ALIGNING SOFTWARE PROJECT DECISIONS: A CASE STUDY

Aligning Software Project Decisions: a Case Study

Recent research in software engineering has highlighted the need to ensure alignment between business objectives, customer requirements and product development. If the business is to meet its strategic objectives, the Requirements Engineering (RE) activities must be executed in a manner such that they support these higher level objectives. A clear alignment between RE activities and the strateg...

Global Software Project Management: A Case Study

Case Study: SITINA - A Software Engineering Project

This paper presents a case study based on a complex software engineering project that took place in a Portuguese SME, Small to Medium sized Enterprise. Our initial goal was to evaluate and adapt Software Engineering theory to the reality of SMEs, usually working in chaotic environments, and following no standard method. We refer to such absence of method as the just do it process model. We shor...

Aligning Software Development Investment Decisions with the Markets

Risk, or exposure to uncertainty, is an inherent part of software development. Therefore, risk is an important factor in making investment decisions about software development. This position paper illustrates a disciplined approach to treating risk, an approach that allows software development decisions to be aligned with the capital markets. We start from the premise that uncertainty creates v...

The Holon Framework: A Software Project Post-Mortem Case Study

This paper introduces the Holon Framework, which aims to improve and control the software development process. It is an interdisciplinary approach that is derived from the Systems Movement and Software Engineering, combining aspects of Soft Systems Thinking and Hard Systems Thinking. An overview of the soft and hard part of the Holon Framework is provided. The soft part of the framework, which ...