Although there is general acknowledgement that socio-psychological forces have important implications for knowledge management, they are difficult to conceptualise and analyse. This paper presents framework for studying socio-psychological forces in knowledge activities. The utility of the framework is demonstrated by applying it to a case study that examines the impact of national culture on t...

The frequently observed positive impact of adopting risk management strategies on projects’ overall outcome has led many software development organizations to appreciate its significant role in the pursuit of cost reduction, schedule overruns decrease and, generally, improved performance. In line with this issue, this study investigates a wide range of relevant literature, proposes a new concep...

Requirements engineering (RE) practices are critical to success during the development of business software. As managers assess RE practices, they apply specific perspectives that determine problems identified and recommendations for improvement. Two perspectives have recently dominated managerial thinking within the software industry, one rooted in software process improvement and the other ro...

With the advent of agile development methods such as SCRUM, the unpredictable and dynamic process of software development has for the first time become manageable in an efficient manner. It is no surprise that these developments have resulted in an increased interest in the expansion of agile principles to other domains. One of these domains is product management, which involves mainly the elic...

A software development project coordinates work by using work items that represent customer, tester, and developer found defects, enhancements, and new features. We set out to facilitate software project planning by modeling the flow of such work items and using information on historic projects to predict the work flow of an ongoing project. The history of the work items is extracted from probl...

Different software development methodologies exist. Choosing the methodology that best fits a software project depends on several factors. One important factor is how risky the project is. Another factor is the degree to which each methodology supports risk management. Indeed, the literature is rich in such studies that aim at comparing the currently available software development process model...

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...

The aim of this paper is to propose new mining techniques by which we can study the impact of different risk management techniques and different software risk factors on software analysis development projects. The new mining technique uses the fuzzy multiple regression analysis techniques with fuzzy concepts to manage the software risks in a software project and mitigating risk with software pr...

This paper describes a software development environment called FMS. This environment aims to generate farm management applications through a semi-automatic process with decreasing cost as time evolves, providing domain experts with tools for rapid and reliable information gathering about their production process. It is also related the current situation of FMS, as well as the experience acquire...

Software Configuration Management (SCM) is now recognized by the Software Engineering world as important aspect of software development especially for large and complex software systems. It has also become a vital part of the most widely used software process improvement frameworks. Software Product Line is a new phenomenon that has gained considerable attention during the last decade as an eff...