In an increasingly dynamic business environment characterized by fast cycle times, shifting markets and unstable technology, a business organization’s survival hinges on its ability to align IT capabilities with business goals. To facilitate the successful introduction of new IT applications, issues of project risk must be addressed, and the expectations of multiple stakeholders must be managed...

-Software engineering is one of the most recent additions in various disciplines of system engineering. It has emerged as a key obedience of system engineering in a quick succession of time. Various Software Engineering approaches are followed in order to produce comprehensive software solutions of affordable cost with reasonable delivery timeframe with less uncertainty. All these objectives ar...

Software tools for project management are extremely complex desktop applications. Recently, we observe a shift from traditional project management where one project manager is responsible for creating the project plan and supervising its execution, towards a more agile multi-project management that involves project members early in the planning process. This shift demands the introduction of no...

A good project manager needs to demonstrate a range of competencies during the course of an IT project. The eventual success of a project may be at risk if certain competences are either not present or not applied appropriately. Utilising the grounded theory methodology and behavioural event interviews this research seeks to identify the key competencies of a project manager when dealing with c...

After a brief presentation of the aspects regarding the planning of a customer relationship management (CRM) project, we emphasize the factors that assure the success of such an approach. In order to obtain the attended results, an organization needs the best selection of the project manager and the most efficient teamwork, which implies employees from the company’s departments and also IT spec...

BEKO-SMS is a knowledge-based skill management system that combines project planning and human resource management. Application and system functions model specific skills and relationships used in a particular project. The definition of skills, skill trees, skill updating and other processes form the basis for the success factors of the SMS. We conclude that efficient project resource planning ...

This report presents the Jalapeno grid computing system. Jalapeno is implemented using the Java programming language and uses peer-to-peer technology provided by the Project JXTA protocols. Project JXTA defines a set of communication protocols allowing any network connected device to communicate in a peer-to-peer manner. The system consists of manager, worker and task submitter hosts. The task ...

In this paper, we describe the usability evaluation experiments of an ontology-based Query manager, which is part of the SEWASIE system (SEmantic Webs and AgentS in Integrated Economies). The usability evaluation is an important step of the User-Centered Design Methodology, followed to develop the entire project that aims at enabling a uniform access to heterogeneous data sources through an int...

From July 2005 to August 2006, a bioinformatics project experienced a substantial transformation by adopting Scrum and some XP practices. The paper reveals project risks, previous challenges faced by the team and results from this one-year exploratory case study. The paper presents a discussion of the lessons learned from the perspective of both the project manager and the onsite agile advisor,...