Offshore project success is very much important to both customer and the vendor. Based on very less success rate of overall software projects globally, critical success factors (CSFs) for offshore software projects is gaining much importance. In the current study based on literature review, a...

This paper gives the popular definitions of team, essential characteristics of teams and team development stages. It discusses the previous empirical studies undertaken to investigate the software development team performance. The factors affecting the software development team performance have...

This paper gives an exhaustive literature review of the techniques and models available to measure the productivity of software development teams. Definition of productivity, measuring individual programmer's productivity, and measuring software development team productivity are discussed. Based...

This document is a descriptive study that aims to discover and analyze the elements that characterize the leadership oriented to value creation and development of innovation in organizations. The methodology is based on the application of Short Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ 5X) of...

We study the problem of optimally allocating effort between software construction and debugging. As construction proceeds, new errors are introduced into the system. The objective is to deliver a system of the highest possible quality (fewest number of errors) subject to the constraint that N...

According to Brooks' law for software development projects "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." Building on Brooks' law, we argue that complexity increases the maximum team size in software development projects (Hypothesis 1), and that maximum team size decreases software...

This paper examines the current legal treatment of software innovation. It argues that recent judicial standards for the regulation of software innovation do not adequately protect innovation. It presents an original standard for the regulation of software innovation, one intended to guide...

Spanish Abstract: Para las empresas de desarrollo de software el capital intelectual constituye su activo más valioso, es por ello que la continua formación de sus recursos humanos, resulta imprescindible para lograr el éxito. El presente trabajo describe el modelo de capacitación en la...

The software product development involves different stakeholders such as suppliers, vendors, customers, project development team, senior management and functional managers. The project manager is very much dependent on external stakeholders such as vendors. Vendor selection, contract...

As the quality of open source software increased dramatically over the last decade and important commercial producers, as IBM, Oracle, Novell and also Microsoft are becoming part of the movement, it is important to review and determine the current state in open source software development. This...