The microfinance movement aims to deliver financial services to the poor and the ‘unbanked' in the developing world. Microfinance providers are NGO-based partnerships between grassroots and aid agencies. ICTs are seen as a driver for economic growth and organisational change in developing...

This paper makes the business case for automating the collection ofsoftware metrics for gauging development performance in integratedcomputer aided software engineering (CASE) environments that arecharacterized by an object-oriented development methodology and acentralized repository. The...

An examination of code reuse at a large financial institution yields insightsinto the process of code reuse. The software development environment -- basedon an integrated CASE system -- was designed to support code reuse, but at theend of its first two years we find that programmers are not...