scholarly journals Core Factors for Software Projects Success

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ibraigheeth ◽  
Syed Abdullah Fadzli
Keyword(s):  
Success Rate ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Project Success ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Quality Cost ◽  
Project Failure ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Failure Factors

The successful software project can be defined as the project that meets the planned quality, cost, schedule, and effort. It has been suggested that there are many reasons which might lead to software project success.  Several success and failure factors for particular projects were discussed in the literature. This paper aims to identify the most common success factors through reviewing a set of software project reports and case studies. In order to fully understand reasons behind the project success, the reasons behind project failure and the definition of failure itself are discussed. Furthermore, case studies of successful and failed software projects are described. This paper also investigates techniques that have been developed to increase software project success rate and decrease probable failures.

Identification and Quantitative Analysis of Project Success Factors for Large Scale Projects

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Basit Shahzad ◽  
Abass Md Said
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Project Success ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Open Research ◽  
Timely Completion

Software projects require a right mix of the software resources and the expertise to increase the chances of timely completion. The interface for the resource allocation to the software projects is provided by the project factors. The identification of the comprehensive project factors for the diversified nature of projects in itself is an open research area. This paper is based on a quantitative study that helps in identifying the prominent software project factors for large scale projects. The paper then, as a result provides a list of project success factors and provides the statistical evidence to support the result of the survey.

Software Project Managers under the Team Software Process

2012 ◽  
pp. 115-126
Author(s):  
Marcos Ruano-Mayoral ◽  
Ricardo Colomo-Palacios ◽  
Ángel García-Crespo ◽  
Juan Miguel Gómez-Berbís
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Software Process ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Project Manager ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Software Development Project ◽  
Team Software Process ◽  
Definition Of

Despite the clear relevance of the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) market in world economics and the evident lack of success of software projects, organizations devote little effort to the development and maturity of the software project manager profession. This work analyzes the figure of project manager from the perspective of the Team Software Process (TSP), and it considers the required skills, attitudes and knowledge for a software development project. The basis for the study is the analysis of relevant references from the literature for their subsequent categorization into different competency concepts. The results of the analysis are compared with the contributions which the Guide to the SWEBOK® and the PMBOK® Guide models provide of the profiles of the project manager. The results indicate that the literature relating to the Team Software Process is focused on the definitions of skills and attitudes, and to a lesser extent on knowledge components. The lack of the definition of the components which comprise competency constitutes a challenge for software development organizations that use TSP, whose project managers should confront the task with full capacities, and without the help of established and recognized competencies. The current work attempts to establish the competencies for project managers identified in the literature, in the environment of the use of TSP for software development, using a study based on content analysis.

The Impact of Project Initiators on Open Source Software Project Success

2021 ◽  
pp. 221-238
Author(s):  
Ling Wang ◽  
Jinxiao Wang
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Project Success ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Collective Behaviors ◽  
Collective Wisdom ◽  
Open Source Software Project ◽  
Development Costs ◽  
Collaborative Innovation

This paper focuses on studying the role of open source software project initiator in affecting the OSS project success from the perspective of individual and collective behaviors. The authors collected the data from an emerging OSS hosting platform Gitee in China. This research indicates that the success mode for open source software projects in China relies a lot on the project initiators. Project initiators not only contribute codes to aid the project directly, but also use their social capital to facilitate the project success. But no full play has been given to social network's effect on mass production and collaborative innovation. The authors suggest collaborative innovation which could lead to coherence of global collective wisdom, reduced development costs, and expanded source of innovation should be the further direction for the OSS project in emerging platforms.

scholarly journals Insights into the Prevalence of Software Project Defects

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Javier Alfonso-Cendón ◽  
Manuel Castejón Limas ◽  
Joaquín B. Ordieres Meré ◽  
Juan Pavón
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Clustering Algorithm ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Likelihood Ratio Statistic ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Defects ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Development Lifecycle ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Effort Distribution

This paper analyses the effect of the effort distribution along the software development lifecycle on the prevalence of software defects. This analysis is based on data that was collected by the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group (ISBSG) on the development of 4,106 software projects. Data mining techniques have been applied to gain a better understanding of the behaviour of the project activities and to identify a link between the effort distribution and the prevalence of software defects. This analysis has been complemented with the use of a hierarchical clustering algorithm with a dissimilarity based on the likelihood ratio statistic, for exploratory purposes. As a result, different behaviours have been identified for this collection of software development projects, allowing for the definition of risk control strategies to diminish the number and impact of the software defects. It is expected that the use of similar estimations might greatly improve the awareness of project managers on the risks at hand.

