Collaboration change in enterprise software development

ISO 9000 certification and construction project performance: The Malaysian experience

A Cappella and Diva: A Collaborative Process for Individual Academic Writing

The business environment is surrounded by economic uncertainties, which shows the need to develop methodological practices that make it competitive, sustainable and innovative. The purpose of this paper is of analysing the relationships between the project management practices, the product and process innovation, and the sustainable competitive advantage in enterprises in Southern Brazil. This research has a quantitative and descriptive character, in which the data were collected through a survey in 226 enterprises in the Activity Sectors of Industrial Manufacturing, Commerce and Services. Data analysis done through the Structural Equation Modelling, we used the following techniques and methods: Exploratory Factor Analysis, Confirmatory Factor Analysis, and Hypotheses tests. The research showed that enterprises use project management practices and have product innovation and process innovation, which are essential for sustainable competitive advantage. However, the enterprises are moving towards proactive behaviours, since they present innovative actions for their market permanence and competitiveness, once the organisations face constant legal and political enforcement, due to the globalised market. The research shows evidence which may help the enterprises’ managers and decision-makers to improve or influence their enterprises’ competitive and sustainable performance. In this sense, the practical implications of the research are presented to add value to project managers and researchers.

This article uses the results of a survey of 56 American construction project managers to identify some risks and improvement opportunities pertaining to the practice of effective project management. In the process, the most and least important project management variables are identified and ranked. Next, the extent of knowledge, extent of use, and extent of relevance to project success are examined for project managers with and without international project management experience. Results of these analyses suggest improvement opportunity for business and higher learning in terms of training and educating future project managers. Based on the results of this study, it is concluded that both higher learning and business must approach the art and practice of project management from a global open system perspective. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

This paper presents a model to assess Software Project Management (SPM) practices using our Software Project Management Maturity Assessment (SPMMA) model. We discuss the model procedure, assessment inputs and outputs, the assessment questionnaires, team selection associated with the SPMMA. We have tested our model in a mid-size IT company. One pilot project conferred with ISO 9001 certification has been selected in order to perform the assessment. For this version of assessment, it only focuses on the Project Management practices which comprise Project Planning, Project Monitoring and Control and Risk Management process areas. The paper also discuss about strength and weaknesses of the current process in the pilot project.

Rethinking dichotomization: A critical perspective on the use of “hard” and “soft” in project management research

Summary form only given. Conceptual Models are developed on the basis of established theories and tested by quantitative business management research to explore behavioral and social constructs and their relationships. These identified constructs in quantitative research have not been captured through knowledge management tools such as ontological representations defined in computer science, which is often used in the design and development of enterprise software, social networks, search engines, and even research repositories of medical sciences. This study is focused on developing an ontological representation of conceptual models by integrating the behavioral and social constructs and their relationships, which are already established in quantitative business management researches.

Enterprise agility depends, largely, on software adaptability. This thesis investigates how to develop enterprise software that is flexible by nature and supports its end-users in their requirements, without sacrificing development speed or traceability. A model-drive approach is chosen where software is generated from models. DEMO ontological models are chosen as the starting point as they claim to be complete and consistent. In order to further increase traceability in the software design and development process, a framework is designed to make all design decisions explicit. In four practice-driven experiments, it has been shown that such an approach towards ‘enterprise ontology-driven software development’ is feasible and supports the identified needs. This research has laid the foundations to create the next generation of low-code composable platforms that support non-technical people to easily, quickly, and cost-efficiently create adaptable software that supports changing enterprises.

Objective: In an age when competitive advantage needs to be sustained through innovation, especially in the very fast and dynamic tech industry, good practices in project management make a vital contribution toward successfully manoeuvring through the complexities of innovation projects. This study highlights the economic implications of project management on innovation performance within technology-based ventures, particularly in Saudi Arabia’s evolving tech ecosystem. Method: An empirical analysis of 372 responses using an SEM approach investigates the alignment of innovation objectives with project management practices by identifying key factors that contribute to innovation performance in an evolving tech ecosystem in Saudi Arabia. Results and Discussion: The research concluded that good project management practices can, to a high extent, enhance the innovative capability of tech startups, whereby the converted ideas can come into existence and be taken from the idea level to the marketplace. Research Implications: The practical implications of the research were to recommend ways in which tech startups and other firms can enhance their innovation performance by embracing best practices in project management. This implies that by coupling these economic practices with strategic innovation objectives, by fostering collaboration, and by managing resources and risks efficiently, organizations can substantially enhance their innovation capacity and ensure long-term success in competitive markets. Originality/Value: This study contributes to the growing body of knowledge at the border between project management and innovation and can contribute something new for both practitioners and policymakers within the tech environment.

