scholarly journals The Effects of Agile Methodologies on Software Project Management in Pakistani Software Companies

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1717-1727
Author(s):  
Javed Iqbal Et.al
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Extreme Programming ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Project Management ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Software Companies ◽  
Agile Methodologies ◽  
Management Factors ◽  
Main Determinants

Agile methodologies are always tends to increase the quality of software and also handling the complex software projects. However, the software companies in Pakistan have recently felt the disparity of producing successful software. In this context, an extensive survey has been conducted in 52 prominent software development companies of Pakistan to identify this remedy and the motivation behind this production discrepancy. It is revealed from the survey that there is a lack of empirical evidence in the relationship of agile methodologies with the effective and progressive management of software project management factors including, schedule, scope, risk, budget, quality and resources. Therefore, the proposed study delivers an extensive statistical comparison to determine the effectiveness of agile methodologies in terms of their effects on the project management factors. The results suggest that in general all agile methodologies play a significant role towards the successful software development in the software company. However, Extreme Programming, Scrum, Kanban and Agile modeling are the main determinants of production disparity among software companies. Furthermore, it is determined that the quality factor has a positive correlation with the rest of the factors. It is also found that the budget factor has significantly correlated with other five factors, while rest of the factors has insignificant correlation. We have also compared agile methodologies in terms of project management factors, which specify that each agile methodology has its own importance and effect with respect to managing different factors of project management.

eXtreme Programming, Agile Methodologies, Software Project Management, Customer Role, Rigorous Testing

2022 ◽  
pp. 163-182
Author(s):  
Kamalendu Pal
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Extreme Programming ◽  
Acceptance Testing ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Project Management ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Agile Methodologies ◽  
Rigorous Testing ◽  
Software Development Methodologies

Agile software development methodologies are attracting attention from academics and practitioners for planning and managing software projects. The eXtreme Programming (XP) challenges conformist wisdom regarding software system development processes and practices as agile methodologies. To work efficiently in the current software development practice, characterized by requirements fuzziness, XP moves away from document-centric operations into people-centric management. In the XP-based software project, the customers play an essential role, having multiple responsibilities such as driving the project, gathering requirements (‘user stories'), and exercising quality control (or acceptance testing). Besides, the customers must liaise with external project stakeholders (e.g., funding authorities, end-users) while maintaining the development team's trust and the wider business. The success of such software project management practices relies on the quality result of each stage of development obtained through rigorous testing. This chapter describes three characteristics of XP project management: customer role, software testing feedback, and learning.

scholarly journals The Impact of Agile Methodologies and Cost Management Success Factors: An Empirical Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2(SI)) ◽  
pp. 0496
Author(s):  
Iqbal Et al.
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Cost Management ◽  
Extreme Programming ◽  
Significant Feature ◽  
Software Cost ◽  
Agile Methodologies ◽  
Management Factors ◽  
The Impact

Software cost management is a significant feature of project management. As such, it needs to be employed in a project or line of work. Software cost management is integral to software development failures, which, in turn, cause software failure. Thus, it is imperative that software development professionals develop their cost management skills to deliver successful software projects. The aim of this study is to examine the impact of cost management success factors with project management factors and three agile methodologies – Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and Kanban methodologies which are used in the Pakistani software industry. To determine the results, the researchers applied quantitative approach through an extensive survey on 52 agile software development companies in Pakistan. Statistical techniques, such as Pearson’s correlation and mean and standard deviation were performed to examine the results. Following this analysis, we found that cost management has a positive effect on other project management factors, which are schedule, scope, risk, resources, and quality. Furthermore, it is determined that, in general, Kanban performed better than both, Scrum and XP in the context of project management factors.

Insights on Cost Estimation Methods and its Uses in Software Project Design

2020 ◽  
pp. 166-169
Author(s):  
Aravindhan K
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Cost Estimation ◽  
Estimation Methods ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Estimation Model ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
Software Companies ◽  
Cost Estimation Model ◽  
The Cost

Cost estimation of software projects is risky task in project management field. It is a process of predicting the cost and effort required to develop a software applications. Several cost estimation models have been proposed over the last thirty to forty years. Many software companies track and analyse the current project by measuring the planed cost and estimate the accuracy. If the estimation is not proper then it leads to the failure of the project. One of the challenging tasks in project management is how to evaluate the different cost estimation and selecting the proper model for the current project. This paper summarizes the different cost estimation model and its techniques. It also provides the proper model selection for the different types of the projects.

Improving Software Project Management by Applying Agile Methodologies: A Case Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 672-685
Author(s):  
Antonio Quiña-Mera ◽  
Lincon Chamorro Andrade ◽  
Javier Montaluisa Yugla ◽  
Doris Chicaiza Angamarca ◽  
Cathy Pamela Guevara-Vega
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Project Management ◽  
Agile Methodologies

scholarly journals Software project management tools in global software development: a systematic mapping study

SpringerPlus ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saad Yasser Chadli ◽  
Ali Idri ◽  
Joaquín Nicolás Ros ◽  
José Luis Fernández-Alemán ◽  
Juan M. Carrillo de Gea ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Global Software Development ◽  
Systematic Mapping Study ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Mapping Study ◽  
Software Project Management ◽  
Systematic Mapping ◽  
Management Tools

scholarly journals Business Process Reengineering: A Scope of Automation in Software Project Management using Artificial Intelligence

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 3589-3594
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Analytical Study ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Project Management ◽  
Development Organization ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Management Procedures

This research paper aims an analytical study on the software development organization insight into trending automation technologies and their implementation Software Engineering Management (SEM) processes. Software Project Management (SPM) is a scientific art for planning, controlling execution and monitoring. SPM approaches are more focusing towards the essential requirement for the success of software project development. It has been very challenging to manage software development using existing project management procedures driven by software development organizations and this is one of the areas of problem statement for this research. This paper discusses an analytical study for the requirements and consideration of BPR in SPM, explores to spot and emphasizes the important success factors for the execution of a BPR using benefits of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in software development organization. BPR is organizational mechanism that improves ability to respond to challenges of qualitative result by change and improvement in software engineering processes, productivity, product quality and competitive advantages. AI will be the best approach and scope of automation SEM processes for software development organizations. This paper also represents a conceptual view of software engineering model shift for improvements in capability of project managers to handle agile thinking and problem solving for betterment of SPM using Artificial Intelligence.

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