A significant proportion of organizations delivering IT services follows and combines some IT management frameworks. At the organizational level, they often act in accordance with ITIL, the most used IT Service Management (ITSM) framework. At the project management level, a growing part of them are willing to work with agile methods. However, ITIL favours the Waterfall life cycle, such as in PR...

Definition Software Engineering encompasses a process, methods for managing and engineering software and tools. The role of software has undergone significant change over the past half century. From card readers to scanner, from simple equation to artificial intelligence, kilobytes to terabytes, CPU performance from 1 MHz to 6 GHz, 8 bit to 128 bit operating systems. The evolution happened in t...

Die größte Herausforderung im IT-Management ist heute nicht die „richtige Durchführung“ von Projekten, sondern das Erkennen der „richtigen Projekte“. Wann ist ein Reengineering-Projekt notwendig und in welchen Situationen ist ein Konvergenzprojekt zielführend? „Richtige Projekte“ sind Projekte, die dazu führen, dass der Wertbeitrag der IT für die Unternehmung erhöht wird. In diesem Beitrag wird...

In this paper, we consider software development type Information Technology (IT) projects in presenting the redesigned framework and approach for their management. Software development produces intangible products and requirements for software products are difficult to capture as well as they are changing faster than expected. This has made software development type IT projects more complicated...

Ein Business Case macht die Investition in ein Projekt und den erwarteten Nutzen transparent. Obwohl die Herstellung dieser Transparenz eine der wichtigsten Aufgaben des Projektmanagements ist, vernachlässigen einige Vorgehensmodelle wie z.B. das V-Modell XT diesen Aspekt eines Projektes. Nach wie vor scheitern zwei Drittel aller Projekte – eher an Management-Fehlern als an technischen Probleme...

Agile development methods are commonly used to iteratively develop the information systems and they can easily handle ever-changing business requirements. Scrum is one of the most popular agile software development frameworks. The popularity is caused by the simplified process framework and its focus on teamwork. The objective of Scrum is to deliver working software and demonstrate it to the cu...