English
Related papers

Related papers: Why Your IT Project Might Be Riskier Than You Thin…

200 papers

IT-driven innovation is an enormous factor in the worldwide economic leadership of the United States. It is larger than finance, construction, or transportation, and it employs nearly 6% of the US workforce. The top three companies, as…

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are rapidly becoming universal. The success of IoT cannot be ignored in the scenario today, along with its attacks and threats on IoT devices and facilities are also increasing day by day. Cyber attacks…

In the software development industry, technical debt is regarded as a critical issue in term of the negative consequences such as increased software development cost, low product quality, decreased maintainability, and slowed progress to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Simon Hacks , Hendrik Höfert , Johannes Salentin , Yoon Chow Yeong , Horst Lichter

Turnover consists of moving into and out of professional employees in the company in a given period. Such a phenomenon significantly impacts the software industry since it generates knowledge loss, delays in the schedule, and increased…

Self-admitted technical debt (SATD) is a particular case of Technical Debt (TD) where developers explicitly acknowledge their sub-optimal implementation decisions. Previous studies mine SATD by searching for specific TD-related terms in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Laerte Xavier , Fabio Ferreira , Rodrigo Brito , Marco Tulio Valente

While free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) is critical to global computing infrastructure, the maintenance of widely-adopted FLOSS packages is dependent on volunteer developers who select their own tasks. Risk of failure due to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Matthew Gaughan , Kaylea Champion , Sohyeon Hwang

Using artificial intelligence to manage IT operations, also known as AIOps, is a trend that has attracted a lot of interest and anticipation in recent years. The challenge in IT operations is to run steady-state operations without…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Subhadip Kumar

This report reviews the Edinburgh tram project's risk management. Projects frequently overrun their cost and timelines and fall short on intended benefits. Cost, schedule, and benefit risk of projects need to be carefully considered to…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-05-31 Bent Flyvbjerg , Alexander Budzier

In software project management, risk management is a critical factor. Project managers use existing lists of risk or perform brainstorming to identify the risks. However, it is not easy to perceive all the risks objectively. As a result,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Yukasa Murakami , Masateru Tsunoda , Eduardo C. Campos

Technical debt refers to taking shortcuts to achieve short-term goals, which might negatively influence software maintenance in the long-term. There is increasing attention on technical debt that is admitted by developers in source code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Yikun Li , Mohamed Soliman , Paris Avgeriou

The fierce market competition has put pressure on organizations leveraging their value chains. The continuous development in strategic technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) has pushed organizations to continuously acquire new…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Samaa Elnagar , Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson

Today's increasing rate of technological change results from the rapid growth in computer processing speed, when combined with the cost decline of processing capacity, and is of historical import. The daily life of billions of individuals…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Lawrence J. Trautman , Mohammed T. Hussein , Louis Ngamassi , Mason J. Molesky

Background: Technical Debt (TD) describes suboptimal software development practices with long-term consequences, such as defects and vulnerabilities. Deadlines are a leading cause of the emergence of TD in software systems. While multiple…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Joshua Aldrich Edbert , Zadia Codabux , Roberto Verdecchia

Many companies consider IoT as a central element for increasing competitiveness. Despite the growing number of cyberattacks on IoT devices and the importance of IoT security, no study has yet primarily focused on the impact of IoT security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Ievgeniia Kuzminykh , Bogdan Ghita , Jose M. Such

The objectives of this study was to bring out the understanding of the concept of agile IT project management; what it is and what it is not. It was also aimed at comparing the pros and cons of both agile and traditional methods of IT…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Godfred Yaw Koi-Akrofi , Joyce Koi-Akrofi , Henry Akwetey Matey

Development of sustainable insurance for cyber risks, with associated benefits, inter alia requires reduction of ambiguity of the risk. Considering cyber risk, and data breaches in particular, as a man-made catastrophe clarifies the…

Applications · Statistics 2019-05-17 Spencer Wheatley , Annette Hofmann , Didier Sornette

Software estimation is one of the most important activities in the software project. The software effort estimation is required in the early stages of software life cycle. Project Failure is the major problem undergoing nowadays as seen by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Akanksha Baghel , Meemansa Rathod , Pradeep Singh

Outdated software remains a potent and underappreciated menace in 2025's cybersecurity environment, exposing systems to a broad array of threats, including ransomware, data breaches, and operational outages that can have devastating and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Gogulakrishnan Thiyagarajan , Vinay Bist , Prabhudarshi Nayak

Using data from a web-based survey of software developers, the author attempts to determine root causes of "death march" projects and excessive work hours in the software industry in relation to company practices and management. Special…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Jeremy Leipzig

Several surveys and studies have noticed that cost, and quality problems result from mistakes that occurred in the early phases of the projects, for instance: poor definition of the project vision and respective value for the organization;…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Alberto Rodrigues da Silva