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Software project planning is becoming more complicated and important as the size of software project grows. Many approaches have been proposed to help project managers by providing optimal staffing and scheduling in terms of minimizing the salary cost or duration. Unfortunately, the software quality, another critical factor in software project planning, is largely overlooked in previous work. I...

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...

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Ever since Norwich-born John Taylor concluded that a mining concern should be managed and developed in a rational fashion with an eye on the long term,1 mine management has been transformed. This process started, roughly, in the latter part of the nineteenth century, and has progressed steadily. Until that time, the prevailing attitude among shareholders was to grab the maximum annual profit wi...