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Distributed Software Development course is a joint project-based course involving three universities, from Croatia, Sweden and Italy, running each year since 2003. Distributed student teams work on all phases of a complex software engineering project, solving several challenges of working in a global environment, thus obtaining a valuable experience for their future careers. The course is very well...
Information is the most important asset of organizations, currently, the fast, effective and accurate access is vital for strategic decision making and the organizations competitiveness. The education area is not the exception, so this article aims to share the experiences of collaboration between two Universities about learning analitycs and academic analytics tools, to motivate other universities...
Service infrastructures operated by different operators with own policies are being federated to agglomerate various services. To join a federation, an operator must comply with a federation agreement. As a result, it takes time for the operator to check the consistency between own policies and the agreement, and to establish a network connection to federation's infrastructure. To ease these concerns,...
A distributed software product engineering team has to deal with the additional issue of distribution apart from the usual expectations around cost, quality, time to market and innovation. Distribution of work brings in the issues of temporal, geographical and cultural separation. In spite of individually following the prescribed software engineering processes, often the distributed teams fail to...
Building up effective teams over a distance is achallenging but common problem in global softwareengineering. We propose an approach to help build up teamsthrough collaborative online drawing. Our goal is to evaluatehow drawing, as one activity that can facilitate expression ofpersonal affective status, can benefit distributed teams. Preliminary results indicate positive effects of collaborativeonline...
This paper presents results of an analysis of the impact of the human resources changes in Scrum teams. Four Scrum teams were tracked (two developments and two quality assurance) along with their productivity and performance. Analysis showed that human resources changes have a significant impact on the entire team and its behavior. Their effort increased by adding overtime hours. In the same time,...
The DevOps phenomenon is gaining popularity through its ability to support continuous value delivery and ready accommodation of change. However, given the relative immaturity and general confusion about DevOps, a common view of expectations from a DevOps role is lacking. Through investigation of online job advertisements, combined with interviews, we identified key Knowledge Areas, Skills and Capabilities...
Agile, lean processes have become the de-facto way to operate in the domain of software intensive products. Methodologies such as the lean startup are reshaping the way new companies and even well-established enterprises seek new opportunities in their operations. In contrast, in research, little has changed during that time – organizations that fund research still expect a solid, linear research...
Software architecting is about making decisions that have system-wide impact and that shape software product and process alike. While researchers and practitioners have tried to define and scope the role of the architect, social and organizational impacts on the architect and the architecting process are often neglected. The SODA workshop focuses on the social and organizational dimensions in which...
This paper presents a vision of how the Internet of Things will impact the study of software engineering by 2025 and beyond. The following questions guide this inquiry. What will it mean to be able to deploy hundreds of sensors and data collectors running concurrently over months to gather very large and rich datasets of the physical, digital, and social aspects of software engineering organizations...
Software development processes have known important evolutions such as the appearance of the agile methods. They become now the centre of interest of all development teams. Furthermore, BPM is an approach for modelling and automating business processes, favouring their continuous improvement. This paper proposes a new approach for conducting agile software development projects, based on BPM in order...
This research realizes the needs for organizations to increase its readiness towards the implementation of knowledge management. This study specifically analyzes factors related to knowledge management tools utilization within the organization as antecedents towards knowledge management implementation readiness. Data were gathered from 57 respondents whom were employees of a leading software development...
This paper proposes an approach for adopting alternative workforce in an organization. Alternative workforce refers to a pool of workers who work for the organization as contract workers or as crowd workers for a set of specific tasks or duration. Adoption of crowd workers as an alternative workforce is gaining a lot of attention these days. However, it is still not widely adopted by big organizations...
Professional software products and IT systems and services today are developed mostly by globally distributed teams, projects, and companies. Successfully orchestrating Global Software Engineering (GSE) has become the major success factor both for organizations and practitioners. Yet, more than a half of all distributed projects does not achieve the intended objectives and is canceled. This paper...
Agile software development approaches are becoming mainstream as organizations recognize that their delivery methodology has to be nimble and flexible to accommodate new technologies and evolving customer requirements. However, large organizations depend on a global software delivery model wherein software teams are geographically distributed, and such an environment seems unsuited for Agile to succeed...
Reputable Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Development (ICT4D) collections focused on Sub-Saharan Africa exist but a platform where these silos of excellence can be aligned and shared for open access is not a reality yet. An open browser-based ICT4D knowledge repository (ICT4D-KR) is proposed as an initiative towards addressing the problem. Based on literature, a survey on the usefulness...
This paper describes the journey of adapting Agile-Scrum in a project, referred here as Global Configurator Project (GCP), where the project members are distributed across locations in Germany, India, and U. S. Here, we will be discussing about the practices like new taxonomy on scrum roles, scaling scrum with actually using Scrum of scrums and evolving cross-functional multi-skilled and self-managed...
An important area of work in big data software engineering involves the design and development of software frameworks for data-intensive systems that perform large-scale data collection and analysis. We report on our work to design and develop a software framework for analyzing the collaborative editing behavior of OpenStreetMap users when working on the task of crisis mapping. Crisis mapping occurs...
Information systems (IS) that foster collaboration in organizations, such as knowledge management systems (KMS), enterprise social software (ESS), and collaboration systems, have shown the potential to improve employees' work quality and performance. However, leveraging these benefits is highly dependent on the influence of cultural values within the organization. Furthermore, using such systems is...
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