Research Projects

Specific research areas include:

• The software development life cycle and its impact on quality and cost of software development

• Analysis of scale economies in software development and maintenance

• Software cost estimation modeling

• Impact of investment in e-business enabling software on balanced scorecard performance indicators

• Impact of investment in collaborative product commerce software and services on new product development and organizational efficiency

• Estimation and analysis of business value of portfolio of software applications

• Performance impact of alternative strategic analysis and control systems in information-intensive organizations

• Impact of service-level contracts and other performance incentives on software development cost, quality, and life-cycle productivity

• Impact of investment in software modularity and re-use on the software development and enhancement productivity

• Impact of organizational practices on knowledge transfer across software development and maintenance functions