A successful cogeneration system design project needs an estimation of the economical parameters of the project, including capital investment, costs of fuel, expenses in maintenance and operating, and the proper cost for the products. This study describes the economic consideration of the benchmark cogeneration systems, called CGAM system located in the United States. To evaluate the profitabil...

Context: Requirements Engineering (RE) is a critical discipline mostly driven by uncertainty, since it is influenced by the customer domain or by the development process model used. Volatile project environments restrict the choice of methods and the decision about which artefacts to produce in RE. Objective: We aim to investigate RE processes in successful project environments to discover char...

Various effectiveness and efficiency metrics have been proposed for defect-detection techniques and quality assurance. This report aims at introducing and comparing the most common metrics that include the effort for the techniques. These metrics are based on code coverage and fault count. Furthermore two new metrics are introduced that use the failure intensity as a more reliability-oriented m...

Reduction of energy consumption in built infrastructure, through the installation of energy-efficient technologies, is a major approach to achieving sustainability. In practice, the viability of energy efficiency projects strongly depends on the cost reimbursement and profitability. These projects are subject to failure if the actual cost savings do not reimburse the project cost promptly. In s...

This study is related to an Islamic project financing with a major focus on investigating the role of Islamic finance in financing infrastructural development projects (toll roads, power plants, airports, and plants, as well as natural resource exploitation projects, such as hydroelectric dams, mining projects, oil and gas assets, and paper mills), especially in the context of Pakistan. Infrast...

The adequate measurement of information system project success is a yet unsolved problem. Although researchers agree on the concept’s multi-dimensionality, a generally accepted definition does still not exist. This article presents findings from a confirmatory study with 86 projects to test three alternative approaches to measure information system project success using the project managers’ su...

The financial industry relies greatly on information technology (IT) because of its work with immaterial goods. Nowadays, most information collected by a financial institution is usually stored in a central data warehouse system. This central financial data warehouse (FDWH) is permanently under construction. Requirements from all over the bank have to be met by FDWH projects in an ongoing proce...

Using unique archival data on 81 projects from a major ERP vendor, we study whether transaction characteristics are included in the vendor’s estimation of risk to project profitability. We hypothesize that project size, contract type, strategic importance, and client familiarity are included in the risk estimations. Regression analysis suggests that, surprisingly, vendors do not include all tra...

In global software development (GSD) projects, distributed teams collaborate to deliver high-quality software. Project managers need to control these development projects, which increasingly adopt agile practices. However, in a distributed project a major challenge is to keep all team members aware of recent changes of requirements and project status without providing too little or too much inf...