ERP Project Success Perception by the Adopters

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Przemyslaw Lech
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Project Success ◽  
Time Budget ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Enterprise System ◽  
System Implementation ◽  
Project Failure ◽  
Business Outcome ◽  
Failure Factors

The purpose of this paper is to determine how the context of the deviations from the planned budget and/or schedule affect the success perception of the project in the eyes of the project management and top management of an adopting organization on a basis of three Enterprise System implementation projects, none of which has met the time-budget criterion. The projects are evaluated against the lists of project failure factors commonly cited in the literature. The results of the study show that deviation from the initially planned schedule and/or budget does not affect the success perception, providing that the project was properly managed and its business outcome is achieved.

Knowledge of IT Project Success and Failure Factors

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 56-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walid Al-Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Project Success ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
It Projects ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Software Developers ◽  
The Common ◽  
Development And Management ◽  
Failure Factors

Traditionally, project success/failure is considered only after the project is completed or cancelled. Integrating project success and failure factors knowledge and software engineering activities would result in a situation where project success/failure is considered as part of the development process, leading to more successful software projects. This article aims to identify the common issues responsible for IT projects’ success/failure to develop a deeper understanding of these root causes. Knowledge about success can be used to understand failure and vice versa. Therefore, generic taxonomies of the root causes are developed for that purpose. Knowledge of these taxonomies is integrated into software development and management activities to help software developers and project managers complete projects successfully.

Adaptive and Dynamic Hybrid Model for Software Project Management: A Review on its Clarity and Usage to Improve Project Success

2019 ◽  
Vol 892 ◽  
pp. 38-45
Author(s):  
Marzanah A. Jabar ◽  
Norhayati Mohd. Ali ◽  
Yusmadi Yah Jusoh ◽  
Salfarina Abdullah ◽  
S. Mohanarajah
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Project Success ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Software Developers ◽  
Effective Role ◽  
Software Development Methodologies ◽  
Dynamic Hybrid ◽  
Current Research Interest

Software developers have shown a lot of interest in using agile approaches and methods to manage projects. The Agile Manifesto in 2001 provided a good basis to use this as it formulated its 4 values and 12 principles. Adaptability was a common feature in the Agile Manifesto to make agility happen and there appears a need to combine dynamism to ensure agility takes a more concrete and effective role. Whilst the term adaptability is discussed more often than dynamism by most researchers, the clarity in its meaning needs improvement as the terms are used interchangeably. This paper proposes a useful clarity on its differences and how it should be used. In addition, this approach would also facilitate the current research interest in mixing and combining software development methodologies to create hybrid versions as pure methods (traditional and agile) have not worked well in most software projects.

scholarly journals A Review of Critical Success Factors for Offshore Software Development Projects

Organizacija ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 282-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goparaju Purna Sudhakar
Keyword(s):  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Project Success ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Efficient Communication ◽  
Contract Type

AbstractOffshore project success is very much important to both customer and the vendor. Based on very less success rate of overall software projects globally, critical success factors (CSFs) for offshore software projects is gaining much importance. In the current study based on literature review, a total of 75 success factors for offshore software projects are identified. Further based on their appearance in literature 20 critical success factors from 10 CSF categories are identified. Finally top six most critical success factors for offshore software projects such as trust, efficient communication, cultural understanding, relationship between client and vendor, contract type and efficient knowledge transfer are identified. The CSFs categories are prioritized in the order of importance. The important CSF categories for offshore projects found are organizational factors (both client and vendor), project factors, cultural factors and environmental factors.

scholarly journals Optimize Software Governance with a Predictive Model to Improve the Success Rate of Software Projects, Program and Portfolio

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S11) ◽  
pp. 3934-3937
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Success Rate ◽  
Predictive Model ◽  
It Governance ◽  
Operational Efficiency ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Software Project Management ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
It Organization

Success of Software projects is the main objective of any IT organization. Software Project management is a combination of People, Process and Technology to support the success of software projects. IT Governance ensures operational efficiency though various control mechanisms at a Project, Program and Portfolio level. Currently we have a gap in Governance and compliance process in predicting the success of software projects. This paper is focused on optimizing software governance with a logical predictive model

scholarly journals La gestión ágil de proyectos de software en la formación Académica Universitaria: Una revisión sistemática de la literatura

2020 ◽  
pp. 8-21
Author(s):  
Luz María Hernández-Cruz ◽  
Margarita Castillo-Téllez ◽  
Diana Concepción Mex-Álvarez ◽  
José Ramón Cab-Chan
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Project Success ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Agile Project Management ◽  
Revisión Sistemática ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Agile Software

Agile project management is an iterative approach that allows you to plan and guide project processes that require special speed and flexibility to achieve project success. It is for this reason that today professionals must master the basic concepts of this work as disciplinary or professionalizing competence. The objective of the study lies mainly in compiling recent research, including the last three years, in relation to Agile Software Project Management, its current situation and its application in practice. The study shows the implementation of the methodology proposed by Kitchenham for the systematic literature review (RSL) analyzing 40 scientific publications, concluding that the agile management of software projects allows efficient and effective management with the application of a standard o priority methodology and with the unavoidable use of software tools of specific use for it.

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