A meta-analysis assessing the relationship between software size and software quality across 10 diverse software project studies spanning over 20 years suggests that the relationship between software size and quality is strong and significant. However, the analysis of several moderating variables indicates that technology, process and resource factors also help explain the variance in software ...

Evaluating, monitoring, and improving the effectiveness of project management can contribute to successful acquisition of software systems. According to our empirical studies on a range of software development projects, half of the variation in software project success ratings may be explained by project management effectiveness measurements. To improve the quality of the management, to focus o...

A medium-sized west-European telecom company experienced a worsening trend in performance, indicating that the organization did not learn from history, in combination with much time and energy spent on preparation and review of project proposals. In order to create more transparency in the supplier proposal process a pilot was started on Functional Size Measurement pricing (FSM-pricing). In thi...

Software process improvement is seen by many as a viable strategy for overcoming the software crisis. It is, however, difficult to determine the actual effect of such improvement efforts. This paper reports from an organization that is implementing a software metrics program with the expressed purpose of measuring the effects of their improvement project. The metrics program is intended to meas...

We investigate software process diversity, defined as the project condition arising out of the simultaneous use of multiple software development process frameworks within a single project. We analyze the antecedents and consequences of software process diversity and examine the relationship among software process diversity, organizational process compliance, and software project performance. Ou...