BRIDGING UNCERTAINTIES GAPS IN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

Deniss Kumlander

2008

Abstract

The uncertainties is a well known factor affecting the final result of nearly any software project nowadays. Their negative impact is either a misfit between customers’ expectations and released software or extra efforts that software vendors have to invest into the development process. The paper presents some novel approaches to uncertainties handling including an ambassador driven communication, discussion groups and varying length internal cycles with software demonstration meetings.

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Kumlander D. (2008). BRIDGING UNCERTAINTIES GAPS IN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-38-8, pages 240-245. DOI: 10.5220/0001693702400245


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis08,
author={Deniss Kumlander},
title={BRIDGING UNCERTAINTIES GAPS IN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={240-245},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001693702400245},
isbn={978-989-8111-38-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS,
TI - BRIDGING UNCERTAINTIES GAPS IN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
SN - 978-989-8111-38-8
AU - Kumlander D.
PY - 2008
SP - 240
EP - 245
DO - 10.5220/0001693702400245