One approach to managing business knowledge is to generalize problems and solutions within the context they appear, to enable reuse. We have applied a pattern framework adopted from software development, in a project for managing business knowledge. The pattern development process has included the evaluation of the suitability of “candidate” patterns. We present criteria for considering and mea...

The investments needed to bring a software project to the market are substantial and can extend over several years. Managing software development requires not only technical expertise, but communication with funders and economists. This paper presents methods to estimate a parameter which captures the effective investment time, lag. The lag parameter is useful in assessing progress towards the ...

In software organizations, usual ways to capture the experience project team members acquire are based on methods such as project postmortem analysis, post-project revisions and others alike. Their main drawback is that the experience capture is done (if ever) after project completion, which leads to the risk of losing it if, as usually occurs, team members are finally not available. This paper...

Software development centered on Commercial Off-theShelf, or COTS, components is becoming exceedingly important. However, building a business case for COTScentric development may be hard, owing to the risks and uncertainties involved. Investment analysis can be a valuable tool to support the business case for a new software project. This position paper discusses an approach based on economic va...

We present ARCADE, a consistency and awareness model for Distributed Software Development. In ARCADE, updates to elements of the software project considered important to a programmer are sent to him promptly. As the importance of an element decreases, the frequency with which the programmer is notified about it also decreases. This way, the system provides a selective, continuous and focused le...

Software development poses enormous cognitive, organizational, and managerial challenges. In this article, we focus on two of the most formidable of these challenges and on the promise of object-oriented (00) technology for addressing them. In particular, we analyze the claims made about 00 design (OOD) and (a) dissemination of domain knowledge and (b) communication and coordination. In order t...

The ultimate aim of software engineering methods and tools is to reduce risks associated with the development of software products. Accepted risk management procedures recognize that software development is inherently risky, however fail to take into account the changing nature of both software products and the organizations undertaking their development. SE research has traditionally focused o...

Through extensive research into the area of quality management practices, such as ISO (International Standard Organization), Six Sigma has been observed within small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Few empirical studies have reported the application of Six Sigma in SMEs, especially in software developing SMEs. The reasons can be attributed to complex issues associated with Six Sigma, as we...

Agile software development or agility is a sound concept of today’s scenario which comprises the methods like scrum, Kanban, pair programming, extreme programming etc...Agile methods work with collaboration, competence, predictive planning and achievement and so that they let a project to be completed in its optimum state i.e. within time and cost and with producing best results. Agile methods ...

Both Agile Software Development (ASD) and Global Software Development (GSD) are 21 century trends in the software industry. Many studies are reported in the literature wherein software companies have applied an agile method or practice GSD. Given that effort estimation plays a remarkable role in software project management, how do companies perform effort estimation when they use agile method i...