Girassol is a web-based software project management tool that has the purpose of controlling organizational processes, projects, and documents. This tool provides project managers with a set of functionalities that allow them to put PMBOK, workflow, and document version control techniques into practice in an automated manner. The automation helps project managers in delivering a software with h...

Bugzilla is an online software bug reporting system. It is widely used by both open-source software projects and commercial software companies and has become a major source to study software evolution, software project management, and software quality control. In some research studies, the number of bug reports has been used as an indicator of software quality. This paper examines this represen...

This paper proposes a multi-objective genetic algorithm for software project team staffing that focuses on optimizing human resource usage based on technical skills and personality traits of software developers. Human factors are recognized as critical aspects affecting the rate of success of software projects, as well as other properties, such as productivity, software quality, performance, an...

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...

Software project failure and cancellation rates increase day by day due to technical failures, quality failures, lack of end client acceptance etc. and also the lack of proper management. Software project failure and cancellation rates increase due to the fact they have not been managed properly. This eventually leads a financial loss to the organization, perhaps the particular organization may...

The project management literature has typically focused on efficiency measures, such as time, cost, and quality, but rarely examined broader measures of success, customer satisfaction loyalty. In this article, we apply a resource-based theory framework examine both ordinary dynamic capabilities the firm their influence repurchase intentions. We also include firm's corporate reputation explore i...

We examine the drivers of project performance and customer satisfaction in outsourced software projects using a proprietary panel dataset. The data cover 822 customer observations related to 182 unique projects executed by an India-based software services vendor. Adopting a multidisciplinary perspective, we investigate how project planning, team stability, and communication effectiveness (antec...

It can be argued that the quality of software management has an effect on the degree of success or failure of a software development program. We have developed a metric for measuring the quality of software management along four dimensions: requirements management, estimation/planning management, people management, and risk management. The quality management metric (QMM) for a software developm...