There are several software process models and methodologies such as waterfall, spiral and agile. Even so, the rate of successful software development projects is low. Since software is the major output of software processes, increasing software process management quality should increase the project’s chances of success. Organizations have invested to adapt software processes to their environmen...

Early experiences with offshore software development (OSD) have not been consistently positive. There have been abundant media reports of various companies whose offshore projects were not able to live up to expectations. It would appear that this can be traced back to insufficient project management by the offshore project partners. In this context, some research has been carried out on the cr...

This paper presents the Software Project Governance Framework (SPGF) for characterizing management of software projects, based on mechanisms used for communication and collaboration, the organizational structure of projects, and testing and quality assurance procedures. The framework was developed and validated from interviews and surveys with leaders of more than 70 commercial and communitybas...

Practically all inspection and review methods focus on projects for developing new software that involve numerous people, but software companies also have small projects on which only a few people are working, e.g. maintenance-oriented changes to existing software systems. Unfortunately, these small projects do not necessarily have the power to implement inspections efficiently. This paper rais...

Small-scale pilot projects have demonstrated that integrated population, health and environment approaches can address the needs and rights of vulnerable communities. However, these and other types of health and development projects have rarely gone on to influence larger policy and programme development. ExpandNet, a network of health professionals working on scaling up, argues this is because...

One of the most important aspects of software project management is the estimation of cost and time required for running information system. Therefore, software managers try to carry estimation based on behavior, properties, and project restrictions. Software cost estimation refers to the process of development requirement prediction of software system. Various kinds of effort estimation patter...

Software inspection is advertised as the most effective way to find bugs in software documents. Unfortunately, practically all inspection/review methods focus on projects that are developing new software and involve more than two employees. Software companies also have small projects in which one or two employees are working on job lasting less than one man-month, e.g. maintenance-oriented chan...

This paper presents quantitative results on the return on investment of systems engineering (SE-ROI) from an analysis of the 161 software projects in the COCOMO II database. The analysis shows that, after normalizing for the effects of other cost drivers, the cost difference between projects doing a minimal job of software systems engineering—as measured by the thoroughness of its architecture ...

Software bots are used to streamline tasks in Open Source (OSS) projects' pull requests, saving development cost, time, and effort. However, their presence can be disruptive the community. We identified several challenges caused by request interactions interviewing 21 practitioners, including project maintainers, contributors, bot developers. In particular, our findings indicate noise as a recu...

Agile software development plays a very significant role in software projects. Agile software project is a refined approach to design and direct project processes. An agile project is finished in short sections called iterations. This paper introduces a survey of machine learning approaches for predicting failure of agile software projects. It reviews the uses of machine learning techniques suc...