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Requirements Engineering (RE) is an essential component of any software development cycle. Understanding and satisfying stakeholder needs and wants is the difference between the success and failure of a product. However, RE is often perceived as a "soft" skill by our students and is often ignored by students who prioritize the learning of coding, testing, and algorithmic thinking. This view...
How to adequately prepare engineering graduates for careers in industry has long been a concern for academics, policymakers, and employers. However, the realities of engineering practice remain somewhat mysterious to many students and instructors, often leaving engineering graduates underprepared for the workplace, and employers dissatisfied with new employees. In this work, we seek to better understand...
Cooperative education programs (co-ops) are partnerships between industries and universities that allow students to gain real, hands-on experience in their field. The benefits of co-ops have been explored thoroughly in relation to both students and employers, as well as universities seeking to establish more connections with industry. Participants in co-ops often have higher starting salaries and...
The goal of this research is to investigate the process of customer knowledge capturing, specifically knowledge coming from customers. We identified and classified tools and methods of capturing knowledge from customers. Both general tools from knowledge management and specialized ones from marketing research were considered. Besides, we aligned these tools and methods with the contextual factors...
We gained detailed empirical knowledge about rolespecific information needs that have to be satisfied in requirements documents in traditional software development processes. Motivated by the widespread use of agile development and existing challenges in industry regarding agile requirements engineering our current research aims at investigating whether agile teams could also benefit from results...
This paper summarises Ph.D. research study in strategy, project and programme management at SKEMA Business School of France. The research has been construed as an in-depth case study of a fast-growing hotel chain company in Southern China with 36 hotels to scientifically find the positive impact of Confucian cultural values introduced by the company on the hotel chain management and the proactive...
Learning lessons from projects is becoming increasingly critical to organizations and has peaked academics' and practitioners' interests. Although for many reasons in practice, the process of learning today to avoid making the same mistake tomorrow does not necessarily take place throughout the project's lifecycle. This paper is based on research aimed at examining the measurable impact of systematic...
Change-based code review, e.g., in the form of pull requests, is the dominant style of code review in practice. An important option to improve review's efficiency is cognitive support for the reviewer. Nevertheless, review tools present the change parts under review sorted in alphabetical order of file path, thus leaving the effort of understanding the construction, connections, and logic of the changes...
Placements play a very important role in the commencement of a student career. The student should exhibit the right employability skills to get himself the first break into the Industry. Students who have employability or job readiness skills that make them fit into and remain in the work environment is actually a real problem. An attempt has been made to develop a system to make the student's aware...
Keeping the build fast is often stated as an important prerequisite for continuous integration, and is also widely discussed in literature. But which importance does the capacity of the build system actually have in relation to developer behavior? Based on metrics and interview results from a large-scale industry project, we present the factors that according to the developers themselves affect how...
To cope with growing complexity of embedded software, modeling has become popular. The usage of models in embedded software industry and the relevant practices usually vary since the purposes of diagram development and usage differ. Since a large variety of software modeling practices used in embedded software industry, it is important to understand its state-of-the-practice and its usage degree while...
Survey and interview data indicates that companies have abandoned their obsession with elaborate, "validated" business requirements and are adopting emerging technologies rapidly to enable digital transformation.
The objective of this research is to explore the perception of internal auditor in public companies on the use of Generalized Audit Software (GAS) to improve the transparency and accountability of financial report. Qualitative approach was used by conducting face-to-face semi structured interview with internal auditors from Indonesian public companies. This research uses Agency Theory and Technology...
This paper discusses two assignments introduced at the undergraduate and graduate level to connect students with industry. By requiring students to interview an alumni or industry contact about their experience in the workplace, these assignments aim to: 1) provide students with an opportunity to practice networking and professional communication; 2) expose students to the range of career pathways...
The development and implementation of virtual reality applications for rehabilitation often depends on the close collaboration between clinicians, researchers and industry. We developed a low-cost 2D virtual reality-based intervention to improve upper limb movement following a stroke. The aim of the project was to identify whether and to what extent the virtual reality application actually meets the...
This study examines the adoption of a powerful management system known as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) with focus on Jordanian organizations. The study examined the impact of technological, internal, and external factors that influence ERP systems adoption. For this purpose, we have adopted a well known technological-organizational-environmental (TOE) framework. We used semi-structured interviews...
The intention of this paper is to explore the types of groups that academics involve in and their impact towards the entrepreneurialism of individual faculty members in Sri Lanka. Plenty of prior researches were conducted to analyze the academic entrepreneurship phenomenon based on developed countries, but not many studies were in developing countries like Sri Lanka. Primary data were collected through...
The study aimed to probe into the establishment of the product life cycle model of cultural creative product industrialization. It proposed related opinions for the theory based on the analysis of and discussions on documents and data. Moreover, based on the results of case study and in-depth interviews, the study integrated the product life cycle with the industrial and industrialization theory to...
We conducted a qualitative study to investigate the main aspects related to the development and management of applications (or apps) for smart and mobile devices. Is investigation is composed of two main steps and its context is the so ware industry. In the rst step, we interviewed so ware managers with experience in the context of app development and management. Is part of our study can be intended...
Facing high global competition, hi-tech industries use positivity to recruit talent with great innovativeness and creativity to improve industrial competitive capabilities. To satisfy the hi-tech industrial demand for talent, colleges are increasingly implementing the concept of career coaching to establish training programs. Although related literature has indicated that the practice of career coaching...
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