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A Quantitative Study on Success Factors of Software Project Development in Pakistan

. Salwa Iqbal, Syed Akhter Raza & Sheikh Kashif Raffat


Abstract

Recent literatures and research have been shown that successful software projects are based on many factors. These factors make a project successful or unsuccessful depending upon the nature of the environment where it was built. Efficacious software projects are those who completed on time, within scope and budget, meeting all requirements, management and customer supports and many more. However, different countries have a distinct perspective regarding factors evaluation that leads to a successful project. The research found that there have been limited studies of the Pakistani software environment consequently; this research study was a survey study concentrate on the success factors of Pakistan's software projects using quantitative research analysis approach. 40 software houses were targeted, and data has been collected through questionnaires and interviews from related personnel’s of less experienced and most experienced software houses, in the Karachi, Lahore, Quetta, and Peshawar which has clearly shown the main waves of success aspects of software projects and management. This research also provides a comprehensive look at software projects through the eyes of the Pakistani's software personals as well as the relationship and outcomes of practices with the help of literature study. The importance of this research is to cover both theoretical and practical dimensions of the factor’s association and hypothetical investigations through different statistical methods such as, Chi-Square, regression analysis and One-Way Anova. For these techniques, a statistical software environment is using the R language which is the first time in the research of Pakistani environment.

 

Index Terms- One-Way Anova, Chi-Square, Multiple logistic regression, Pakistan’s software success factors, Software project management

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