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There are two views about this. The top-down view is that it is a program that acts as an intermediary between a user of a computer and the computer hardware, and makes the computer system convenient to use. It is because of the operating system that users of a computer system don’t have to deal [...]

Software project scheduling is the next task to be performed by the PM. It is important to note once again that in the reasons for project failure, unrealistic deadline and underestimate of effort involved in the project are two of the most important reasons for project failure. Therefore, a good schedule estimate would increase the [...]

Software project planning is an activity carried out by the project manager to estimate and address the following points: Software scope estimation Resources requirements Time requirements Structural decomposition Risk analysis and planning Software scope estimation Software scope describes the data and control to be processed, function, performance, constraints, interfaces, and reliability. Determination of the software [...]

As discussed earlier, a project manager must understand what can go wrong and how to do it right. Reel has defined a 5 step process to improve the chances of success. These are: Start on the right foot: this is accomplished by putting in the required effort to understand the problem, set realistic objectives, build [...]

The Product: In order to develop an estimate and plan for the project, the scope of the problem must be established. This includes context, information objectives, and function and performance requirements. The estimate and plan is then developed by decomposing the problem and establishing a functional partitioning. The Process The next step is to decide [...]

A project manager is tasked to ensure the successful development of a product. Success cannot be attained without understanding the reasons for failure. The main reasons for the failure of software projects are: changing customer requirements ambiguous/incomplete requirements unrealistic deadline an honest underestimate of effort predictable and/or unpredictable risks technical difficulties miscommunication among project staff [...]

Caper Jones a renounced practitioner and researcher in the filed of Software Engineering, had made immense research in software team productivity, software quality, software cost factors and other fields relate to software engineering. He made a company named Software Productivity Research in which they analyzed many projects and published the results in the form of [...]

How to Design and Customize Your Site There are many features such as social bookmarks, modules connecting to mailing lists, calendars, photo albums, and an endless amount of other features that can be added to your Joomla site. They are actually one of the main advantages of having a dynamic site. You can script in [...]

How To Publish Content The Joomla architecture requires that every article belong to a section and a category (unless you make it unspecified). Because of that, before you start creating the sections and categories, you need to think of the names that you might need. Think of a section as being a like a drawer [...]

ETHICAL ISSUES IN RESEARCH Ethics are norms or standards of behavior that guide moral choices about our behavior and our relationships with others. The goal of ethics in research is to ensure that no one is harmed or suffers adverse consequences from research activities. This objective is usually achieved. However, unethical activities are pervasive and [...]