Software is developed and implemented by enterprises that wish to increase their efficiency and effectiveness. This process is often undertaken by persons who have little or no formal training in the field, particularly in developing countries. The results are frequently disadvantageous and often fatal to the enterprise. The University of Technology, Sydney has designed a special short postgrad...

This paper reports on results of experiments in the classroom with students following Project Management (PM) courses using a blended learning approach. It discusses the impact of communication on the student performance on business games as well as the advantage of the use of integrative case studies and their impact on the learning experience of these students. While the performance of studen...

This study identifies a list of constructs from popular literature to measure offshore vendor capabilities for an outsourced IT project. A pilot study was conducted with a scenario description of an actual offshore software project. Factor analytic techniques were employed on to elicit eight constructs to measure vendor capabilities. Validity and reliability data for the measure are reported.

Slice prooling is a tool which was developed as an aid in determining the cohesion of a software module. Slice prooles can be used, along with slice based metrics, during the maintenance phase of a software project to facilitate understanding of the system. In this paper, we present slice prooles and some slice based metrics. We then show, through an example, ways of utilizing these tools while...

A meta-analysis assessing the relationship between software size and software quality across 10 diverse software project studies spanning over 20 years suggests that the relationship between software size and quality is strong and significant. However, the analysis of several moderating variables indicates that technology, process and resource factors also help explain the variance in software ...

This paper proposes the InstantGrid framework for ondemand construction of grid points. In contrast to traditional approaches, InstantGrid is designed to substantially simplify software management in grid systems, and is able to instantly turn any computer into a grid-ready platform with the desired execution environment. Experimental results demonstrate that a 256-node grid point with commodit...

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