Context: The analysis and selection of requirements are important parts of any release planning process. Previous studies on release planning have focused on plan-driven optimization models. Unfortunately, solving the release planning problem mechanistically is difficult in an agile development context. Objective: We describe how a release planning method was employed in two case projects in F-...

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to determine an appropriate sequence to develop the components of a project management plan. Some newcomers to project management become overwhelmed due to the complex relations within these components. Network theory is a widely used tool in fields with complex relations within entities, but it has not yet been applied to configure a project managemen...

Project planning and control are the essentials of project management. The first steps of the project planning require some knowledge of the concept of the product that the project is expected to deliver. The initial project plan, scope of work, Work Breakdown Structure, and allocation of resources rely on understanding of at least the top-level product functionality, architecture, and concept ...

The Chinese National Quality Course Plan is a large-scale project by the Ministry of Education, which has led to the production of more than 12 000 courses from some 700 universities since 2003. This paper describes in detail the purpose of the project and how it is organized at all levels, including how individual courses get selected at university level, provincial level and national level. T...

This paper introduces a two-stage selection rule to compare several experimental treatments with a control when the variances are common and unknown. The selection rule integrates the indifference zone approach and the subset selection approach in multipledecision theory. Twomutually exclusive subsets of the parameter space are defined, one is called the preference zone (PZ) and the other, the ...

This case describes the implementation and subsequent failure of an innovative system installed in the bars of Alvalade XXI, the recently built football stadium in Lisbon, Portugal. Casa XXI, the company running the bars, had entrusted the project to an IT supplier who had limited experience with large systems. During the inauguration, the system failed spectacularly creating a chaotic situatio...

In this paper I plan to explore the relationship between critical approaches to literacy and the selection of EAP reading texts, taking Australia’s colonial and post-colonial society as an example of a theme around which discussion of text selection will revolve. Drawing, for example, on the writings of Benesch (1993, 1996) and Pennycook (1989, 1994, 1997), I suggest that by reconceptualising t...