The unresolved problems of improving software engineering management require a broader systemic approach of investigating related issues like software development productivity. The paper links software engineering management to research on software cost estimation and on factors affecting software development productivity. It examines ways for the systemic incorporation of all issues influencin...

3 The efficiency of software development (i. e. to produce good software products based on an efficient software process) must be controlled by a quantification of the software development methodologies. The description of object-oriented (OO) methods or comparisons of some of these methods are usually given by a listing of their features. These presentations describe the functionality of a par...

Knowledge and experience management is a key factor for learning software organizations. Consequently, many organizations are operating their own repositories to systematically store their knowledge and experience, and to provide them to the right users, at the right time. However, once a repository is successfully installed (which is a non-trivial task to start with) new challenges arise when ...

Our research explores the combination of synchronous and asynchronous collaboration tools for global software development. In this paper we assess the impact of tool-mediated inspections to improve requirements negotiation meetings with stakeholders spread over different continents. We present the design of our investigation in an educational environment, in a course where the clients and devel...

Minimum-maximum effort intervals are applied in the planning of software development projects in order to, among other things, determine the contingency buffer. Several studies suggest that judgment-based minimummaximum intervals are based on a systematic over-confidence in the accuracy of the effort estimates. In this paper, we investigate whether the possession by estimators of information ab...

Software development projects have historically been challenged with respect to producing a quality product. To some extent, this can be attributed to the complex, dynamic, and highly intellectual process of creating software. While efforts have been made to support both process execution and knowledge management with automated systems in software engineering (SE), the effective dissemination o...

Supply chain management must adopt different and more innovative strategies that support a better response to customer needs in an uncertain environment. Supply chains must be more agile and be more capable of coping with disturbances, meaning that supply chains must be more resilient. The simultaneous deployment of agile and resilient approaches will enhance supply chain performance and compet...

The importance of people factors for the success of software development is commonly accepted. The success of a software project is largely determined by having the right people on the right place at the right time. As software development is a knowledge intensive industry, the ‘quality’ of these people is primarily determined by their knowledge and skills. Knowledge and skills are an important...

Software project management is one of the most challenging in software development. Software projects are important part into almost every business application. It is quality, efficiency and effectiveness of these applications will determine the failure or success of many business solutions. Over the past few decades, software projects often failed to come up to user expectations, by it were co...

In the face of changing technology, the world is becoming more global by the minute. This globalization has resulted in dispersed teams and collaborative opportunities, which offer value and depth to projects. Software development also reflects this globalization, as do all the processes involved in software development. It is important to understand these changes and how they affect not only t...