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In an increasingly complex technical environment, failure is accepted as a way of maximizing potential, a way of growing up. Experience can be utilized to improve designs, advance product maturity, and at the same time, can increase team's training and education. It is not enough to understand the development tools to ensure a project's success. Understanding how to plan, measure, communicate, interact,...
Software architecture is a key factor to scale up Agile Software Development (ASD) in large software-intensive systems. Currently, software architectures are more often approached through mechanisms that enable to incrementally design and evolve software architectures (aka. agile architecting). Agile architecting should be a light-weight decision-making process, which could be achieved by providing...
An Informative Workspace (IW) consists in the use of the workplace for displaying and using information on agile environments. Some authors have provided guidelines for designing and maintaining IWs, but few are based on more formal studies. This research aims to help understanding how to optimize the use of IWs on agile software development teams. We performed a study using a mixed method research...
This study aims to investigate the perceptions of software professionals in relation with impact of agile practices to accelerate the delivery of software products. Quantitative data obtained from a sample of 109 professionals were collected and analyzed by Pearson correlation and factor analysis. The results of factor analysis showed that the perception of professionals in relation to agile practices...
This minitrack encompasses papers of a quantitative, theoretical or applied nature that focus on: Content Mining of Social Media -- discovery of patterns from the text, images, audio, video and other data generated by Social Media sites Structure Mining of Social Media -- social network analysis of the node and connection (graph) structures underlying Social Media sites
This paper describes the architecture and design of Grid OPTICS(TM), a novel software framework for integrating a collection of software tools developed by PNNL's Future Power Grid Initiative (FPGI) into a coherent, powerful operations and planning tool for the power grid of the future. Grid OPTICS(TM) enables plug-and-play of various analysis, modeling and visualization software tools to improve...
Leading enterprise transformation experts offer diverse perspectives on how Agile methods and Lean Product Management practices can improve organizational systems and outcomes. Agile methods promote iterative product releases and pull risk-reduction earlier in product development. Lean product management methods test market hypotheses and rapidly adapt to discoveries. Applying agile and lean product...
Fast changing business environments often force companies to rethink and renew their established business model. Often though, decisions to make changes to the current business model are made too late, when the current business is already struggling. One way to overcome this challenge is to continuously monitor business processes in operations and to adjust the business model according to changes...
Users tend to ignore advertisements when viewing a web page, however, when searching for a specific product or service, advertisements can be very useful. This exploratory study examines the impact of online advertisements within search results. The findings provide support for the competition for attention theory in that users are looking at advertisements and entries when evaluation SERPs. We also...
This paper continues to test the ASSANA methodology for the computer-assisted analysis of large-scale, unstructured, text-based data in international affairs research. Traditional methodologies for exploring the role of the Secretary of State in projecting "soft power" have focused on reading and analyzing texts to uncover important themes and patterns. However, the increasingly large volume...
Participatory modeling has grown in popularity in recent years with the acknowledgement that stakeholder knowledge is an essential component to informed environmental decision-making. Including stakeholders in model building and analysis allows decision-makers to understand important conceptual components in the environmental systems being managed, builds trust and common understanding between potentially...
Entrepreneurs are typically resource poor when they set out to create their IT innovation. They must seek out and use resources that they do not have to create their innovation. How they do so is at the heart of this study. Successful realisation of such innovations requires collective effort, involving resources and actors both internal and external to the entrepreneur's own venture. The study is...
Community source system development has emerged as a new way of developing enterprise applications, leading to a unique type of open source development involving collaborative investment decisions by multiple institutional partners. The community source network formation has become an interesting issue to study. We use the social entrepreneurship case of the Kuali community source network to examine...
Outsourcing of software development tasks has become a major issue for large software enterprises over the last decades. Nowadays, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) follow this trend and outsource parts of their software development as well. However, most of the existing literature deals with large enterprises whereas the situation of SMEs is being neglected. Especially sourcing decisions...
This paper addresses the problem of variability in software product line (SPL) engineering by first considering different SPL model-based approaches and in particular the tradeoff between the development effort in domain engineering vs. application engineering. The paper then describes a SPL engineering approach, which is both model-based, and pattern-based. This approach bases the SPL software architecture...
Many IT change initiatives involving the development of software fail, and the scale of the failures can be large. We believe that the traditional contract model for software development is generally responsible for these failures. Even if an IT project is resourced internally, the organisation applies similar management practices to the IT project as if it were outsourced to a third party supplier...
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