Making Globally Distributed Software Development a Success Story

Invited Talk.- Benefits of Global Software Development: The Known and Unknown.- Method Engineering: Towards Methods as Services.- Process Management.- Macro-processes Informing Micro-processes: The Case of Software Project Performance.- Improving Software Risk Management Practices in a Medical Device Company.- Framework to Evaluate Software Process Improvement in Small Organizations.- On Deriving Actions for Improving Cost Overrun by Applying Association Rule Mining to Industrial Project Repository.- Software Multi-project Resource Scheduling: A Comparative Analysis.- Project Assets Ontology (PAO) to Support Gap Analysis for Organization Process Improvement Based on CMMI v.1.2.- Process Content.- Towards Individualized Requirements Specification Evolution for Networked Software Based on Aspect.- Requirement-Centric Traceability for Change Impact Analysis: A Case Study.- Scaling Up Software Architecture Evaluation Processes.- Process Tools and Metrics.- Software Project Similarity Measurement Based on Fuzzy C-Means.- An Empirically-Based Process to Improve the Practice of Requirement Review.- Capability Assessment of Individual Software Development Processes Using Software Repositories and DEA.- Process Representation, Analysis and Modeling.- Scoping Software Process Models - Initial Concepts and Experience from Defining Space Standards.- Detection of Consistent Patterns from Process Enactment Data.- A Deviation Management System for Handling Software Process Enactment Evolution.- Assessing Quality Processes with ODC COQUALMO.- Accurate Estimates without Calibration?.- Investigating Factors Affecting the Usability of Software Process Descriptions.- Degree of Agility in Pre-Implementation Process Phases.- Support IT Service Management with Process Modeling and Analysis.- The Secret Life of a Process Description: A Look into the Evolution of a Large Process Model.- Simulation Modeling.- Simulating Worst Case Scenarios and Analyzing Their Combined Effect in Operational

Qing Wang is Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. His research programs are centered on using chemical and material engineering approaches towards the development of novel functional polymers and polymer nanocomposites with unique electronic, photonic and transport properties.