Increased project complexity, project dynamics and changes in clients’ requirements are a few examples that suggest the necessity for flexibility in project management in order to deliver successful projects. Despite the fact that literature suggests adding flexibility to project management, there is no existing framework that provides a practical method for adding flexibility into the practice of project management in the construction industry. Therefore, this research is aimed at proposing a practical framework that helps practitioners in embedding project management flexibility into their project management practice. The research question is as follows: how to embed flexibility in the practice of project management in the early project phases? To answer the research question, four sub-questions have been formulated, which have been separately researched. The main question is answered by proposing a flexibility framework. This framework comprises four stages: understanding the current situation, practitioners’ perspectives on flexible project management, choosing enablers to become flexible and applying selected enablers to improve project performance. The framework is validated using the examples given by practitioners from 24 cases. Considering the movements towards flexibility and adaptability concepts, this research fills the gap in literature by providing a practical framework for project management flexibility. Moreover, it provides a step-by-step guideline for practitioners to embed flexibility in practice.

The aim of this research is to examine the level of adoption and application of project management practices in a not-for-profit organization within a case study of performance for all northwest. The growing competition for limited resources amongst organizations, both profit making and not-for-profit, continues to be a major driver for these organizations to adopt project management practices that can improve project performance efficiency and increase project success. Many research activities carried out on application of project management principles have been focused on profit-making organization especially the large companies. However, this research attempts to investigate the level of project management application within a not-for-profit company in the United Kingdom. This research was conducted based on Performance for All Northwest (PFA) as a case study. The company is a small social enterprise in the Northwest of England. A review of literature on project management framework, methodology and best practices across various disciplines was conducted. A qualitative method was adopted in the research and semi structured interview was conducted with the founder and a selected employee. The data obtained were subjected to qualitative evaluation, review of literature and a comparative analysis of the current project management practices within the organization with project management best practices was also conducted. The study utilized purposive sampling; a targeted selection process deemed suitable for its focus on individuals with specific insights into the organization. Purposive, or judgmental sampling, is preferred when researchers aim to engage a particular segment of the population that meets predefined criteria. Despite the limited sample size due to company size constraints, two respondents were identified as fitting the criteria based on their substantial experience within the organization. The result of the analysis shows that project management best practices regarding scope, time, and cost management are still lacking within the not-for-profit industry. It also reveals that inadequate knowledge of the importance of project management to organizational efficiency and project performance exists within the organization. The research further made recommendations for Performance for All Northwest and other not-for-profit organizations. The study confirms that although an increasing number of organizations are beginning to adopt modern project management methodologies, many are still using the conventional style of managing projects. The research has highlighted some important issues relating to project management practices at PFA. The research findings have identified some crucial gaps in the adoption of project management practices and will therefore recommend project planning, training, development, and lessons learned strategies to help improve project outcomes. While other studies on project management practices are centered on profits organizations, this study goes on to indicate specifically that not-for-profit organizations have not fully understood and appreciated how project management principles and methodologies can assist them in project performance and easier attainment of organizational objectives.

Normalization has become traditional in database design theory and practice. One disadvantage of the model-driven development is that usage of concepts normalization, and functional dependency in the enterprise software engineering is limited to only one stage of system development life cycle (SDLC) -the database design stage. The provided research of these concepts motivate normalization of the entire SDLC. The main part of the paper is devoted to the normalization of the enterprise modeling stage, which is based on the perceived causality of the target domain. The concepts of management functional dependency (MFD) and management transaction (MT) introduced for capturing causal dependencies within the target domain. The first step is the discovery of MFD of business activities. MT is an initial specification of MFD, which gives a basis for enterprise model normalization using the detailed frameworks. Enterprise model normal forms ENF1 -ENF5 defined and illustrated.

This paper presents a model upper-division capstone computer science course that teaches the fundamentals and develops skills for enterprise software development. The course assumes strong fundamentals in computer science and experience in systems-analysis and object-oriented analysis. The software is developed for a business client and the client is involved during the software development process. Fundamentals of distributed systems development, Internet and Web architecture is presented together with the facets of J2EE as a representative platform for such development.This approach facilitates experiential learning and moves away from the classic learning-through-academic-exercise. The class works as a software team and through meetings, assignments, and discussion an agile development process is followed to deliver product for the customer.

This paper conducts a comprehensive analysis based on the typical research of the traditional project-driven teaching model of software programming practice courses. According to the software programming course's own software engineering discipline attributes and the typical development model in enterprise software development, a life cycle model theory based on the software engineering discipline is proposed. As a basis, we can flexibly choose different software development models according to the different scales of project cases used in the classroom, and design teaching links scientifically and rationally according to the typical development process of different models of software engineering. Thereby, a teaching process design plan for software programming courses is formed, which meets the actual needs of the company's position and can reflect the dominant position of students, which is conducive to the cultivation of applied talents with soft engineer qualities in universities.

Securing inter-service communication and data access has become crucial as microservices become the architectural standard in enterprise software development. In dynamic, cloud-native systems, traditional perimeter-based security solutions are no longer adequate. The Zero-Trust Architecture (ZTA) in Java-based microservices is thoroughly examined in this study. We go over the fundamentals of ZTA, look at how it applies to microservices, and offer thorough methods for implementing zero-trust policies with industry-standard frameworks and tools like OAuth 2.0, Istio, and Spring Security. Additionally, a case study showing how ZTA is implemented in a distributed Java microservices application is provided.