Agile methodologies are established in software development projects. Agility emphasizes, e.g. rapid development and facilitates communication among all stakeholders. Therefore, these principles might be useful in Business Process Modeling projects too. Till now, it is not clear how these principles could be applied in business process modeling. The contribution of this paper is a mapping of ch...

This paper introduces a hybrid software process simulation model that combines two common approaches to simulation discrete event and system dynamics. The purpose of the model is to support software project estimation as well as project management. Although the model was originally constructed for a specific software organization, it's use was never realized by that project. The model has been ...

the construction of underground tunnel plays a more and more important role in the development of big cities. one of the most important problems caused by the construction of the tunnel is that underground excavation will cause large settlement of the ground and buildings. previous studied showed the difference between numerical and experimental results. in this study the case study of niyayesh...

Accurate estimating is one of the most important activities in the field of software project management. Different aspects of software projects must be estimated among which time and effort are of significant importance to efficient project planning. Due to complexity of software projects and lack of information at the early stages of project, reliable effort estimation is a challenging issue. ...

This paper describes an empirical study of effort estimation in agile software development. Estimated effort and actual effort of a 46-iteration project are collected and analyzed. The results show that estimation in agile development is more accurate than that in traditional development even though agile developers still underestimate the effort. However, estimation accuracy is not improved ov...

Project selection is considered as an important problem in project management. It is multi-criteria in nature and is based on various quantitative and qualitative factors. The main purpose of this paper is to present a new rank-based method for project selection in outranking relation. According to this approach, decision alternatives were clustered in the concordance matrix and the discordance...

In the recent years, the academic literature has reported many different proposals addressing the problem of Software Release Planning (SRP). However, nearly none of these results has been transferred to commercial tools for project management, although many of these tools claim to support some SRP tasks. In this paper, we present a study on 119 project management tools to know to which extent ...

This paper describes the development of a decision support tool, an adoption assessment matrix based on critical adoption factors, that addresses a need in industry; namely, to improve the overall understanding of the constituent parts of agile systems development methodologies. It highlights the importance of critical adoption factors to the adoption of an agile method and illustrates the usef...

This paper presents an approach for collaborative project management. The focus is on the support of collaboration, communication and trust. Several project management tools exist for monitoring and control the performance of project tasks. However, support of important intangible assets is more difficult to find. In the paper a leadership approach is identified as a management means and the us...