In order to organize and manage a software development project successfully, one must combine specific knowledge, skills, efforts, experience, capabilities, and even intuition. They are all necessary in order to be able answer questions such as: What artifacts to manage and control during software development? How to organize the development team? What are the indicators and measures of the pro...

Project Management (PM) principles are rapidly changing due to business globalization and information technology (IT) advances which support distributed and virtual project teams. Traditional PM focuses on a single project at a single location [11] and is more concerned with project inputs and outputs than with the project work itself [42]. Traditional PM emphasizes scheduling, planning and tra...

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Concurrent engineering or overlapping activities is a business strategy for schedule compression on large development projects. Design parameters and tasks from every aspect of a product’s development process and their interdependencies are overlapped and worked on in parallel. Concurrent engineering suffers from negative effects such as excessive rework and increased social and communication c...

Context: The main part of software engineering methods, tools and technologies has developed around projects as the central organisational form of software development. A project organization depends on clear bounds regarding scope, participants, development effort and lead-time. What happens when these conditions are not given? The article claims that this is the case for software product spec...

Software reliability is an essential characteristic for ensuring the qualities of software products. Predicting potential number bugs from beginning a development project allows practitioners to make appropriate decisions regarding testing activities. In initial phases, applying traditional growth models (SRGMs) with limited past data does not always provide reliable prediction result decision ...