Agile Software Development (ASD) methodology has become widely used in the industry. Understanding the challenges facing software engineering students is important to designing effective training methods to equip students with proper skills required for effectively using the ASD techniques. Existing empirical research mostly focused on eXtreme Programming (XP)based ASD methodologies. There is a...

This poster presents the educational Hard Choices board game that simulates design decision process to communicate the concepts of design strategies in the face of uncertainty. At the end of the game, players experience the implications of investing effort to gain an advantage or paying a price to take shortcuts during software development in the race to become market leader. The game has been ...

This paper describes a framework for evaluating and selecting suitable software tools for a software project, which is easily extendable depending on needs of the project. For an evaluation, we applied the presented framework in three different projects. These projects use different software development methods (from classical models to Scrum) in different environments (industry and academia). ...

Evaluating, monitoring, and improving the effectiveness of project management can contribute to successful acquisition of software systems. According to our empirical studies on a range of software development projects, half of the variation in software project success ratings may be explained by project management effectiveness measurements. To improve the quality of the management, to focus o...

Abstract— This paper deals with the comparative study of agile processes. The paper will serve as guide to other software development process models. Agile processes have important applications in the areas of software project management, software schedule management, etc. In particular the aim of agile processes is to satisfy the customer, faster development times with lower defects rate. This...

In order to organize and manage a software development project successfully, one must combine specific knowledge, skills, efforts, experience, capabilities, and even intuition. They are all necessary in order to be able answer questions such as: What artifacts to manage and control during software development? How to organize the development team? What are the indicators and measures of the pro...

Ericsson has successfully developed two large-scale telecommunication systems based on reusing the same software architecture, software process, and many other core assets. The approach to initiating a product family has been a lightweight approach, and many artifacts are evolved during product family adoption, although not to the same degree. The software architecture has evolved to support re...

SUMMARY Non-safety critical software developers have been reaping the benefits of adopting agile practices for a number of years. However, developers of safety critical software often have concerns about adopting agile practices. Through performing a literature review, this research has identified the perceived barriers to following agile practices when developing medical device software. A que...

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...