Download or read book PROJECT MANAGER CENTRALITY IN EFFECTING SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM PERFORMANCE written by Raschada Nootjarat and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation proposed and tested a theoretical model that considered the project manager centrality as a moderator on the relationship between team cohesion and team performance. Self-administered questionnaires were sent to 150 members of 8 software development teams and yielded a response rate of 91% (136 members). It was found that the teams with a high centrality project manager in task-advice network had higher team cohesion-performance relationship than the teams with a low centrality project manager. The result also suggested that the managers whose teams with a high centrality members and cohesive subgroups had low team performance. However, the research did not find the effect of project manager centrality in friendship network on the relationship between team cohesion and team performance. The findings from this research would extend the knowledge on team's social network studies by suggesting that the high centrality project manager enhances the team cohesion-performance relationship. The high centrality project manager shares task-oriented leader characteristic that focuses in driving the team's works. Such characteristic reveals that the project manager can maximize the utility of team cohesion in achieving team performance.

Download or read book Applied Software Project Management written by Andrew Stellman and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2005-11-18 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you're looking for solid, easy-to-follow advice on estimation, requirements gathering, managing change, and more, you can stop now: this is the book for you."--Scott Berkun, Author of The Art of Project Management What makes software projects succeed? It takes more than a good idea and a team of talented programmers. A project manager needs to know how to guide the team through the entire software project. There are common pitfalls that plague all software projects and rookie mistakes that are made repeatedly--sometimes by the same people! Avoiding these pitfalls is not hard, but it is not necessarily intuitive. Luckily, there are tried and true techniques that can help any project manager. In Applied Software Project Management, Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene provide you with tools, techniques, and practices that you can use on your own projects right away. This book supplies you with the information you need to diagnose your team's situation and presents practical advice to help you achieve your goal of building better software. Topics include: Planning a software project Helping a team estimate its workload Building a schedule Gathering software requirements and creating use cases Improving programming with refactoring, unit testing, and version control Managing an outsourced project Testing software Jennifer Greene and Andrew Stellman have been building software together since 1998. Andrew comes from a programming background and has managed teams of requirements analysts, designers, and developers. Jennifer has a testing background and has managed teams of architects, developers, and testers. She has led multiple large-scale outsourced projects. Between the two of them, they have managed every aspect of software development. They have worked in a wide range of industries, including finance, telecommunications, media, nonprofit, entertainment, natural-language processing, science, and academia. For more information about them and this book, visit stellman-greene.com

Download or read book Multi Disciplinary Advancement in Open Source Software and Processes written by Koch, Stefan and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book reviews the development, design, and use of free and open source software, providing relevant topics of discussion for programmers, as well as researchers in human-computer studies, online and virtual collaboration, and e-learning"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Design Architecture Developer Networks and Performance of Open Source Software Projects written by Xiang Liu and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: In this dissertation I seek to understand the factors differentiating successful from unsuccessful software projects by investigating how design architectures and developers' positions within collaborative networks affect software project outcomes. There is a growing body of evidence that a product's architecture - defined here as decisions made regarding how to decompose design tasks and the resulting design structure - is a critical issue to both researchers and managers to understand. However, prior research studies on software development tend to emphasize design without taking into account the collaborative development environment, or have little power in predicting the phenomena with which the design constructs are associated because of insufficient empirical evidence. This dissertation develops and tests a model measuring the impact on software project performance of (1) software products' design architectures and (2) developers' positions within collaborative networks. Three indicators of project success are used: product quality, the signal of market success, and project velocity. Two dimensions of design architecture--degree of decomposition and coupling--and two characteristics of developer network structures--degree centrality and structural holes--are investigated for their impact on project performance. Using data gathered from SourceForge.net and the data warehouse including its monthly dumps, empirical analysis is conducted on the top 100 ranked projects and compared to a randomly chosen 100 projects. The main findings are that (1) the degree of decomposition has an inverted U-shaped relationship with project performance, (2) When tested on the sample of top 100 projects, average degree centrality of a project team has a positive and significant effects on project performance, and (3) the effects of network metrics on some of the indicators of project performance are positive in the top 100 projects and some of them are negative in random 100 projects. We employ some control variables such as number of projects each developer works on and organizational sponsorship to provide insights into the direction of the effect of degree centrality and structural holes on project success. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed, and several future research directions will be outlined.

Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Team Working and Collaborative Processes written by Eduardo Salas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A state-of-the-art psychological perspective on team working and collaborative organizational processes This handbook makes a unique contribution to organizational psychology and HRM by providing comprehensive international coverage of the contemporary field of team working and collaborative organizational processes. It provides critical reviews of key topics related to teams including design, diversity, leadership, trust processes and performance measurement, drawing on the work of leading thinkers including Linda Argote, Neal Ashkanasy, Robert Kraut, Floor Rink and Daan van Knippenberg.

Download or read book Software Engineering Research Management and Applications written by Roger Lee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the outcomes of the 16th International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence Research, Management and Applications (SERA 2018), which was held in Kunming, China on June 13–15, 2018. The aim of the conference was to bring together researchers and scientists, businessmen and entrepreneurs, teachers, engineers, computer users, and students to discuss the various fields of computer science, to share their experiences, and to exchange new ideas and information in a meaningful way. The book includes findings on all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of computer and information science, and discusses related practical challenges and the solutions adopted to solve them. The conference organizers selected the best papers from those accepted for presentation. The papers were chosen based on review scores submitted by members of the program committee and underwent a further rigorous round of review. From this second round, 13 of the conference’s most promising papers were then published in this Springer (SCI) book and not the conference proceedings. We eagerly await the important contributions that we know these authors will make to the field of computer and information science.

Download or read book Managing Knowledge for Global and Collaborative Innovations written by Samuel Kai Wah Chu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Networked and interconnected world, improving communication, collaboration and knowledge sharing between people and organization is very important. This book provides an insight into knowledge management practices and their applications to a wide range of complex issues.

Download or read book Project Risk Impact on Software Development Team Performance written by James J. Jiang and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project teams are formed to control the technical challenges and risks in system development. This paper examines the relationship between the various risks of system development and project team performance. The results reveal a significant positive relationship between project team performance and user support and top management support. These findings support the general belief that effective project teams reduce technical risks involved in system development. They also support the concept that success is likely determined by the levels of agreement among users, managers, and information systems (IS) developers. Methods on obtaining user involvement and top management support are recommended.

Download or read book The Role of Leadership in High Performance Software Development Teams written by John Mason Ward and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this research was to investigate the role of leadership in creating high performance software development teams. Of specific interest were the challenges faced by the Project Manager without a software engineering background. These challenges included management of a non-visible process, planning projects with significant uncertainty, and working with teams that don't trust their leadership. Conclusions were drawn from the author's experience as a software development manager facing these problems and a broad literature review of experts from the software and knowledge worker management fields. The primary conclusion was that, until the next big breakthrough, gains in software development productivity resulting from technology are limited. The only way for a group to distinguish itself as performing at the highest levels is teamwork enabled by good leadership.

Download or read book Elements of Software Project Management written by G. P. Sudhakar and published by PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Getting Results from Software Development Teams written by Lawrence J. Peters and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn best practices for software development project management--and lead your teams and projects to success. Dr. Lawrence Peters is an industry-recognized expert with decades of experience conducting research and leading real-world software projects. Beyond getting the best developers, equipment, budget, and timeline possible--Peters concludes that no factor is more critical to project success than the manager's role. Drawing on proven practices from allied industries such as business, psychology, accounting, and law, he describes a broader project-management methodology--with principles that software managers can readily adapt to help increase their own effectiveness and the productivity of their teams. Unlike other books on the topic, this book focuses squarely on the manager--and shows how to get results without adopting philosophies from Genghis Khan or Machiavelli. (There is mention of Godzilla, however.) Packed with real-world examples and pragmatic advice, this book shows any software development manager--new or experienced--how to lead teams in delivering the right results for their business.

