Project management tools are mandatory to properly manage a software project. The teaching of these tools is carried out in superior computer courses, but often the instructional strategies are used in an ad-hoc manner. This study aims to analyze the literature about teaching of the usage of project management tools and to identify the instructional strategies and the utilized tools. We conduct...

The purpose of this research is to contribute to a better understanding of information systems (IS) project management practice, by investigating the ISO 21500:2012/PMBoK 5 processes implemented by project managers in this kind of projects. Responses to an international web-based survey, representing 472 projects in total, showed that processes from knowledge areas as, for instance, scope manag...

A project manager is expected to have a broad knowledge of his project when making decisions such as work activity formulation, resource allocation, staffing and risk confrontation. Because of the variegated nature of project decisionmaking, the knowledge required must span numerous issues. Thus a primary concern when training novice project managers is for them to learn how to focus knowledge ...

Project management skills and professional certification are quickly developing into required core practice (Hammond et al., 2006). Peter Shears, CEO of the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM), stated at a April, 2006, conference, that there was increased demand for skilled project managers within all organizations across all industry sectors (Hammond et al., 2006). AIPM is an Aus...

Increasing litigation in the software industry is a growing concern for software engineers. In some cases it can be a serious threat to the software commercial and financial success. Looking at current software best practice frameworks and international standards we have not found any guidance on legal assurance for software engineers. Project Management standards such as the Project Management...

The research undertaken within a Greek IT organisation specialising in service provisioning to the Greek banking sector discusses the various aspects of a number of identified environment factors within five distinct IT projects which affect the requirements analysis phase. Project Management (PMBOK ® Guide 4 th ed.), IT Service Management (ITIL ® v3) and Business Analysis (BABOK ® Guide 2.0) f...

This work describes a new web system to aid project management that was created to correct the principal deficiencies identified in systems having a common purpose which are at present available, as well as to follow the guidelines that are proposed in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK) and the quality characteristics described in the ISO/IEC 9126 norm. As from the adopted methodo...

technology development projects, unlike many other kinds of projects don’t have pre-defined goals or clear implementation methods at the beginning of the project. among other uncertainties that any project could have, technology development projects have a high degree of uncertainty in the definition of project. for this reason, conventional project management methods such as those provided in ...