Bridging the Gap between Agile and Free Software Approaches

2011 ◽  
pp. 54-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Adams ◽  
Andrea Capiluppi
Keyword(s):  
Free Software ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Increase Productivity ◽  
Increase In Productivity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Small Team ◽  
Primary Contribution

Agile sprints are short events where a small team collocates in order to work on particular aspects of the overall project for a short period of time. Sprinting is a process that has been observed also in Free Software projects: these two paradigms, sharing common principles and values have shown several commonalities of practice. This article evaluates the impact of sprinting on a Free Software project through the analysis of code repository logs: sprints from two Free Software projects (Plone and KDE PIM) are assessed and two hypotheses are formulated: do sprints increase productivity? Are Free Software projects more productive after sprints compared with before? The primary contribution of this article is to show how sprinting creates a large increase in productivity both during the event, and immediately after the event itself: this argues for more in-depth studies focussing on the nature of sprinting.

Bridging the Gap between Agile and Free Software Approaches

2009 ◽  
pp. 3294-3307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Adams ◽  
Andrea Capiluppi
Keyword(s):  
Free Software ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Increase Productivity ◽  
Increase In Productivity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Small Team ◽  
Primary Contribution

Agile sprints are short events where a small team collocates in order to work on particular aspects of the overall project for a short period of time. Sprinting is a process that has been observed also in Free Software projects: these two paradigms, sharing common principles and values have shown several commonalities of practice. This article evaluates the impact of sprinting on a Free Software project through the analysis of code repository logs: sprints from two Free Software projects (Plone and KDE PIM) are assessed and two hypotheses are formulated: do sprints increase productivity? Are Free Software projects more productive after sprints compared with before? The primary contribution of this article is to show how sprinting creates a large increase in productivity both during the event, and immediately after the event itself: this argues for more in-depth studies focussing on the nature of sprinting.

scholarly journals Impact of Risk Determinants on the Perceived Performance of Software Projects in Emerging Economies

2020 ◽  
Vol V (IV) ◽  
pp. 48-59
Author(s):  
Ashfaq Ahmad ◽  
Nisar Ahmad ◽  
Nadia Malik
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Software Industry ◽  
Effective Control ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Perceived Performance ◽  
Project Risks ◽  
Risk Determinants ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Industry Risk

Effective control of risk factors ensures the performance of projects in any industry. Risk factors can influence software projects of any size and type. This research aims to identify and examine different risk factors associated with projects in the software industry. The relationship between Software Project Risks (SPRs) and Perceived Project Performance (PPP) measures is determined. This study is based on a survey approach, and a questionnaire is used to record opinions and responses from 199 software professionals working in the Pakistan software industry. The results showed that the association between SPRs and PPP measures is statistically significant, and there exist a positive relationship. It is concluded that an increase in understanding of SPRs can increase PPP measures used to evaluate the software project. The results will help researchers and professionals in understanding the impact of different risk factors on software projects' perceived performance.

scholarly journals Incorporation of Restriction Treatment Techniques Based on the particle swarm optimization Metaheuristic in the Software Project Scheduling Problem in Software Projects

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Werthen Santos ◽  
Leila Silva ◽  
André Britto
Keyword(s):  
Particle Swarm Optimization ◽  
Project Scheduling ◽  
Particle Swarm ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Scheduling Problem ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Swarm Optimization ◽  
Treatment Techniques ◽  
Project Scheduling Problem ◽  
The Impact

The Software Project Scheduling Problem in Software Projects consists of allocating employees to tasks in a way that minimizes the duration and cost of the project. To solve the problem metaheuristic algorithms have been applied, among them the multi-objective version of the Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm, SMPSO. However, the algorithm generates many solutions that violate some constraints, called invalid solutions. This work investigates the impact of the incorporation to the SMPSO of restriction treatment techniques based on penalty, in order to increase the number of valid solutions generated. The results suggest that the incorporation of the restriction treatment improves the quality of the generated solutions.

The Impact of Missing Skills on Learning and Project Performance

2011 ◽  
pp. 1445-1457
Author(s):  
James Jiang ◽  
Gary Klein ◽  
Phil Beck ◽  
Eric T.G. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Development Process ◽  
System Development ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Technology Learning ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

To improve the performance of software projects, a number of practices are encouraged that serve to control certain risks in the development process, including the risk of limited competences related to the application domain and system development process. A potential mediating variable between this lack of skill and project performance is the ability of an organization to acquire the essential domain knowledge and technology skills through learning, specifically organizational technology learning. However, the same lack of knowledge that hinders good project performance may also inhibit learning since a base of knowledge is essential in developing new skills and retaining lessons learned. This study examines the relationship between information system personnel skills and domain knowledge, organizational technology learning, and software project performance with a sample of professional software developers. Indications are that the relationship between information systems (IS) personnel skills and project performance is partially mediated by organizational technology learning.

