Software quality management has to effectively deploy resources for quality assurance activities in order to reflect the achieved product quality. Therefore, quality managers should exploit their creative freedom to direct their courses of action within the economic constraints. We present a method-based approach for better effectiveness. The product riskand valuebased method is applicable in t...

The objective of this article is to compare a generic set of project management processes as defined in Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) with a number of agile project management processes. PMBOK is developed by Project Management Institute and it is structured around five process groups (initiating, planning, execution, controlling and closure) and nine knowledge areas (integration...

Software engineering is a complex business in which processes, used to build product, have to go through many phases with involvement of many people. All these phases required different knowledge expertise to work together and apply innovative ideas to return successful outcome without missing the quality and reliability factors from the developed product. So software engineering can be defined...

Agile models promote fast development. XP and Scrum are the most widely used agile models. This paper investigates the phases of XP and Scrum models in order to identify their potentials and drawbacks. XP model has certain drawbacks, such as not suitable for maintenance projects and poor performance for medium and large-scale development projects. Scrum model has certain limitations, such as la...

Software Engineering Ethics Research Institute, East Tennessee State University, USA ABSTRACT A narrow approach to risk analysis and understanding the scope of a software project has contributed to significant software failures. A process is presented which expands the concept of software risk to include social, professional, and ethical risks that lead to software failure. Using an expanded ri...

Two different types of development tasks are distinguished: Clear and unclear development tasks. Based on hypotheses from organizational theory two different designs of software development are derived. The transformational design is appropriate if the development task is clear. In case of an unclear development task software development should employ the adaptive design. The transformational d...

Software prototyping is considered to be one of the most important tools that are used by software engineers nowadays to be able to understand the customer’s requirements, and develop software products that are efficient, reliable, and acceptable economically. Software engineers can choose any of the available prototyping approaches to be used, based on the software that they intend to develop ...

In software development the most important asset is knowledge. Much of this knowledge is tacit, and given its elusive nature, this creates a challenge for organisations. In practice most organisational KM strategies are codification strategies or personalisation strategies. We use this distinction to guide a review of typical practices in agile software development that address knowledge manage...