Successful software development projects depend, among other things, on their project manager’s leadership capabilities. This paper analyzes how specific leadership styles of IT project managers contributed to the success of a large IT project realized by an IT service provider in India. We conducted an interpretive case study following the principles of the Grounded Theory Methodology to explo...

Numerous studies over the years have shown that information systems development (ISD) projects often run over budget or fail entirely. Such failures are not restricted to certain industry sectors or project types; rather they occur with some regularity in systems development projects and organizations of all types and sizes. Cost estimation has long been a difficult task in systems development,...

Agile development methods are commonly used to iteratively develop the information systems and they can easily handle ever-changing business requirements. Scrum is one of the most popular agile software development frameworks. The popularity is caused by the simplified process framework and its focus on teamwork. The objective of Scrum is to deliver working software and demonstrate it to the cu...

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Capstone projects which provide the opportunity for student teams to experience ‘real-world’ software development form part of the final semester of study in many computing degrees. This paper describes a number of development methodologies that are currently used both in industry and software development capstone projects. Such projects are carried out under a unique set of constraints due to ...

We investigate the structures of collaboration in software development groups by analyzing the data derived from the versioning system SVN (subversion) for software projects of different types and sizes. Our research is part of the project “Economics of Networks in Information Systems” (EONIS) which aims to investigate the impact of network structures on the effectiveness of infrastructures, or...

While there is definitely a place for centrally delivered Professional Development (PD), staff often don’t transfer what they have learned in the PD sessions and return to their workspace usually continuing as before. This paper describes an evidenceand scholarship-based model of PD, where academic developers work closely with teaching staff on projects designed to address teaching needs specif...

Traceability is the ability to verify the history, location, or application of an entity by means of a documented record. It is considered to be one of the vital quality attribute of data warehouses and is of great interest to developers. Although traceability is a key success factor of data warehouse development projects but lack of a proper methodology has impeded the application of traceabil...