progress and results. However, several critical issues remain, such as an unbalanced development of KPIs types or a limited availability of leading Key Performance Indicato...