Welcome to Software Engineering Risk Management (SERIM). As a professional associated with the development of software, you are well aware that the software development process can truly be a jungle, filled with hazards that lie in wait to sabotage your projects. These hazards (risks) are numerous and often complex. The purpose of this application is to help you find a safer path through this j...

Maintenance represents an important activity in software industry as it is the one that takes the biggest effort among Software Engineering activities apart from its high cost. In this sense, software configuration management helps to overcome some difficulties related to software maintenance such as the lack of product knowledge and negligence in maintenance activities. This paper presents a c...

Companies continuously increased their IT investments over the last decades. Especially the number and complexity of large IT projects is growing. The complexity is intensified by dependencies within one or between different projects and processes and is boosted even further by the growing number of large projects. Another important influence is the rising uncertainty in an increasingly dynamic...

Software and systems engineering is distinct from other forms of engineering as it deals with an intangible product, where the progress in construction is not explicitly visible and team members often rely on the documentation of others to follow and review progress. Furthermore unlike traditional engineering disciplines, there is no single standardized unified process. The role of knowledge ma...

This paper evaluates the benefits of combining Web Semantics Design Method (WSDM) and Agile Framework―Scrum‖ for modeling and Project Management (PM), respectively, of a Web Applications (WA). Furthermore, it is to detail the potential benefits of combining WSDM and Scrum in the development of WA. Moreover, when WSDM is adopted in modeling, the potential benefits have been reflected. What lacks...

T he information economy is formed not of nations but of regions or cities that are networked through people, investment, and telecommunications to further some aspect of global technology development. Shanghai are key hubs in this global economy, where entrepre-neurial plans, government policy, and technology innovation combine to create new businesses, markets, and economic realities. The str...

The Agile Software Development paradigm has become increasingly popular in the last few years, since it claims lower costs, better productivity, better quality and better business satisfaction. Supply chain management (SCM) is a complex software development project. Owing to its scope and uncertain, complex and unstable requirements, it is not possible to develop it with predictable software de...

This paper discusses patterns about the lead roles of a software development team: The Product Manager who is the interface to the customer, the Project Manager who allocates the resources and the Architect who designs the software and leads the developers. A fourth pattern discusses how these roles act as hubs and how they relate to each other. The view is based on the project management trian...

Understanding causal relationships on incident management can help software development organizations in finding the adequate level of resourcing, as well as improving the quality of services they provide to their end-users and/or customers. This paper presents an empirical study conducted upon a sample of incident reports recorded during the operation of several hundred commercial software pro...

Introducing Extreme Programming (XP) to an industrial software development team usually involves technical and professional aspects as well as social and organizational ones. The introducing of a new software development method in general and XP in particular into a software project team that operates in the army emphasizes and extends these issues. In this paper we present a process through wh...