The challenges and realities in applying effective software risk management processes are difficult, in particular integrating the risk management processes into software development organizations. However, the benefits of implementing effective risk management tools and techniques in software development project are equally great. Current perceptions and emerging trends of various software ris...

In software-intensive organizations, an organizational management system will not guarantee organizational success unless the business strategy can be translated into a set of operational software goals. The Goal Question Metric (GQM) approach has proven itself useful in a variety of industrial settings to support quantitative software project management. However, it does not address linking so...

Increasing litigation in the software industry is a growing concern for software engineers. In some cases it can be a serious threat to the software commercial and financial success. Looking at current software best practice frameworks and international standards we have not found any guidance on legal assurance for software engineers. Project Management standards such as the Project Management...

Due to rapid changes in software applications, especially incorporating the demands of self-regulating technologies becomes a major challenge projects. This research focuses on technological, managerial, and procedural challenges, which are believed most significant factors contributing projects failure. To address these issues, this study proposes Monolithic Ontological Methodology (MOM) addre...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This case details a classroom-based research and development project facilitated with management approaches adapted from the software industry to the classroom, specifically a combination of the methods generally known as 'Scrum' and 'Agile'. Scrum Management and Agile Software Development were developed in response to the difficulties of project management in the constantly c...

Complex software development is a risky job. The number of unsuccessful projects largely surpasses the number of successful developments. Many studies relate this situation to non-technical problems, especially to inadequate project management. This thesis intends to develop a scenario based project management paradigm, which is based on separately describing a software project expected behavio...