due to the particular importance of projects in human life and in organizations, proper project management has been always regarded highly by researchers and practitioners. recent advances in technology and fundamental changes in most scientific areas have affected projects and made their nature and environmental circumstances much more complex than in the past. fortunately, in recent years, ma...

A software project has “Hero Developers” when 80% of contributions are delivered by 20% of the developers. Are such heroes a good idea? Are too many heroes bad for software quality? Is it better to have more/less heroes for different kinds of projects? To answer these questions, we studied 661 open source projects from Public open source software (OSS) Github and 171 projects from an Enterprise...

DEC TP WORKcenter is Digital's object-based production system development environment for Application Control and Management System TP applications. Goals for the DEC TP WORKcenter project were to meet customers' requirements, to provide superior product quality, and to maintain schedule predictability. Modern software process techniques helped to achieve an appropriate balance in resolving the...

Development of science and technology and the growing trend of globalization has pushed the urban communities toward competition on absorbing foreign capitals and construction of macro-scale projects. This competition has affected not only developed countries but also developing countries such as Iran- since it is expected that each urban development will finally result in an increase in the qu...

The success and failure of software projects are based on performance indicators such as: compliance to the customer first requirements, customer satisfaction, software quality, budget overrun, schedule compliance and so on. Certainly, project management approaches and best practices known in the field of software engineering or others have been used in software maintenance (SM) management to b...

Within software development, wikis are currently mainly used for brainstorming and documentation purposes or error management and project coordination. This article describes four advanced application scenarios for wiki support in software development processes: Requirements Engineering, Traceability and Rationale Management, Architectural Knowledge Sharing, and Lessons Learned Management in a ...

Modeling is an essential part in software development projects. This shifts the focus of software development from writing code to building models. Consequently Object Management Group (OMG) introduced Model Driven Architecture (MDA). MDA is the open approach to control both business and technology changes. MDA is created to help UML designers to cover all specification of the software system w...