Blended teaching is a method integrating classroom and online learning. Based on OBE (Outcome-based education), this paper proposes some reform ideas for blended by software project management curriculum. Project driven, flipped classroom, vivid animations, MOOC video cases study etc. are adopted to improve the self-study ability team work of students. Although it takes more time study, gain hi...

the dynamic nature of projects and the fact that they are carried out in changing environments, justify the need for their periodic monitoring and control. collection of information about the performance of projects at control points costs money. the corrective actions that may need to be taken to bring the project in line with the plan also costs money. on the other hand, penalties are usually...

For a software project to succeed, acceptable quality must be achieved within an acceptable cost, providing business value to the customers, and keeping delivery time short. Software testing is a strenuous and expensive process and is often not organized to maximize business value. In this article, we propose a practical value based software testing method which aligns the internal test process...

This paper demonstrates the difference between theoretical quality design and practical quality issues and problems, as these were documented for a typical software project. The aim of this paper is to share with readers conclusions based on over ten years of experience in software projects management and research in the field of software quality assurance by presenting simple issues related to...

This paper discusses patterns about the lead roles of a software development team: The Product Manager who is the interface to the customer, the Project Manager who allocates the resources and the Architect who designs the software and leads the developers. A fourth pattern discusses how these roles act as hubs and how they relate to each other. The view is based on the project management trian...

Introducing Extreme Programming (XP) to an industrial software development team usually involves technical and professional aspects as well as social and organizational ones. The introducing of a new software development method in general and XP in particular into a software project team that operates in the army emphasizes and extends these issues. In this paper we present a process through wh...

The paper explores the role of artificial intelligence techniques in the development of an enhanced software project management tool, which takes account of the emerging requirement for support systems to address the increasing trend towards distributed multi-platform software development projects. In addressing these aims this research devised a novel architecture and framework for use as the ...