As diverse as software project stakeholders are, so are their project needs and interests. Furthermore, the criteria to measure project success are based on the stakeholder groups’ various needs. It is on the basis of these diverse measurement ...

Information Technology (IT) investments in the public sector are large, and it is essential that they lead to benefits for the organisations themselves and wider society. While there is evidence suggesting a positive connection between the ...

The paper aims to provide insights into when benefits from investments in Information Technology are most likely to be realised, and how benefits management practices and roles should be implemented in order to have a positive effect on the projects' ...

Security has become a crucial factor in the development of software systems. The number of dependencies in software systems is becoming a source of countless bugs and vulnerabilities. In the past, the product line community has proposed several ...

COCOMO II is a method to get effort, time (schedule), and cost for software development. In this study, COCOMO II was used to obtain personnel direct costs of a software development project. Personnel direct costs were one of the three components that ...

Despite their critical role in project success, software project teams (SPTs) remain the most neglected key stakeholder group by software project managers (SPMs) and researchers in the project management field. The needs and interests of SPTs have ...

Software Project Scheduling and Task Assignment are important integral aspects of software project management and contributes to the overall success of software projects. Key objective of Task scheduling/ assignment is to minimize the cost and time of ...

The purpose of this study is to develop a model of owner estimate cost of software development projects. The model consists of three main components, namely, personnel direct costs, nonpersonnel direct costs, and taxes. Personnel direct costs are ...

Media computation provides a context within which computation can more easily be learned, allowing students to be creative while learning fundamental programming building blocks (like sequencing, iteration, selection, and two-dimensional arrays). ...

Earned value method is an important tool to evaluate and control the schedule and cost of the project. It is widely used in engineering construction projects, but rarely used in software projects. Due to the characteristics of the software project, the ...

Many Software Project Managers will typically describe their work as part art, part science, part communication and part major headache. Balancing all of the elements of a complex project is an act that takes time to learn, especially in a fast-paced, ...

Software Engineering (SE) is an important topic to be taught in Computer Science courses. However, teaching of theoretical concepts with no link to their practical applications or no examples in the student's context may discourage learning, justifying ...

The size of a software project is a key measure of predicting software effort at the requirements and analysis phase. Use case points (UCP) is among software size metrics that achieved good reputation because of the increasing popularity of use case ...

Delays often occur in real-world software development projects and may cause significant monetary penalties to software companies. Meanwhile, industry lessons have shown that adding inexperienced employees would cause further delays due to the learning ...

Contracts differ in the extent to which software providers risk financial loss in the case of cost overruns. In this paper, we hypothesise that an increase in the provider's risk of financial loss is related to an increased rate of problematic software ...

As one of the crucial human aspects, individual decision-making behavior may affect the quality of a software project, and it is adaptive to the environment in which an individual is practicing. However, no comprehensive reference framework of the ...

Taking into account trends of innovation in economy and increasing interest in applying creativity techniques in computer science, this paper focuses on relationship between creativity and methodology in software project. First, it extracts useful ...

Search-based software project management is a hot research point in software engineering. Based on the event-based scheduler (EBS) we have proposed in previous work [1], this paper intends to further propose a two-phase particle swarm optimization ...

Although testing often accounts for 50% of the budget of a typical software project, the subject of software testing is often overlooked in computing curriculum. Students often view testing as a boring and unnecessary task, and education is usually ...

The task of managing a software project can be an extremely complex one, drawing on many personal, team, and organizational resources. The quality of a software product is dependent on the process in which the project is completed. Time delays in ...

There are many software projects started daily, some are successful, while others are not. Successful projects get completed, are used by many people, and bring benefits to users. Failed projects do not bring similar benefits. In this work, we are ...