Offshore software outsourcing, a major contributor to globally distributed work (GDW), has been identified as one of the most striking manifestations of contemporary globalisation. In particular, offshoring resonates with influential views that suggest that ICTs have rendered location...

Test tools have become ubiquitous in the practice of Software Quality Assurance. Every year, many millions of dollars are spent on specialized software to help manage requirements, test cases, or defects—or to automate test execution. But, after purchasing the software, many companies fail to...

Contemporary Information System Development (ISD) is performed within operational environments characterized by rapid change across many dimensions – including personnel, user requirements, regulation, and technology architectures. The rapidity, extent, and inevitability of this environmental...

Reviewer: Ammenwerth, Elske

The software development process has been curtailed by the lack of a methodology that can captureand maintain the softer, humanist characteristics of organizational systems into the software product.This is attributed to the absence of a software model that can capture and maintain...

Software development is a process tasked withthe development of artefacts that are used toimplement organizational information systems.Depending on the social, economical andenvironmental setting, different softwarepractices are used. These, however, have aneffect on the resultant software...

Modern computer systems are becoming more powerful and complex. This growth in system complexity results in corresponding increase of system integration process (SIP) complexity. System integration (SI) phase of system development life cycle (SDLC) has the highest risks in system development,...

Die Industrialisierung ist mittlerweile auch in der Softwarebranche angekommen. In dieser Arbeit wird ein Modell vorgestellt, das eine Einstufung der verschiedenen Auspr?gungen der Industrialisierung in der Anwendungsentwicklung erm?glicht. Ferner wird auf Basis dieses Modells ein...

In Zeiten von Globalisierung, kurzen Produktlebenszyklen und schnellem technologischen Fortschritt gewinnen Projekte ?ber alle Branchen zunehmend an Bedeutung ? so auch in der Softwarebranche. Nahezu jedes Unternehmen muss derzeit gro?e Anstrengungen im Bereich Projektmanagement unternehmen, um...

The implementation and operation of efficient information security management systems (ISMS) according to the ISO/IEC 27001 standard involves a number of steps, among others implementation and operation of appropriate processes, policies and objectives. The crucial issue is the correct...