The identification and management of work dependencies is a fundamental challenge in software development organizations. This paper argues that modularization, the traditional tec...
Marcelo Cataldo, James D. Herbsleb, Kathleen M. Ca...
One promising approach to more effective software development is the concept of product platform originated from mechanical engineering, aiming at architectural product families i...
1 In this paper we characterize and model the cost of rework in a Component Factory (CF) organization. A CF is responsible for developing and packaging reusable software components...
Victor R. Basili, Steven E. Condon, Khaled El Emam...
Abstract: There is a lack of a systematic, generic, domain independent objectoriented software engineering process for software familes. In such process a system family should be t...
In this paper, we examined the impact of project-level configurational choices of globally distributed software teams on project productivity, quality, and profits. Our analysis u...