Dr.Maryam Kausar

Assistant Professor

Department of Software Engineering

Foundation University Islamabad

Dr Maryam Kausar, Assistant Professor at FURC did her Bachelors in Computer Science from NU-FAST Islamabad. She further went to England and did her MSc from University of Manchester and did her PhD from University of Salford. Her area of research is in Distributed Agile as her PhD was on Distributed Agile Patterns for offshore development.

  1. • Prioritization of Agile Requirement Elicitation Techniques Using Fuzzy Logic, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems
  2. Gondal, A., Kausar , M., Mazhar, N., Amjad, M. (2025) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40815-024-01920-y
  3. • Rational Coordination in Cognitive Agents:A Decision Theoretic Approach Using ERMM. IEEE Access (2023)
  4. Mazhar, N., Kausar, M.,(2023) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10232974
  5. • Decision Making of Agile Patterns in Offshore Software Development Outsourcing: A Fuzzy Logic-Based Analysis. Axioms, 12(3), 307.
  6. Kausar, M., Mazhar, N., Ishtiaq, M., & Alabrah, A. (2023). https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1680/12/3/307
  7. • Key Challenges of Requirement Change Management in the context of Global Software Development: Systematic literature review." Pakistan Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences (2022).
  8. Kausar, Maryam, Anas Wali Muhammad, Rabia Jabbar, and Muhammad Ishtiaq
  9. • Distributed Agile Patterns-Using Agile Practices to Solve Offshore Development Issues. IEEE Access (2021).
  10. Maryam Kausar, M. Ishtiaq, and Shariq Hussain. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9656760
  11. • Organizational Factors Impacting Agile Software Development-A Systematic Literature Review. American Academic Scientific Research Journal for Engineering, Technology, and Sciences, 84(1), pp.69-91. 2021
  12. Shehzad, N. and Maryam Kausar https://www.asrjetsjournal.org/index.php/American_Scientific_Journal/article/view/7175

  1. • Using Distributed Agile Patterns for Supporting the Requirements Engineering Process (Requirements Engineering for Service and Cloud Computing Springer, 2017).
  2. Maryam Kausar and Adil Al-Yasiri. https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/using-distributed-agile-patterns-for-supporting-the-requirements/12212082

  1. • Distributed Agile Patterns for Offshore Software Development, 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (JCSSE), IEEE. 2015.
  2. Maryam Kausar and Adil Al-Yasiri, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7219759

  • Software Requirement Engineering
  • Software Design and Architecture
  • Software Re-engineering
  • Software Project Management

  • Agile Software Development
  • Advanced Requirement Engineering
  • Component Based Software Development
  • Empirical Software Engineering

  • Head of OBE Committee

  • Member of Agile.pk
  • Member of OPEN Islamabad