The Impact of Missing Skills on Learning and Project Performance

2011 ◽  
pp. 288-301
Author(s):  
James Jiang ◽  
Gary Klein ◽  
Phil Beck ◽  
Eric T.G. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Development Process ◽  
System Development ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Technology Learning ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

To improve the performance of software projects, a number of practices are encouraged that serve to control certain risks in the development process, including the risk of limited competences related to the application domain and system development process. A potential mediating variable between this lack of skill and project performance is the ability of an organization to acquire the essential domain knowledge and technology skills through learning, specifically organizational technology learning. However, the same lack of knowledge that hinders good project performance may also inhibit learning since a base of knowledge is essential in developing new skills and retaining lessons learned. This study examines the relationship between information system personnel skills and domain knowledge, organizational technology learning, and software project performance with a sample of professional software developers. Indications are that the relationship between information systems (IS) personnel skills and project performance is partially mediated by organizational technology learning.

scholarly journals PERAN INVESTASI TERHADAP PEREKONOMIAN DAERAH : STUDI KASUS DI KABUPATEN GARUT

2020 ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
Rahmawatin Rahmawatin ◽  
Bayu Kharisma
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Standard Method ◽  
Investment Climate ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Full Capacity ◽  
Increase Productivity ◽  
Increase In Productivity ◽  
The Impact

High economic growth shows an increase in productivity, the impact of which can increase employment opportunities. Besides increasing productivity can also increase community income, reduce unemployment and reduce poverty. One component of economic growth is investment, which is needed to increase productivity. The aims of this paper was to determine the description or condition of the investment climate in Garut Regency viewed from the ICOR value coefficient. The results showed that the ICOR value illustrates the efficiency of investment in an area. The ICOR value of Garut Regency in 2018 is 5.7. By using the standard method, the results show that investment in Garut Regency needs lag (t + 4) so that an investment reaches full capacity

scholarly journals A Study Analysis on Effect of Software Scope Management and Scope creeping Factors in Software Project Management

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehreen Sirshar ◽  
Muneeza Khalid
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
System Development ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Information Technology Projects ◽  
Quality Product ◽  
Product Scope ◽  
Agile Approach ◽  
Scope Management ◽  
The Impact

Scope, time, and cost permanently effects each other and most of Information Technology projects fails due to these three factors. Scope shifting mostly occur due to time and cost. At project start, lack of understanding of project and product scope is focal involvement that leads to unsuccessful projects. Complete software scope definition determines quality of project. Defining the customer requirement and the definite scope of project has key role for implementation of project management. The complications originates when systems are developed from impractical expectations and misunderstanding requirements. These problems are cause of many changes, occurs in system development and leads to poor scope management. Scope creep is one of the momentous prompting parameter on the success of project. The failure in manage scope creep leads for 80 percent of software projects failure. However, using agile approach the impact of scope creep on projects become insignificant. A correctly distinct scope tends us to develop a quality product, within identified plans and decided cost to the stake-holders.

The Impact of Project Initiators on Open Source Software Project Success

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-43
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 ◽  
Collaborative Innovation ◽  
The Impact

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 Impacts of synergies on software project scheduling

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zsolt T. Kosztyán ◽  
Eszter Bogdány ◽  
István Szalkai ◽  
Marcell T. Kurbucz
Keyword(s):  
Project Scheduling ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Structural Parameters ◽  
Network Size ◽  
Project Teams ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Flexible Management ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe adequate allocation of human resources is one of the most important success factors in software projects. Although project teams can be regarded as complex systems in which a team’s performance is highly influenced by the interdependencies among team members, the allocation methods applied to date have focused only on individual skills and consider project teams as units of isolated workers. The existing software project scheduling problem (SPSP) is extended to (1) consider different skills and efficiencies of employees and (2) examine the pairwise synergies between them, as well as to (3) handle the flexible structure of the project that is used in flexible management, such as agile project management. To better understand the impact of synergies on the project’s cost, the solutions of the traditional and extended SPSP versions are analyzed and compared on the generated project networks. The results show not only that this factor has a highly significant impact but also that the project cost strongly depends on the structural parameters of the synergy network (e.g., topology, network size and degree centrality). Among these parameters, a low degree of centrality and some topologies, most notably star and circular networks, obtained the highest reduction in the projects’ total cost.

scholarly journals Perspectives on the adherance to scrum rules in software project management

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 360
Author(s):  
Leanah Alsaber ◽  
Ebtesam Al Elsheikh ◽  
Sarah Aljumah ◽  
Nor Shahida Mohd Jamail
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
System Development ◽  
Health Information System ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
The Impact

Adapting users need to fulfill their requirements and delivering products to be on time within the planned cost, is critical matter that all software project managers (SPM) put the highest priority for it while considering the users satisfaction at the same time. Agile methodology is one of the solutions provided by software engineers (SE), to get the customers involved in the system development life cycle (SDLC) to avoid the risk nonconformance cost. Yet SPM’s still facing the nonconformance costs and the dynamic changes, and the root cause of the issue is not pointed on to find a solution for it. This undertaking research aimed at determining whether software developers understand scrum rules. In addition, how does this knowledge gab affect the software projects success from the project management perspective. Furthermore, the engagement studied the impact of lack of enough knowledge on the topic to project delivery. The collected data from the qualitative and quantitative methods, which was conducted with scrum teams who worked in the <span>health information system</span> (HIS), Educational solutions, and Governmental solutions has showed deviations in organizational practices and team conflicting, competition, and pressure as well as declined product quality.

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