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Be aware of your client's political agendas before you agree to a contract

September 15, 2003 7:00am PDT

A consultant who had accepted an engagement with a well-regarded client quickly found out that he had signed on for a double helping of trouble. See how he handled this no-win situation.

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Change management: Getting your project past the wall of user resistance

June 13, 2003 7:00am PDT

Successful implementations depend on overcoming user resistance. The key is creating acceptance by making sure the stakeholders have the opportunity to choose the change and how it is implemented.

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Software Engineering Ontology for Software Engineering Knowledge Management in Multi-Site Software Development Environment

July 1, 2007 12:00am PDT

The software engineering ontology defines common sharable software engineering knowledge including particular project information. Software engineering ontology typically provides software...

Provided by: Curtin University of Technology

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SPC for Software Reliability: Imperfect Software Debugging Model

May 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

Software reliability process can be monitored efficiently by using Statistical Process Control (SPC). It assists the software development team to identify failures and actions to be taken during...

Provided by: Acharya Nagarjuna University

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Software Process Models and Analysis on Failure of Software Development Projects

February 1, 2011 12:00am PST

The software process model consists of a set of activities undertaken to design, develop and maintain software systems. A variety of software process models have been designed to structure,...

Provided by: International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research

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Some Observations on Open Source Software Development on Software Engineering Perspectives

December 1, 2010 12:00am PST

Several argument has been made that open source software development process some times also referred as Free and Open Source Software Development (FOSSD) violates the traditional software...

Provided by: Rani Durgawati Vishwavidyalya

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Unleashing the Potential Impact of Nonessential Self-contained Software Units and Flexible Precedence Relations upon the Value of Software

December 1, 2011 12:00am PST

This paper evaluates the impact of Nonessential Minimum Marketable Features modules (NMMF) and Nonessential Architectural Elements (NAEs) on software projects; shows that the value-creation path...

Provided by: Academy Publisher

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Linux.conf.au 2012: FreedomBox's privacy

January 18, 2012 4:26pm PST

Open software isn't just a programming- and software-licensing methodology; it's also a political philosophy and a revolutionary movement -- something made clear by Linux projects like FreedomBox.

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Open source needed to save democracy

January 17, 2012 4:53pm PST

Open source software developers face greater risks today than they ever have, to the point where the constraints inherent in proprietary software now represent a risk to democracy.

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Computing Curriculum - Software Engineering: Its Impacts on Professional Software Engineering Education

July 6, 2010 12:00am PDT

The curriculum is built up from 35% of computing essentials, 18% of mathematical and engineering fundamentals and 7%of professional practice. The main software engineering component...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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A Study of When to Release a Software Product from the Perspective of Software Reliability Models

April 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

If a software product with a significant number of defects is released too early to users, the software manufacturer will incur post-release costs of fixing the faults. If a product is released...

Provided by: Academy Publisher

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Identification of Reusable Software Modules in Function Oriented Software Systems Using Neural Network Based Technique

February 10, 2011 12:00am PST

The cost of developing the software from scratch can be saved by identifying and extracting the reusable components from already developed and existing software systems or legacy systems. But the...

Provided by: Punjabi University

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The Truth About Wasteful Spending on Software: How to Stop Giving Your Software Vendors Money for Applications You Don't Use

November 11, 2009 12:00am PST

The dirty little secret of software licensing is one is buying more software than one need from the major software vendors. Why? Because neither they nor one has practices in place to ensure one...

Provided by: Scalable Software

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Lepide Software Asset Management 10.12.01 (Windows)

September 6, 2011 12:00am PDT

If you are looking for the proper solution that could help you maintain the corporate software standards and in addition help you identify the non-standard applications, then you must use Lepide...

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Lepide Software Asset Management 10.12.01 (Windows)

September 6, 2011 12:00am PDT

If you are looking for the proper solution that could help you maintain the corporate software standards and in addition help you identify the non-standard applications, then you must use Lepide...

Provided by: Lepide

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Software Patent And Its Impact On Software Innovation In Japan

August 5, 2009 12:00am PDT

In Japan, the software patent system has been reformed and now software has become a patentable subject matter. In this paper, this pro-patent shift on software is surveyed and its impact on...

Provided by: Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)

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Determination of Software Release Instant of Three-Tier Client Server Software System

November 4, 2010 12:00am PDT

Quality of any software system mainly depends on how much time testing take place, what kind of testing methodologies are used, the complexity of software and the amount of efforts put by software...

Provided by: Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

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Towards Predicting Maintainability for Relational Database-Driven Software Applications: Extended Evidence From Software Practitioners

April 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

The accurate maintainability prediction of relational database-driven software applications can improve the management of projects relating to these applications, thus benefitting software...

Provided by: University of Auckland

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Economics of Software Reuse and Market Positioning for Customized Software Solutions

January 1, 2011 12:00am PST

Most of the software companies can neither be typical software product based company like Microsoft nor afford to develop each customized application for individual customer from clean slate...

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