Anti-patterns are harmful phenomena repeatedly occurring, eg, in software development
projects. Though widely recognized and well-known, their descriptions are traditionally not fit …

Despite the high relevance of traceability in software processes, the activities of traceability
creation and management are not always adequately supported in practice. The lack of …

Software development projects leave a large amount of data in repositories of Application
Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools. These data contain detailed histories of their respective …

There is a significant amount of guidance on Project Management (PM) including software
development methodologies, best practices and anti-patterns (APs). There is, however, a …

Gap analysis is a common approach in industry to evaluate the gaps between the
implemented software processes and the requirements of process quality frameworks or …

Software process definition and improvement are frequent strategies followed by software
companies in order to enhance software quality and boost development productivity …

Software development is a complex process that requires disciplined engineering
approaches. Empirical studies show that companies still don't document their development …

By observing Conway's law, which explains how organizing people directly affects the code
they produce, and by taking into account the specifics of different programming paradigms, a …

This paper describes a visualization technique designed to help work with complex
diagrams containing multiple types of nodes and edges, by using a combination of visual …

Abstract Project Management (PM) and Software Process Improvement (SPI) are complex
activities demanding decisions which are not clear-cut even when using a defined process …