Pervasive mobile healthcare system has the potential to improve healthcare and the quality of life of chronic disease patients through continuous monitoring. Recently, many articles related to pervasive mobile healthcare system focusing on health monitoring using wireless technologies have been published. The main aim of this review is to evaluate the state-of-the-art pervasive mobile healthcare systems to identify major technical requirements and design challenges associated with the realization of a pervasive mobile healthcare system. A systematic literature review was conducted over IEEE Xplore Digital Library to evaluate 20 pervasive mobile healthcare systems out of 683 articles from 2011 to 2016. The classification of the pervasive mobile healthcare systems and other important factors are discussed. Potential opportunities and challenges are pointed out for the further deployment of effective pervasive mobile healthcare systems. This article helps researchers in health informatics to have a holistic view toward understanding pervasive mobile healthcare systems and points out new technological trends and design challenges that researchers have to consider when designing such systems for better adoption, usability, and seamless integration.

Rework is a known vicious circle in software development since it plays a central role in the generation of delays, extra costs and diverse risks introduced after software delivery. It eventually triggers a negative impact on the quality of the software developed. In order to cater the rework issue, this paper goes in depth with the notion of rework in software development as it occurs in practice by analysing a development process on an organisation in Mauritius where rework is a major issue. Meticulous strategies to reduce rework are then analysed and discussed. The paper ultimately leads to the recommendation of the best strategy that is software configuration management to reduce the rework problem in software development.

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Software inspection is a proven methodology that enables the detection and removal of defects in software artifacts and thus contributes towards software quality assurance. It eventually leads to significant budget and time benefits. To be most effective, inspections must be an integral part of the software development life cycle and form part of the development schedule. This study considers code inspection as it is the most frequently used inspection in the software development process. For the implementation part of this research, code inspection is carried out in a selected outsourced project in a company situated in Mauritius, and the results are evaluated based on the inspection process and feedback of people involved in the inspection process. General TermsSoftware Code Inspection.

Agile-driven human resource approaches are a departure from plan-driven traditional human resource management approaches. Moreover, research and surveys have shown that adopting agile human resource methodologies are an efficient way of excelling in agile software project management with significant advantages in production costs, time-to-market, complexity, and quality improvement over traditional human resource management methodologies. This paper reviews how effective human resource management techniques that can be applied to agile software project management core challenges. Drawing information from the literature issues like framework for agile organizational change and adoption strategies are examined. Data gathered from the organizations suggest that most of them are best suited in adopting new human resource management techniques. In a nutshell, human resource agility drives organizations to sustain a promising paradigm based on lessons learned towards going agile in software project management.

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