Software Process Improvement is one of the main software development challenges. Unfortunately, process descriptions generally do not correspond to the processes actually performed during software development projects. They just represent high-level plans and do not contain the information necessary in a software project. This lack of alignment between the process and project is caused by proce...

In this paper we present a simulation based approach to predict the expected probability distribution that describes the size of a software project in a given period in the future. Since the simulation strongly depends on historical information, we propose the collection of such data from version control systems, which are well-known and widely used in the industry. We discuss the information c...

So far, many software developments tend to rather depend on experience-based know-how. In the formal demonstration, we introduce our ongoing project for developing a tool named Empirical Project Monitor as a partial implementation of the empirical software engineering platform. This project aims at establishing the methodology for software development based on the scientific method in order to ...

1 Patricia Mandl-Striegnitz, Dept. of SE., University of Stuttgart, Breitwiesenstr. 20-22, 70565 Stuttgart, Germany, [email protected] Abstract  A crucial factor for the success or failure of software development projects is the qualification of project managers. But how can future project managers be prepared for their role? To successfully manage a software project, theoret...

Knowledge and understanding of success and failure factors, as well as how to measure them and the interactions between these factors have great importance for project management effectiveness. Project success and failure is a question of perception and the criteria could vary from project to project A project that has been perceived to be a failure by one stakeholder may be perceived as a succ...

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Even after a wide variety of tools, technologies, and management methods are poured into information systems (IS) development, IS projects are still plagued by unmet user’s requirements, schedules, and budgets. Many researchers and practitioners have argued inadequate software development process planning is a critical factor accounting for this high IS project failure rates. The Capability Mat...

Over the last 20 years, the open-source community has provided more and more software on which the world’s highperformance computing systems depend for performance and productivity. The community has invested millions of dollars and years of effort to build key components. However, although the investments in these separate software elements have been tremendously valuable, a great deal of prod...

Project Management process plays a significant role in effective development of software projects. Key challenges in the project management process are the estimation of time, cost, defect count, and subsequently selection of apt developers. Therefore precise estimation of above stated factors decides the success level of a project. This paper provides an empirical study of several projects dev...