Standardized Software Development Model For SME Software Houses In Pakistan

• Published in: JISR on Computing
• Main Authors: Asif Mansoori, M. Ejaz Tayab
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology 2014-07-01
• Subjects: Pakistan Software Houses; SDLC
• Online Access: https://jisrc.szabist.edu.pk/ojs/index.php/jisrc/article/view/131

There are many software development models that exist for software development like Extreme Programming, Waterfall, Spiral, Agile, RAD, SCRUM etc. These models are very useful for development but its usefulness varies from company to company in nature of product and services of companies. When we talk about software development in Pakistan then there are no specific or standard model followed by most of the software Development Companies due to which they are facing many problems regarding development and deployment of software and at the end did not succeed to maturity level, as a whole there are lacking in standardization of software model in Pakistan. Subsequently, the customer also suffers and reluctant to avail long-term business. This study focus and cover software development procedure that are followed by small and middle level software houses like how to overcome risk management factor in software development, how to improve software development process. My target is to counter those software houses that work on limited scope software but as all software are important for the industry and for the growth of that software house, they must follow some standards and best practices that are built on their ethics and culture so that they can be known as the software houses that fulfil the maturity level. Since every country has its own ethics and goals so here the study will cover the software houses in Pakistan and proposed a SDLC model that lead them to achieve successful maturity level. Since the study assume the company size to be 30-40 employees as it is suggested to be SME. The major reason of selecting the ratio of 30 – 40 is that the companies from where I have conducted the research are small SME’s and average company size of SME’s are 30 to 40 employees.