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Key Success Factors in Software Development Projects

Dubey, Santosh J. - 2013

Software development projects are complex. Coupled with technical factors, anomalies that are environment … in software development projects but studies that ascertain the extent to which technicalities and conventional factors … centralized approach to software development management, process iteration practices, such as Agile, which downplay the formality …

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Nature and Importance of Soft Skills in Software Project Leaders

Agrawal, Narendra M.; Thite, Mohan - 2013

Indian software industry experienced a phenomenal growht throughout 1990s. In spite of worldwide recessionary trends in the software industry, Indian software industry is expected to play a much bigger role in the new millenium for the growht of Indian economy. In the light of the research...

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Innovation and the Challenge of Novelty : The Novelty-Confirmation-Transformation Cycle in Software and Science

Carlile, Paul R.; Lakhani, Karim R. - 2013

Innovation requires sources of novelty, but the challenge is that not all sources lead to innovation, so its value needs to be determined. However, since ways of determining value stem from existing knowledge this often creates barriers to innovation. To understand how people address the...

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Code Reuse in Open Source Software Development : Quantitative Evidence, Drivers, and Impediments

Sojer, Manuel; Henkel, Joachim - 2013

The focus of existing open source software (OSS) research has been on how and why individuals and firms add to the commons of public OSS code - that is, on the “giving” side of this open innovation process. In contrast, research on the corresponding “receiving” side of the innovation...

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Software Development as an Antitrust Remedy : Lessons from the Enforcement of the Microsoft Communications Protocol Licensing Requirement

Page, William H.; Childers, Seldon J. - 2013

ambitious software development projects aimed at testing the adequacy of the documentation. Despite these efforts, as of March …

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Open Source Licensing in Mixed Markets, or Why Open Source Software Does Not Succeed

Gaudeul, Alexia - 2013

The rivalry between developers of open source and proprietary software encourages open source developers to court users and respond to their needs. If the open source developer wants to promote her own open source standard and solutions, she may choose liberal license terms such as those of the...

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Dynamic Optimization of Software Enhancement Effort

Kumar, Subodha; Ji, Yonghua; Yeh, Denny; Sethi, Suresh - 2013

As the competition in the software development business grows fiercer, the features provided in the software become …

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Hybrid Support Systems : A Business Intelligence Approach

Brandas, Claudiu - 2013

The area of the Decision Support System (DSS) was extended, and it is today more than an application based on spreadsheets. In our opinion, DSS is, nowadays, a concept that defines any kind of information technology focused on the support of the decision making process. In this respect the...

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Effect of Software Manager, Programmer and Customer Over Software Quality

Farhad, Ghrehbaghi; Afzali, Mehdi; Bazerghani, Mahdi; … - 2013

Several factors might be affecting the quality of software products. In this study we focus on three significant parameters: software manager, programmer and the customer. Our study demonstrates that the quality of product will improve by increasing the information generated by these three...

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Sociomaterial Bricolage : The Creation of Location-Spanning Work Practices by Global Software Developers

Johri, Aditya - 2013

Context: Studies on global software development have documented severe coordination and communication problems among … the complexity of work undertaken by global teams. However, despite these problems, global software development is on the … rise and firms are adopting global practices across the board, raising the question: What does successful global software …

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