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A complicated and time-consuming phase in the development of Maturity/Capability Models (MCMs) is the identification of existing relevant source models as, currently, information on existing MCMs is provided in very different forms and levels of detail ...

A variety of reference models (RMs) such as CMMI, COBIT or ITIL support IT organizations to improve their processes. As these RMs cover different domains and also share some similarities, organizations may benefit from the adoption of multiple RMs. ...

The amount of software in modern cars is significant and is growing with releases of new cars. The evolutionary development of software systems means new releases require changes to the existing systems. The changes might have a positive and negative ...

In effort estimation model construction, it seems effective to window training project data so that recently finished projects are only used. The past study examined this windowing approach with ISBSG R10 Data. However, this approach has not been ...

Software development is considered a collaborative activity, although this collaboration may not be visible or understood among work group members or project managers. This research work proposes the identification and classification of characteristics ...

Interviews are the most widely used elicitation technique in Requirements Engineering (RE). Despite its importance, research in interviews is quite limited, in particular from an experimental perspective. We have performed a series of experiments ...

Scripts for automated system tests often contain technical knowledge about the user interface (UI). This makes test scripts brittle and hard to maintain which leads to high maintenance costs. As a consequence, automation of system tests is often ...

Open Source Software (OSS) communities do not often invest in marketing strategies to promote their products in a competitive way. The web pages of OSS products are the main communication channel with potential users and they should act as a product's ...

Cloud Computing (Clouds) is a new trend in IT, not yet widely adopted by large-scale organisations extensive IT infrastructure and complex IT processes as they find it difficult to adopt Clouds. There are technical and socio-technical challenges that ...

In the last years the use of Search-Based techniques has been suggested to estimate software development effort. These techniques are meta-heuristics able to find optimal or near optimal solutions to problems characterized by large space. In the context ...

This paper presents a research proposal on how and why we are investigating the benefits of the Unified Modelling Language (UML) in software maintenance tasks. The principal objective is to present the main research questions, along with an explanation ...

Software empowers micro-businesses to be more competitive - be it accounting software, point-of-sales software, e-commerce software, and the like. Before having such software, micro-businesses must express their requirements properly to the software ...

'Agile' is become one of most known and used ICT buzzwords of last 10 years. More recently a plenty of 'Agile Maturity Models' were proposed, trying to evaluate the maturity (and capability) levels of an organization using such approach. The aim of this ...

Today software industry lives in a very competitive environment and firms need to improve constantly. One way to achieve this goal can be the introduction of innovative ideas into the products, processes or services of the firms, allowing thus to ...

Agile Project Management (APM) is widely used in different software projects from different application domains. APM includes a series of commonly used project management approaches with the intent to handle better uncertainty and unpredictability, ...

Agile literature suggests that the active and continuous participation and involvement of the clients throughout the project is key to building the right product and raise users' satisfaction. However, relatively little research has been made on ...

Some notes to implement and manage correctly a plurality of projects regarding Public Works, as well as to design/develop an information tool supporting all linked activities are presented in this paper. Starting from a reference context represented by ...

In this paper we describe the project management structures, challenges and crucial success factors of the GAL project, an interdisciplinary research project in Lower Saxony/Germany. After a brief introduction on the research topics, the organizational ...

Packaged software applications are often used to implement project management information systems. These applications should be configured according to requirements of the particular project. This paper describes the project management information ...

The world of software analysis, design and development has dramatically changed, owing to the availability of novel patterns and architectures derived from the Internet experience. In particular, the Jazz framework joined to the Eclipse Integrated ...

International crisis feedbacks weakened Italian agro-food production. Nevertheless, the industry reported excellent results with respect to the total industry and Campania attests as the first national agro-food production centre (ANICAV Report, [1]) In ...

In this paper, we describe how an ICT Virtual Enterprise has been organized at industrial level. A Software Factory-based approach, aiming at supporting the project sharing by the virtual enterprise components, has been adopted. We also detail how human ...

The world of decision makers and business in general have always been interested in research on complexity, since the widespread conviction that traditional interpretation schemes and predefined schemes reveal their inadequateness to guarantee survival ...

This document is based on the meaningful experience of the authors who are experienced in International Peacekeeping Missions. Its aim is to help improve the skills related to Project and Knowledge Management disciplines required during the ...

To be effective, organizations have to cope with uncertainty, in particular when they are involved in the realization of projects. In this work we discuss a peculiar aspect of uncertainty arising from contractual relationships that regulate a project ...

The complexity of market pushes organizations and individuals to amplify their knowledge in both directions of generalization and specialization to face market opportunities. However it is very difficult, even for a large organization, to plan the ...

This extended abstract explores the relationship between Project Management and the internationally recognized models/standard for process assessment and improvements CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) and SPICE (ISO/IEC 15504).

It provides ...