We study optimal policies for design reuse in a software project using a control theoretic approach. A project needs to be developed in minimum time by optimally choosing the proportion of effort allocated towards design activities. We first consider a local case, where the benefits of design...

Software modernization for business applications is often driven by the need for supporting additional frontend channels such as web or mobile. At the same time, business logic encapsulated by services and the underlying persistence implementation should be reused. In contrast to writing new...

In this paper, we attempt to study the gender pay gap in the case of Indian software developers. This is the only study in our knowledge that analyses gender pay gap in this important and dynamic sector in India. Previous studies on wage gap suffer from the problem of bias due to differences in...

Chapter 1 - Introduction -- Chapter 2 - Leadership -- Chapter 3 - Management- Chapter 4 - Hiring -- Chapter 5 - Quality -- Chapter 6 - Feedback -- Chapter 7 - Managing expectations -- Chapter 8 - Bureaucracy -- Chapter 9: Ethics -- Chapter 10 - Remote Work -- Afterword.

Part I: Organizational Politics -- 1 Fundamental Concepts -- 2 Perspectives on Power -- 3 Latent Conflict -- 4 Open Conflict -- Part II: Software Processes -- 5 Process Design -- 6 Bureaucratic Control -- 7 Cultural Control -- Part III: Political Action -- 8 Politics at Work -- 9 Political...