Global software development has been a phenomenon of growing interest for almost past decade or so; and its adoption trend continues to gain momentum. Globally distributed work is taken up as an alternative to single-site mainly because of the economic and strategic benefits it offers. Software development at geographically distributed environment is not a straightforward task and entails numer...

Agile Methods (AMs) are a set of development techniques designed to address some problems of modern software development (i.e. projects over budget and over schedule). Such methods do not pretend to be useful in any kind of software project or to be the solution to reduce costs and increase quality of any product. However, in specific contexts and for specific problems, AMs simply helps develop...

Despite documented best practices and specialized tools, managers continue to face major challenges in software development. While managers are traditionally advised to choose between plan-driven and agile principles, software organizations increasingly face situations in which they need to take advantage of both. There is, however, limited actionable advice on how managers can shape the organi...

Software development is a knowledge intensive activity and its success depends on knowledge and creativity of the developers. In the last years the traditional perspective on software development is changing and agile methods have received considerable attention. The purpose of this paper is to provide an understanding of knowledge management and creativity in relation with new software enginee...

Online interpretation and visualization of project data are gaining increasing importance on the long road towards predictable and controllable software project execution. This paper sketches the Sprint I controlling approach for software development projects and gives first evaluation results. The approach is grounded on the usage of context-oriented cluster curves and integrated in the framew...

The majority of software development organizations all over the world are small and medium enterprises. These organizations have realized that it is crucial for their business to improve their processes and working methods but they are lacking the knowledge and resources to do it. Successful implementation of SPI methodologies in small and medium-sized software enterprises (SMEs) is generally n...

This paper explores the operational context of software processes and how it can inform the micro-process level environment. It examines the case of software project performance, describing a novel explanation. Drawing on the management literature, project performance is modeled as the contested outcome of learning as a driver of success and certain barrier conditions as drivers of failure, thr...

Research Objective We introduce the novel concept of applying economic mechanism design to the software development process, and aim to find ways to A task is an atomic unit executed by individuals and teams of actors that are interacting and making several investment decisions. Here we describe a generic view for the software decision making with four major components: adjust the incentives an...

This paper presents a survey of actual conditions of use of standard indicators in a Japanese software development organization. This survey is conducted in order to investigate possible criteria for selecting and customizing standard indicators according to the context of each project. Based on results of the survey, a process tailoring support system that is mainly focusing to quantitative ma...

Task allocation is considered an important activity in software project management. However, the process of allocating tasks in agile software development teams has not received much attention in empirical research. Through a pilot study involving mixed open-ended and closed-ended interviews questions with 11 agile software practitioners working within a software development organization in Ind...