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Even the most innovative healthcare technologies provide patient benefits only when adopted by clinicians and/or patients in actual practice. Yet realizing optimal positive impact from a new technology for the widest range of individuals who would benefit remains elusive. In software and new product development, iterative rapid-cycle “agile” methods more rapidly provide value, mitigate failure risks,...
This paper presents research on identifying and implementation of "game jam " model in an organization dedicated to developing software that has different teams of engineers in various disciplines, such as software engineers, electronic and specialists in art and design Game jam has a promising approach in the rapid development of projects or new products. Our goal is to implement the Game...
Today, technology is enabling change in most of our lives. Also, crucial for most of these changes, are software startups whose contributions have led to the creation of a global market, jobs, and some help in fighting the "brain drain" pertaining in most developing countries. However, there is not enough academic literature to guide practitioners on how to leverage the collaborative potentials...
Collaboration between industry and academia in software testing leads to improvement and innovation in industry, and it is the basis for achieving transferable and empirically evaluated results. Thus, the aim of TAIC PART is to forge collaboration between industry and academia on the challenging and exciting problem of real-world software testing. The workshop is promoted by representatives of both...
This paper discusses research and development (R&D) capabilities under a software development setting following the scrum framework. Although the scrum framework provides routines to address technical needs, it lacks routines for proactive behavioral management. A conceptual model was developed to include behavioral routines in the scrum framework. The model links predictability of new or improved...
In this paper, we investigate if a computer-supported collaborative brainstorming environment for programming design can promote students' creativity. We developed a web-based learning environment to foster the competence of innovation, one of the essential competencies required for today's software development. The proposed system includes the modules of creative thinking skills and instructional...
Collaboration between industry and academia in software testing leads to improvement and innovation in industry, and it is the basis for achieving transferable and empirically evaluated results. Thus, the aim of TAIC PART is to forge collaboration between industry and academia on the challenging and exciting problem of real-world software testing. The workshop is promoted by representatives of both...
A Body of Knowledge (BOK) is a term used to represent the complete set of concepts, terms, and activities that make up a professional domain. It encompasses the core teaching skills and research in a field or industry [13]. One of the main concerns of the software industry is to develop the talent of its human resources since the quality and innovation of its products and services depend of a great...
Ideation and innovation can be supported by more or less formalized creativity methods such as brainstorming or morphological analysis. While previous studies have shown increased productivity with computer-supported versions of such methods, their paper-based variants still largely prevail because of non-performance-related factors. We conducted a study with 23 well-motivated and creative participants...
Joint idea generation is vital in software development projects requiring team members with different knowledge specializations to exchange and integrate multiple perspectives into ideas to improve the software product. While joint idea generation is generally difficult to achieve, it is even more challenging in offshore-outsourced settings. Our goal was to understand the process of how software prototypes...
The Fynbos Leaf Optical Recognition Application (FLORA) is a software program to automatically identify fynbos plants using leaf photographs. While it is easier to classify fynbos when they are flowering, most fynbos flower for only short periods therefore FLORA was designed to identify plants by leaves instead of flowers. This paper presents the innovation journey of FLORA, highlighting transitions...
A significant body of research exists about instilling a culture of innovation, but less is written about how to introduce innovation into systems engineering practices. Further, can suppress innovation. Our increasing need to conceive and develop more transformative concepts motivated an initiative to infuse innovation into our systems engineering. In particular, we introduce innovation into concept...
This position paper reflects on recent work that sought to make positive changes to the IEEE Requirements Engineering conference (RE), and on twenty years of requirements engineering (REng) research. We question the values that seem to underpin RE, and offer what we believe are more appropriate values. We argue that these new values would result in better alignment between research and the needs of...
This paper describes the development of a collaborative social platform to support innovation process management. The Drupal based platform accommodates different types of innovation processes (also called waves or idea contests), enhances collaboration and eases management. The main contribution lies on the gathering of context parameters which helps enterprises on the detection of critical success...
The traditional crowdsourcing approach consists in open calls that give the access to a worldwide crowd potentially able to solve particular problems or perform small tasks. However, over the years crowdsourcing platforms have started to select narrower groups of skilled solvers basing on their expertise, in order to ensure quality and effectiveness of the final result. As a consequence, the selection...
Agility as a term is widely known today. However, a common understanding of what agility means and what it consists of is missing. Until today, a lot of frameworks have been developed, but they are very heterogeneous regarding content and structure. This paper approaches that issue by conducting a systematic comparison of 28 available agility frameworks out of the domains of agile manufacturing, agile...
With social software's rapid advancement in the private realm, corporations aim to adopt its technologies and to transfer social software benefits, such as enhanced collaboration and knowledge sharing, to their organizations. However, enterprise social software platforms (ESSPs) often lack substantial attention. While some research into users' motives to adopt social software in the private realm...
This paper describes innovation in visualization of a comprehensive software solution (ChildNet) which assists in effective management and tracking of Vulnerable Children in India. This welfare activity particularly focuses on Children in Distress (CID) and their rehabilitation through various initiatives and collaborations with partners/NGOs across India. The main objectives of the System are to...
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