The multiple quality models paradox: how much ‘best practice’ is just enough?
Today, several dozen global, national, and industry-specific standards compete for attention in the industry. Most companies have limited experience in implementing new quality models and few have experts across multiple quality model domains. For most ...
Economies and diseconomies of scale in software development
Economies and diseconomies of scale—gains and losses in productivity arising from increases in project size—are of considerable, practical importance in software engineering. However, there is no consensus as to whether, in general, economies or ...
Complex software project development: agile methods adoption
The Agile Software Development paradigm has become increasingly popular in the last few years, since it claims lower costs, better productivity, better quality and better business satisfaction. Supply chain management (SCM) is a complex software ...
