Distributed software development (DSD) is becoming popular due to the potential of delivering highquality software products in a timely and economical manner. Recently, practitioners started to apply agile software development methods to their DSD environment. However, there are not many empirical researches that have reported whether the agile methods are really viable for distributed software...

Physical mapping has been rediscovered as an important component of large-scale sequencing projects. Restriction maps provide landmark sequences at defined intervals, and high-resolution restriction maps can be assembled from ensembles of single molecules by optical means. Such optical maps can be constructed from both large-insert clones and genomic DNA, and are used as a scaffold for accurate...

In modern well known approaches, “agile” has emerged as the leading approach in software industry for the development of the software projects. With different innovative shapes agile is applicable for handling the issues regarding cost, time, continuously change environment and requirements. Agile has proved to be successful in the small and medium size project, however, it have several limitat...

Many large and distributed companies run agile projects in development environments that are inconsistent with the original agile ideas. Problems that result from these inconsistencies can affect the productivity of development projects and the timeliness of releases. To be effective in such contexts, the agile ideas need to be adapted. We take an inductive approach for reaching this aim by bas...

New information technology developments continue to have a significant impact on large-scale architectural/engineering/construction (A/E/C) projects. However, the issue of whether A/E/C organizations are receiving adequate returns from their information technology (IT) investments remains an important managerial concern. Earlier work on financial models has concentrated on firm-wide strategies ...

The inherent complexity of large-scale information integration efforts has led to the proliferation of numerous metadata capabilities to improve upon project management, quality control and governance. In this paper, we utilise complex information integration projects in the context of SAP application consolidation to analyse several new metadata capabilities, which enable improved governance a...