Software project management is one of the critical activities in software development process. Many software development projects fail due to poor management of projects. The main aim of software project management team is to count what is countable, measure what is measurable and prepare measurable parameters for continuously monitor and manage a software development project. One of the very i...

The earned value method is an internationally recognized project management tool for tracking progress on projects. It periodically calculates the earned value of their completed project tasks, discovers the schedule and cost variances of the projects from the baseline, and thus helps to timely take measures to adjust and control the projects. Despite its popularity, it has not been widely appl...

Although software development projects increasingly incorporate virtual team members they still fall prey to risks which produce challenges as do co-located projects. Most research performed on project risk was conducted on projects using traditional co-located team members. This paper reports on the results of a survey of over 150 Information Technology (IT) practitioners. One goal of the surv...