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System design and development methods need to be contextualized to the specific needs. Most developing countries are characterized by low economies and infrastructure, complex and heterogeneous culture. In these countries software development is characterized by big differences in education and livelihood. Culture has impacts in ICT development and use. Discount usability methods are lightweight methods...
User centered design (UCD) provides principles and activities for improving usability. However, traditional UCD methods lack considering the context of users in low income, culturally diverse settings and where Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development is at its infant stage. Software development in low and medium income countries like Ethiopia is characterized by big difference in...
Agile methods are based on interaction, communication, and the experience and engagement of people. Social aspects of collaboration are in the foreground. All these methods require adaptability — the skill to be able to react on changes. Command-and-control structures usually will be eliminated to a great extent. In traditional environments, often following e.g. PMBOK or PRINCE2 principles command-and-control...
Once, long time ago, there was a very old dinosaur living on the planet Earth. Big yet invisible to most, living in the dark places full of cold, dust and cables; surrounded by several groups of faithful - very specialized software teams, the only ones who truly understood him. But the life on the planet Earth had never been steady and recently spinning faster and faster around, so it happen that...
If you are an Executive in a large organization Scrum / agile helps address a number of issues that you face in releasing products -- improving quality, predictability, engagement of your people, and productivity. You've got help in the form of an Agile Coach and you understand that change is required to get these benefits, not only for the Scrum teams directly affected but also in the way you think...
By late 2004, Scrum had been chosen independently as a development process by several teams at Amazon.com. From then until 2009, Scrum spread to a large portion of the software development teams at Amazon. This widespread adoption occurred in part due to the actions of a single individual and in part due to the natural match between Scrumpsilas characteristics and the culture prevalent at Amazon.com...
This paper describes a journey from 2004 to 2008 when SoftwarePeople in Denmark, together with a partner from Bangladesh, established a subsidiary company more than 7000 km away from Denmark. We hired 20 people in one week in Bangladesh and started to use CMMI processes to integrate development teams between the two locations with the goal of receiving a CMMI level 3 certification in 1.5 years. After...
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