Impact of Project & Team Characteristics Undertaking in Software Development on Small and Medium Organization (SMEs)

  • Mohammad Sadiq
  • Jibran Rasheed Khan
  • Farhan A. Siddiqui
Keywords: Project Management; Team characteristics; Software Process, Software Development; SME; Challenges

Abstract

With the Information technology (IT) advancement, software development leveraging in people
empowerment. It is the most rapidly growing industry in the IT sector around the globe. The ample demand and
need of integrating software to reduce, automate, and accelerate the tasks, turn into increasingly determined in aim
and scaling. Beyond the need, every year world is investing billions of dollars in software development but
unfortunately, the project failure rate is uncontrollable. To cut the cost of project development and minimizing the
failure risk, many organization outsource their project. But statistics showed a large number of projects still failed
due to many reasons. This paper performed a state-of-the-art study and examine every aspect of the project and its
associated factors including software process methodologies and team impact on project success rate. The study
found key team characteristics, project factors, and project management methodologies necessary for the successful
accomplishment of undertaken the project in micro to small-medium size organizations (SMEs).

Published
2020-10-31
How to Cite
Mohammad Sadiq, Jibran Rasheed Khan, & Farhan A. Siddiqui. (2020). Impact of Project & Team Characteristics Undertaking in Software Development on Small and Medium Organization (SMEs). University of Sindh Journal of Information and Communication Technology , 4(3), 115 - 121. Retrieved from https://sujo.usindh.edu.pk/index.php/USJICT/article/view/2875

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