In this paper we present and discuss the findings of two case studies on software project management in industrial software development projects and the conclusions drawn from it. These studies were motivated to improve software project management capabilities. First, we describe how these studies were organized and performed. In the main part we present our findings and conclusions showing tha...

This paper is a dedicated research on the way the fields of Software Product Management and Software Project Management collaborate with each other, within software product companies. It analyzes the dependencies between software product and software project and the relationships between product and project managers. The software product is defined based on the market success, customer satisfac...

Managing the development of large-scale software systems is a challenge to all software project managers due to the ever-increasing complexity inherent in the software development life cycle. In this paper, a formalism intended to capture the concurrent and iterative nature of software development, called Software Project Management Net (SPMNet), is proposed to model software development projec...

Evaluating, monitoring, and improving the effectiveness of project management can contribute to successful acquisition of software systems. According to our empirical studies on a range of software development projects, half of the variation in software project success ratings may be explained by project management effectiveness measurements. To improve the quality of the management, to focus o...

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...