Reliable effort and cost estimation remains to be a challenging issue even for mature software organizations. Although, these organizations collect historical data to base their future estimates, changes in circumstances (such as application type, development platform, etc.) prevent their successful utilization. As a result, companies often suffer from underestimated and unrealistic schedules. ...

Despite the increasing efforts of organizations to improve the development processes of their software projects, there remain few empirical and generalizable findings when it comes to key questions regarding software process improvement initiatives. Rarely there was any empirical examination in an integrative model on how process improvement efforts affect key organizational concerns such as so...

Tracking the Software during development provide a way to measure the gap between estimation of project and actual implementation of the project. It helps the tem member to modify its work practices to complete the pending task in the right direction. This Research Paper focuses on different Scrum metrics, which provide a quantitative basis for tracking the progress of the project and individua...

This paper addresses software process improvement. In particular it reports on action research undertaken to understand the problems with software processes of a large Danish company. It is argued that in order to understand what the specific problems are we may, on the one hand, rely on process models like CMM or Bootstrap. On the other hand, we may also see the specific and unique features of...

In this paper we develop a learning-mediated model of offshore software project productivity and quality to examine whether widely adopted structured software processes are effective in mitigating the negative effects of work dispersion in offshore software development. We explicate how the key process areas of the capability maturity model (CMM) can be utilized as a platform to launch learning...

Preparing and qualifying the Computer Science students to meet the software industry needs is a growing challenge for academia. This task is about maturing the future professional with good practices of software development, increasingly demanded by software industry. This work aims to present the process of implementing a software residency program for undergraduate Computer Science course, wh...

The management of IT carve-out projects is very challenging due to the strict time frame, the severe contractual penalties, the huge number of stakeholders and the various as well as unique IT tasks that have to be conducted. Up to now, there is no instrument for evaluating the readiness of the IT for a carve-out and also not for managing such a project. In order to address this, we develop a m...

Offshore outsourcing software development is increasingly used by software industry. An outsourced software development project is geographically distributed software development. Compared with traditional ways of software development (in-house), the geographically distributed software development is more risky making the actual attainment of the expected results uncertain. Although the failure...