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...

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...

Predicting the time to build software is a very complex task for software engineering managers. There are complex factors that can directly interfere with the productivity of the development team. Factors directly related to the complexity of the system to be developed drastically change the...