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Recent research studies indicate a gap in research regarding descriptive and diagnostic analytics across project management knowledge areas. As a result there is mismatch between the information needed by project managers for good decision making and what the current tools provide. This research study purports that a project management intelligence (PMInt) tool which is aimed at assisting project...
Global software development (GSD) is increasingly the norm. As firms expand into new markets overseas, acquire companies in different countries, and recruit talented developers in new locations, projects become distributed by necessity. As projects become increasingly distributed, and include external participants such as outsourcing vendors, conventional top-down management oversight and control...
In the field of software development outsourcing and software project management, researchers use concepts from economic theory to describe organizations, groups, teams, and involved people as rational actors. However, they fail to justify these approaches based on an appropriate understanding of the involved social actors' status. The question, who really can be described as a rational actor, the...
The project manager has been a ubiquitous feature of traditional software development projects. However, agile software development (ASD) methods which emphasize selforganizing teams and rapid response to change have done away with the project manager's title. New job titles such as the scrum master and product owner have been introduced instead. It is unclear as to what extent the "project manager"...
Although the ability to make right decisions is considered a main indicator of organizational project management professionalism, many project, program, and portfolio managers are unwilling to try to improve the quality of their decisions. This ongoing research aims to develop a substantive theory about the decision-making processes considering four elements: cognitive biases, tools and techniques,...
Decision making for software project management encompasses a critical role for effective management. Decisions stem from constraints considered over definition of a project. Decision making of this practice considered with many challenges ranged based on intangible nature of software projects to the deficiency of strategy-model employed. In this paper a conceptual multi-method simulation based framework...
Software development outsourcing is a contract-based relationship between client and vendor organizations in which a client contracts out all or part of its software envelopment activities to a vendor, who provides agreed services for remuneration. In this paper we deal with services science through surveying current literature. From the standpoint of services science, this paper explores a process...
Requirement engineering is a crucial activity, which can affect the entire life cycle of software development project. The main objective of requirement engineering is to collect requirements from different viewpoints such as business requirements, customer requirements, user requirements, constraints, security requirements etc. Information is also one of the important requirements of requirement...
One of the challenges in Risk Analysis and Management (RAM) is identifying the relationships between risk factors and risks. The complexity of the method to analyze these relationships, the time to complete the analysis, the robustness and trustworthiness of the method are important features to be considered. In this paper, we propose using Extended Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (E-FCMs) to analyze the relationships...
Agile software development (ASD) techniques are iteration based powerful methodologies to deliver high quality software. To ensure on time high quality software, the impact of factors affecting the development cycle should be evaluated constantly. Quick and precise factor evaluation results in better risk assessment, on time delivery and optimal use of resources. Such an assessment is easy to carry...
Pakistan's software industry is comparatively young as compared to the global software industry. This aspect makes this young industry flexible to adopt new project management and software development methodologies because the existing methodologies are not mature enough therefore any new change does not impose serious threats and / or risks to existing operational working style. Scrum is a project...
Decision making under uncertainty is a critical problem in the field of software engineering. Predicting the software quality or the cost/ effort requires high level expertise. AI based predictor models, on the other hand, are useful decision making tools that learn from past projects' data. In this study, we have built an effort estimation model for a multinational bank to predict the effort prior...
When assessing risk in IT project, due to the limited knowledge, bias of subjective awareness and the impacts of environmental stress, the assessors often give the incomplete or even missing assessment information. In the case, the conventional assessment method can not effectively evaluate the risk factors in IT projects. This paper presents a method for risk assessment based on evidential theory,...
This paper provides a solution for ERP software selection & elimination. ERP is a way to integrate data and processes of an organization into a centralized system that aims to have a single software solution where the information needed for decision making is shared across different departments. The selection or elimination of technology is a multi-criteria, multi-attribute, decision making problem,...
Project risk evaluation is the basis of project risk management, and it is the sticking point of the successful project implementation. In this paper, a group decision making approach based on multi-granularity linguistic assessment information is used to evaluate the project risk. The linguistic 2-tuple representation model and computing model are taken for dealing with multi-granular linguistic...
The paper establishes a framework for software project risk management and presents a method for risk priority management as a module in the system on the basis of Risk Management Information System. It provides a possible framework for the construction of a concrete database including a possible list of risks and fields of risk description as well as an empirical research on the identification of...
Trustworthy software has attracted increasing concern both in academia and industry. How to effectively evaluate the trustworthiness is becoming a closed question. This paper models the software trustworthiness evaluation (STE) problem as a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem, and proposes both an evaluation framework and a practical approach to evaluate the software trustworthiness based...
Risk assessment is the base of software project risk management. According to risk assessment's objective and correlative literatures analysis, the risk assessment's criterion system is established in the paper. Then fuzzy linguistic multiple attribute decision making method is utilized to assess software project risk. The method estimates risk criteria values using linguistic terms based on triangular...
Rescheduling techniques have been proposed in the areas such as job shop problem in recent years by researchers. But it has not been widely explored in software project environment under uncertainty. This paper proposes a software project scheduling/rescheduling framework based on genetic algorithm. Our previous formulates software project scheduling and rescheduling situation as a multi-objective...
For years, the success of a project is measured using the cost, time and quality, but to restrict the assessment in these dimensions for the evaluation of success of the Project Management has been challenged both by the academic community and by practitioners. Differences emerge from the fact that these criteria are restricted to efficiency, while the results of the project are evaluated in a more...
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