UMass Boston

Peng Xu, Department Chair, Management Science & Info Sys

Peng Xu

Department:
Management Science & Information Systems
Title:
Department Chair
Location:
McCormack Hall Floor 05

Area of Expertise

System Analysis and Design, Software Project Management, Software process, Business agility

Degrees

PhD, Georgia State University

BE, Tianjin University

Professional Publications & Contributions

  • Xu, P. and Ramesh, B. (forthcoming), “Impact of Knowledge Support on the Performance of Software Process Tailoring”, accepted by Journal of Management Information Systems.
  • Xu, P. and Ramesh, B. (forthcoming), “Managing Challenges in Software Development Using Process Tailoring”, accepted by IT Pro.
  • Mohan, K., Xu, P., Cao, L., and Ramesh, B. (forthcoming), “Integrating traceability and software configuration management”, accepted by Decision Support Systems.
  • Xu, P. and Ramesh, B., “Software Process Tailoring: An Empirical Investigation”, Journal of Management Information Systems, 24, 2 (2007) 293-328.
  • Mohan, K., Xu, P., and Ramesh, B., “Improving the Change Management Process”, Communications of the ACM, 51, 5, 2008, May.
  • Ramesh, B., Cao, L., Mohan, K. and Xu, P., “Can Distributed Software Development be Agile?”, Communications of the ACM, 49, 10, 2006, October.
  • Mohan, K., Xu, P., and Ramesh, B., “Supporting Dynamic Group Decision and Negotiation Processes: A Traceability Augmented Peer-to-peer Network Approach”, Information & Management, 43, 5, 2006, July.
  • Ramesh, B., Jain, R., Nissen, M., and Xu, P., “Managing Context in Business Process Management Systems,” Requirements Engineering, 10, 3, 2005, November.

Additional Information

Courses Taught

Introduction to Information Systems, Internet Programming/Java, System Analysis and Design.

Research Interests

Knowledge Management, Software Project Management, Software process, Business agility.