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A Field Study of the Software Design Process for Large Systems

by Bill Curtis, Herb Krasner, Neil Iscoe - Communications of the ACM , 1988
"... The problems of designing large software systems were studied through interviewing personnel from 17 large projects. A layered behavioral model is used to analyze how three lgf these problems-the thin spread of application domain knowledge, fluctuating and conflicting requirements, and communication ..."
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The problems of designing large software systems were studied through interviewing personnel from 17 large projects. A layered behavioral model is used to analyze how three lgf these problems-the thin spread of application domain knowledge, fluctuating and conflicting requirements

Working for Free? Motivations for Participating in Open-Source Projects

by Alexander Hars - International Journal of Electronic Commerce , 2002
"... The success of the Linux operating system has demonstrated the viability of an alternative form of software development – open source software – that challenges traditional assumptions about software markets. Understanding what drives open source developers to participate in open source projects is ..."
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is crucial for assessing the impact of open source software. This article identifies two broad types of motivations that account for their participation in open source projects. The first category includes internal factors such as intrinsic motivation and altruism, and the second category focuses on external

Self-Adaptive Software: Landscape and Research Challenges

by Mazeiar Salehie, Ladan Tahvildari - ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems , 2009
"... Software systems dealing with distributed applications in changing environments normally require human supervision to continue operation in all conditions. These (re-)configuring, troubleshooting, and in general maintenance tasks lead to costly and time-consuming procedures during the operating phas ..."
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), and preferences of stakeholders. Noting these requirements, it is widely believed that new models and frameworks are needed to design self-adaptive software. This survey article presents a taxonomy, based on concerns of adaptation, i.e., how, what, when and where, towards providing a unified view of this emerging

Stakenet: Using social networks to analyse the stakeholders of large-scale software projects

by Soo Ling Lim, Daniele Quercia, Anthony Finkelstein - in Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)-Volume 1. ACM
"... Many software projects fail because they overlook stakehold-ers or involve the wrong representatives of significant groups. Unfortunately, existing methods in stakeholder analysis are likely to omit stakeholders, and consider all stakeholders as equally influential. To identify and prioritise stakeh ..."
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Many software projects fail because they overlook stakehold-ers or involve the wrong representatives of significant groups. Unfortunately, existing methods in stakeholder analysis are likely to omit stakeholders, and consider all stakeholders as equally influential. To identify and prioritise

Modeling Software Project Monitoring with Stakeholders

by Masateru Tsunoda, Tomoko Matsumura, Ken-ichi Matsumoto
"... Abstract—Recently, software size becomes larger, and consequently, not only a software developer but also a software purchaser suffers considerable losses by software project failure. So avoiding project failure is also important for purchasers. Project monitoring with a purchaser and a developer (s ..."
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(stakeholders) is expected for the purchaser to suppress risk of project failure. It is performed by sharing software metrics during the project for the purchaser to grasp the status of the project. Although there are some software measurement models, they cannot describe two kinds of metrics which are used

Impact of Stakeholder Type and Collaboration on Issue Resolution Time in OSS Projects

by Nguyen Duc , Anh , Daniela S Cruzes , Claudia Ayala , Reidar Conradi
"... Abstract. Initialized by a collective contribution of volunteer developers, Open source software (OSS) attracts an increasing involvement of commercial firms. Many OSS projects are composed of a mix group of firm-paid and volunteer developers, with different motivations, collaboration practices and ..."
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and working styles. As OSS development consists of collaborative works in nature, it is important to know whether these differences have an impact on collaboration between difference types of stakeholders, which lead to an influence in the project outcomes. In this paper, we empirically investigate the firm

Impact of stakeholder type and collaboration on issue resolution time in OSS Projects

by Nguyen Duc Anh, Daniela S. Cruzes, Claudia Ayala, Reidar Conradi
"... Abstract. Initialized by a collective contribution of volunteer developers, Open source software (OSS) attracts an increasing involvement of commercial firms. Many OSS projects are composed of a mix group of firm-paid and volunteer developers, with different motivations, collaboration practices and ..."
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and working styles. As OSS development consists of collaborative works in nature, it is important to know whether these differences have an impact on collaboration between difference types of stakeholders, which lead to an influence in the project outcomes. In this paper, we empirically investigate the firm

Subversion Statistics Sifter

by Christoph Müller, Guido Reina, Michael Burch, Daniel Weiskopf
"... Abstract. We present Subversion Statistics Sifter, a visualisation and statistics system for exploring the structure and evolution of data contained in Subversion repositories with respect to both developer activity and source code changes. We support a variety of visualisation techniques, including ..."
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this principle, the system can easily be extended by additional visualisation techniques. We illustrate the usefulness of Subversion Statistics Sifter by case studies of student lab and open source software projects. 1

Evidence-based Software Engineering

by Barbara A. Kitchenham, Tore Dybå, Magne Jørgensen , 2004
"... Objective: Our objective is to describe how software engineering might benefit from an evidence-based approach and to identify the potential difficulties associated with the approach. Method: We compared the organisation and technical infrastructure supporting evidence-based medicine (EBM) with the ..."
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) with the situation in software engineering. We considered the impact that factors peculiar to software engineering (i.e. the skill factor and the lifecycle factor) would have on our ability to practice evidence-based software engineering (EBSE). Results: EBSE promises a number of benefits by encouraging integration

Diagnosing organizational risks in software projects: Stakeholder resistance

by Simon L R Vrhovec , Tomaž Hovelja , Damjan Vavpotič , Marjan Krisper
"... Abstract Critical success and failure factors of software projects were extensively studied. However, software project risk management has rarely researched organizational risks even though most problems occur when the social aspects are not addressed. By employing the resistance to change theory, ..."
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Abstract Critical success and failure factors of software projects were extensively studied. However, software project risk management has rarely researched organizational risks even though most problems occur when the social aspects are not addressed. By employing the resistance to change theory
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