Even more significantly, the major body of software engineering literature addresses a software development methodology which small companies find sub-optimal in their environments. Small groups, especially those developing mass-market and Internet software products rarely work according to the published formal contract models. Although they are intensely interested in best practices, software engineers in small organizations find it difficult to separate the reported methods useful to them from the methods used principally to coordinate multiple large groups. The roles and application of new technology in the small We will also have roundtable of up to 10 software houses and small companies, point-counterpoint debates, short articles related to failure and success stories in software engineering in the small. Please e-mail your contact information and your area of interests to one of the three Special Issue editors.
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