Advances have been made in the development of software processimprovement (SPI) standards and models, i.e, Capability Maturity Model(CMM), more recently CMMI, and ISO's SPICE. However, these advanceshave not been matched by equal advances in the adoption of these standardsand models in software...

Electronic markets are intrinsically social environments. Virtual marketplaces, populated by avatars and objectsrepresenting market players (both people and software agents), enable the observation and measurement ofbehaviours that is difficult (if not impossible) to perform in physical market...

An overview of the work of a research project is useful because it can provide thereader with a clear introduction to that project. This paper provides such an overviewfor the work we have conducted as part of the Practitioners, Processes and Products(PPP) project.Process assessment and...

Software development is considered to be adynamic process where demands for changes seem to beinevitable. Modifications to software are prompted by allkinds of changes including changes to the requirements.This type of changes gives rise to an intrinsic volatility,which has several impacts on...

Commercial Web developers typically make extensive use of prototypes early in the development life cycle. Ratherthan supporting requirements validation or elicitation, one of the key objectives of this utilisation of prototypes isto support clients in understanding how the system under...

Investigating the factors that drive requirementschange is an important prerequisite for understandingthe nature of requirements volatility. This increasedunderstanding will improve the process ofrequirements change management.This paper mainly focuses on change analysis toidentify and...

Change impact analysis (CIA) methods have been developed to identify the consequences of making changes to system artifacts and to support decision making with regards to that change. There is a growing body of research on CIA methods that specifically addresses changes and their impacts at a...