Project governance mechanisms and the performance of software development projects: Moderating role of requirements risk

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saif Ul Haq ◽  
Dongxiao Gu ◽  
Changyong Liang ◽  
Iqra Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Governance Mechanisms ◽  
Project Governance ◽  
Moderating Role

Proposing total quality management as a buffer between global software development challenges and project success

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Danial Hashmi ◽  
Khurram Shahzad ◽  
Muhammad Izhar
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Project Success ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Global Software Development ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

PurposeThis study aims to empirically investigate the relationship between different global software development (GSD) challenges (management, process, social, technical and environmental challenges) and software project success. Further, the study examines the moderating role of total quality management (TQM) between the relationship of GSD challenges and success of software projects.Design/methodology/approachUsing two field studies, the authors collected data form software developers working in globally distributed teams. In study 1 (n = 194), relationship of different dimensions of GSD challenges (management, process, social, technical and environmental challenges) and project success was examined. In study 2 (n = 138), moderating role of TQM was examined on the relationship of GSD challenges and project success.FindingsThe results of study 1 indicate that there is a negative relationship between all dimensions of GSD challenges and project success. Findings of study 2 confirmed that TQM practices moderate the negative relationship between GSD challenges and project success.Practical implicationsThe findings of the study provide guidelines to the project managers of software industry to mitigate GSD challenges using TQM practices.Originality/valueStudy adds in the literature of TQM, GSD challenges and project success by (1) empirically investigating the relationship between different GSD challenges and software project success and (2) by examining the moderating role of TQM practices on relationship of GSD challenges and project success in global software development industry.

scholarly journals Computing and the Crisis: The Significant Role of New Information Technologies in the Current Socio-economic Meltdown

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hakken
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Good Reason ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Financial Instruments ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
New Information

There is good reason to be concerned about the long-term implications of the current crisis for the reproduction of contemporary social formations. Thus there is an urgent need to understand it character, especially its distinctive features. This article identifies profound ambiguities in valuing assets as new and key economic features of this crisis, ambiguities traceable to the dominant, “computationalist” computing used to develop new financial instruments. After some preliminaries, the article identifies four specific ways in which computerization of finance is generative of crisis. It then demonstrates how computationalist computing is linked to other efforts to extend commodification based on the ideology of so-called “intellectual property” (IP). Several other accounts for the crisis are considered and then demonstrated to have less explanatory value. After considering how some commons-oriented (e.g., Free/Libre and/or Opening Source Software development projects) forms of computing also undermine the IP project, the article concludes with a brief discussion of what research on Socially Robust and Enduring Computing might contribute to fostering alternative, non-crisis generative ways to compute.  

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