This unique volume explores cutting-edge management approaches to
developing complex software that is efficient, scalable, sustainable,
and suitable for distributed environments. Practical insights are
offered by an international selection of pre-eminent authorities,
including case studies, best practices, and balanced corporate analyses.
Emphasis is placed on the use of the latest software technologies and
frameworks for life-cycle methods, including the design, implementation
and testing stages of software development.
Topics and features:
- Reviews approaches for reusability, cost and time estimation, and for
functional size measurement of distributed software applications
- Discusses the core characteristics of a large-scale defense system,
and the design of software project management (SPM) as a service
- Introduces the 3PR framework, research on crowdsourcing software
development, and an innovative approach to modeling large-scale
multi-agent software systems
- Examines a system architecture for ambient assisted living, and an
approach to cloud migration and management assessment
- Describes a software error proneness mechanism, a novel Scrum process
for use in the defense domain, and an ontology annotation for SPM in
distributed environments
- Investigates the benefits of agile project management for higher
education institutions, and SPM that combines software and data
engineering
This important text/reference is essential reading for project managers
and software engineers involved in developing software for distributed
computing environments. Students and researchers interested in SPM
technologies and frameworks will also find the work to be an invaluable
resource.
Prof. Zaigham Mahmood is a Senior Technology Consultant at Debesis
Education UK and an Associate Lecturer (Research) at the University of
Derby, UK. He also holds positions as Foreign Professor at NUST and IIU
in Islamabad, Pakistan, and Professor Extraordinaire at the North West
University Potchefstroom, South Africa.
