Building on ideas from a virtual workshop and additional input from the scientific community, the CISE Directorate at the National Science Foundation established the Information Technology Workforce Program (ITWF) in March 2000 to support a broad set of scientific research studies focused on the under-representation of women and minorities in the information technology workforce. In this paper, we explore various approaches that the funded researchers are taking to address the problem of women in information technology. We begin with a brief history of the ITWF, and then focus on some of the research projects in terms of their goals, approaches, and expected outcomes.
Determining the impact of requirement changes on software development is critical to project management. We present an impact analysis method to evaluate requirement changes for software development projects that is based on requirements traceability. By using attributes of the work products and traces, we create classes of requirement changes prioritized according to the potential impact. We present a case study that shows a favorable comparison between the actual impact and the predicted impact. Finally, we discuss the expansion of the method.
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