Digital Library initiatives are gaining momentum and many open source digital library software emerged. These developments necessitate universal standard for digital library software. Conforming the software to universal standard means compromising local requirements. No matter how general the...

This paper discusses how R Python SPSS and SAS can be used in research and the benefit that it would have to company’s futures. By using stable forecasting, investors can predict the future bank failures. By using these software packages, organizations can govern the life cycles of their...

This paper investigates whether investments in lean agile software development training increase software development productivity and produce commensurate improvements in financial performance of the software development firm. Two experiments involving software development teams were conducted...

Despite the popularity of platforms as a source of innovation and the growing market presence of Software as Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) continues to face adoption challenges among software firms. Surprisingly, although this segment of cloud computing technology was first...

The Software Companies of Bangladesh are using different types of agile models for software development. Although theoretically these models are worthy for small and medium projects, in practical case they are not so effective. In doing so, this paper tries to find out why do the agile models...

Although initially designed for co-located teams, agile methodologies promise mitigation to the challenges present in distributed software development with their demand for frequent communication. We examine the application of agile practices in software engineering teams with low geographical...

Agile development method has attracted widespread corporate and academic attention as the limitations of traditional software development method become apparent. Similarly focusing on inductive knowledge creation, grounded theory method has achieved seminal status in social science. But there is...

Predicting the time to build software is a very complex task for software engineering managers. There are complex factors that can directly interfere with the productivity of the development team. Factors directly related to the complexity of the system to be developed drastically change the...

This study investigates the effect of partner alignment on the choice of using equity versus non-equity alliance governance mode in information technology (IT) software alliances. Using 485 IT software alliances established in six developed Asia Pacific countries in the period 1998 to 2004, this...

This paper investigates whether investments in lean agile software development via training, specifically retraining and coaching, increase software development productivity and produce commensurate improvements in financial performance of the software development firm. Two experiments involving...