The End of the Line: Project Management Challenges in Small Software Shops in Pakistan

Shahid Nadeem Shakir; Jacob Nørbjerg

The End of the Line: Project Management Challenges in Small Software Shops in Pakistan

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Abstract

Most software development companies are very small with only 1-10
employees. In developing countries such companies play an important role both locally and as providers of software and services to customers in other parts of the world. Understanding and improving their project management (PM) practices are, therefore, important not only in the local context, but also in the context of globalized software development. This paper explores actual PM
practices in Pakistani Small Software development Shops (SSDS). We find PM
challenges in addition to challenges reported by software engineering literature, and we have described the implications of those challenges on quality and productivity of Pakistani SSDSs. We also find that some Pakistani SSDS practices are similar to what is reported from SSDSs in other parts of the world, but other practices are related to the companies' position in the global software development chain.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings IRIS36
Editors	Tone Bratteteig, Margunn Aanestad, Espen Skorve
Number of pages	16
Place of Publication	Oslo
Publisher	Department of Informatics. University of Oslo
Publication date	2013
Pages	544-559
Article number	43
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	The 36th Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia. IRIS 2013 - Sanner Hotell, Gran, Norway Duration: 11 Aug 2013 → 14 Aug 2013 Conference number: 36 http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences-and-seminars/iris2013/

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Seminar	The 36th Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia. IRIS 2013
Number	36
Location	Sanner Hotell
Country/Territory	Norway
City	Gran
Period	11/08/2013 → 14/08/2013
Internet address	http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences-and-seminars/iris2013/

Keywords

Project management
PM tools
Small software shops
Freelance portals
PM issues and challenges.

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Shakir, SN & Nørbjerg, J 2013, The End of the Line: Project Management Challenges in Small Software Shops in Pakistan. in T Bratteteig, M Aanestad & E Skorve (eds), Proceedings IRIS36., 43, Department of Informatics. University of Oslo, Oslo, pp. 544-559, The 36th Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia. IRIS 2013, Gran, Norway, 11/08/2013. <http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8791>

The End of the Line: Project Management Challenges in Small Software Shops in Pakistan. / Shakir, Shahid Nadeem; Nørbjerg, Jacob.
Proceedings IRIS36. ed. / Tone Bratteteig; Margunn Aanestad; Espen Skorve. Oslo: Department of Informatics. University of Oslo, 2013. p. 544-559 43.

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