Software Project Management for Distributed Computing

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.

Table of Contents

Part I: Characteristics and Estimation of Software Projects for Distributed Computing
Chapter 1: Modeling of Reusability Estimation in Software Design with External Constraints
Chapter 2: Estimation of Costs and Time for the Development of Distributed Software
Chapter 3: Using COSMIC for the Functional Size Measurement of Distributed Applications in Cloud Environments
Chapter 4: Characteristics of Large-Scale Defense Projects and the Dominance of Software and Software Project Management
Chapter 5: Software Project Management as a Service (SPMaaS): Perspectives and Benefits

Part II: Approaches and Frameworks for Software Development and Software Project Management
Chapter 6: Component-Based Hybrid Reference Architecture for Managing Adaptable Embedded Software Development
Chapter 7: 3PR Framework for Software Project Management: People, Process, Product, and Risk
Chapter 8: CrowdSWD: A Novel Framework for Crowdsourcing Software Development Inspired by the Concept of Biological Metaphor
Chapter 9: An Approach to Migrate and Manage Software: Cloud-Based Requirements Management
Chapter 10: A Novel Approach to Modelling Distributed Systems: Using Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems

Part III: Advances in Software Project Management and Distributed Software Development
Chapter 11: Optimizing Software Error Proneness Prediction Using Bird Mating Algorithm
Chapter 12: Improved Agile: A Customized Scrum Process for Project Management in Defense and Security
Chapter 13: Ontology Annotation for Software Engineering Project Management in Multisite Distributed Software Development Environments
Chapter 14: Investigating the Scope for Agile Project Management to Be Adopted by Higher Education Institutions
Chapter 15: Software Project Management for Combined Software and Data Engineering