The discipline of project management has been available for almost 40 years. This paper examines several factors that make the management of software development projects more dif®cult than the management of many other kinds of projects. These factors negatively impact the software project managers' success in estimation and scheduling, planning, responding to schedule and budget pressures, mon...

58 The challenges and realities in applying effective software risk management processes are difficult, in particular integrating the 59 risk management processes into software development organizations. However, the benefits of implementing effective risk manage60 ment tools and techniques in software development project are equally great. Current perceptions and emerging trends of various 61 ...

Software industries unlike other industries have been lacking the productivity gains through quality improvement programs, suggesting failures in the application of software engineering standards to software development. This paper increases the understanding of how quality management systems (QMS) which are based on software engineering standards are incorporated into systems development metho...

Software Configuration Management (SCM) is the discipline of controlling the evolution of a software product. Product Data Management (PDM) is the disciple of designing and controlling the evolution of a product design. For a long time, these two domains have been disconnected, but they probably share common concepts and techniques. Furthermore, any large product development includes a substant...

Software project development has always been associated with high failure rate. The failure of a software project depends on rooted risks. These risks don't come into face at early stages of requirement gathering and analysis which carried on in the further phases of development greatly affects the cost of a software project. Researchers consider requirements uncertainty and risk as a prob...

Software is everywhere around us and thus the importance of the software development industry has strongly increased. Quality is recognized as the key to business success in software development as well. Due to the main difference between a software product and any other material product, the main principles of quality management in software development are special. In the paper, the software a...

The field of software quality management has been subject to extensive studies. This is due to the fact that software is getting more and more important in every situation of life. However, in consequence of disparate requisites according to the respective development setting, as well as product attributes and – finally – diverging understandings of quality itself, there is no such thing as a s...

The issue of strategic software development management generally assumes the organization is in the software industry. However, there are cases of non-software vendors who have successfully built from within and even disseminated the results within their industry. These organizations must also grapple with strategic and tactical software management issues. Case studies and comparisons of such o...

Managing knowledge in software development is very important, since software development is a human and knowledge intensive activity. The main asset of a software organization consists of its intellectual capital. In this paper we propose KnowBench, a novel knowledge management system that integrates into the daily software development process and can be used for capturing knowledge and experie...