Download or read book Hyper Productive Knowledge Work Performance written by Steve Tendon and published by J. Ross Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Reading Hyper-Productive Knowledge Work Performance has influenced my thinking more than any other recent book I have read about how to transform my company’s culture to achieve higher levels of productivity. It’s like the perfect mix of Fred Brooks, W. Edwards Deming, Donald Reinertsen, David Anderson, and Jeff Sutherland all rolled into one approachable and pragmatic book. I recognized a lot of what I already knew and then was pleasantly surprised with how the authors used hyper-productivity to show how it all interconnected. All in all, it is an eye opening book that provides a concrete path to hyper-productivity.” —Curt Hibbs, Chief Agile Evangelist, Boeing This unique reference shows how to lead knowledge workers, manage knowledge work and build a hyper-productive knowledge work organization, by taming and managing the four flows of organizational performance (psychology, information, work and finance) to produce spectacular operational and financial throughput results. Inspired by his experience and knowledge gained at Borland International, where a hyper-productive level of performance was achieved resulting in the most productive software project ever documented, author Steve Tendon devised TameFlow. TameFlow is an approach that can be superimposed on any preexisting process, method, and practice to enable performance improvement by several orders of magnitude and a state of hyper-productivity. It is adaptable to nearly every industry, and can be applied to any knowledge work domain or organization that generates business value through knowledge. TameFlow blends and merges different ideas from a variety of schools of thought. It is founded in pattern theory and organizational performance patterns which are used to analyze and decompose processes, methodologies, and management practices into constituent parts to observe productivity patterns, and then they are recombined in new configurations to enable hyper-productive levels of performance. In this volume of The TameFlow Hyper-Productivity Series, the TameFlow approach is explained within the context of knowledge work performed in a software development organization. Mr. Tendon teams up with author, Wolfram Müller, a thought-leader and expert in Critical Chain and Advanced Agile Project Management to illustrate its application to Scrum, the most widely used Agile software project management framework, and to Kanban, a method used for knowledge work with an emphasis on just-in-time delivery and change management. The authors demonstrate how constraints management (TOC) can improve Scrum and Kanban in powerful ways, bringing more predictability of behavior of the system as a whole, as well as to the individuals involved. Their combination becomes a breeding ground for the development of Unity of Purpose and Community of Trust. Both Scrum and Kanban can be extended with features of the TOC, and help create a hyper-productive organization.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology written by Cartelli, Antonio and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NetLibrary named the Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology as their September 2008 e-book of the month! CLICK HERE to view the announcement. The Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology (ICT) is a comprehensive resource describing the influence of information communication technology in scientific knowledge construction, with emphasis on the roles of product technologies, process technologies, and context technologies. Through 111 authoritative contributions by 93 of the world's leading experts this reference covers the materials and instruments of information technology: from ICT in education to software engineering; the influence of ICT on different environments, including e-commerce, decision support systems, knowledge management, and more; and the most pervasive presence of information technology, including studies and research on knowledge management, the human side of ICT, ICT in healthcare, and virtual organizations, among many others. Addressing many of the fundamental issues of information communication technology, the Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology will be a top-shelf resource for any reference library.

Download or read book Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Engineering and Applications IEA 2012 written by Zhicai Zhong and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information engineering and applications is the field of study concerned with constructing information computing, intelligent systems, mathematical models, numerical solution techniques, and using computers and other electronic devices to analyze and solve natural scientific, social scientific and engineering problems. Information engineering is an important underpinning for techniques used in information and computational science and there are many unresolved problems worth studying. The Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Engineering and Applications (IEA 2012), which was held in Chongqing, China, from October 26-28, 2012, discusses the most innovative research and developments including technical challenges and social, legal, political, and economic issues. A forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government, the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Engineering and Applications presents ideas, results, works in progress, and experience in all aspects of information engineering and applications.

Download or read book An Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Software Size Increase on Software Project Management Behavior written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing demand for software and increasing shortfalls of programmers have focused efforts to improve software project productivity on the role of the software project manager. The complex dynamics of software project development, and the visibility of the project, affect decision making and performance to a large degree. Using the System Dynamics Model for software project management, these and other issues can be evaluated with low financial risk or outlays through simulation of software projects. This thesis investigates the effect of changing one of the dynamics (i.e., size) on the behavior and performance of the project manager by using a simulation of an actual software project in a game environment. Analysis of the results indicates that increased visibility significantly improves project schedule.

Download or read book Management Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes special issues: The Professional series in the management sciences.

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