...Master Thesis Software Engineering Thesis no: MSE-2011:64 September 2011 Adaptation of Agile Practices: A Systematic Review and Survey Budsadee Kongyai and Edi Edi School of Computing Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona Sweden This thesis is submitted to the School of Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Software Engineering. The thesis is equivalent to 40 weeks of full time studies. Contact Information: Author(s): Budsadee Kongyai Address: Kungsmarksvägen 43 Karlskrona 371 44, Sweden E-mail: nune.budsadee@gmail.com Edi Edi Address: Kungsmarksvägen 57 Karlskrona 371 44, Sweden E-mail: edi198@gmail.com University advisor(s): Dr. Jürgen Börstler School of Computing EMSE Co-supervisors: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. H. Dieter Rombach (TU Kaiserslautern) Dr. Ove Armbrust (Fraunhofer IESE, Germany) School of Computing Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona Sweden Internet: www.bth.se/com Phone : +46 455 38 50 00 Fax : +46 455 38 50 57 Abstract Context. Due to the uniqueness of software projects there is no single Agile development approach that ideally fits all project contexts. Each software project is unique, whether in its subject area, development team, or project size. Because of this, adapting Agile practices according to project circumstances is a must. There has been a number of literature published discussing Agile practices...
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...research problem 2 Context or background to the research problem 2 Literature survey 3 Research Methods 4 Research Justification 7 Conclusion 7 Bibliography 8 Statement of research problem The purpose of this study is to find out if the adoption of Extreme programming in a learning environment has improved student productivity. It is a software development process used by small teams who have rapidly changing requirements. With regard to students, all students that are studying software development modules are also faced with this problem where by the requirements are continuously changing as they get deeper within their project. This paper is to show if extreme programming is actually helping students become more productive regardless of the ever changing requirements. Context or background to the research problem In this day and age the most widely used form of agile development in software development is extreme programming which was proposed by Kent Beck in 1996. Many parameters contribute to the success of XP. Researchers concluded that using XP in an educational domain has many benefits, where they have seen that less skilled students were able to show more progress than they would have if a traditional methodology were used.(Assassa, Mathkour, & Al Dossari). XP offers a number of practices, values and principles which are advised to be adopted in order to run a software development project(Assassa et al., 2006). These values include communication, simplicity...
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...Appreciative Inquiry as a Team Development Intervention: A Controlled Experiment Gervase R. Bushe Ph.D. Graeme Coetzer MBA Faculty of Business Administration Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6 (604) 291-4104 FAX: (604) 291-4920 email: bushe@sfu.ca An edited version of this paper was published in the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 1995, 31:1, 13-30 Gervase R. Bushe (Ph.D. Case Western Reserve) is Associate Professor, Organization Development in the Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, V5A 1S6. Graeme Coetzer (MBA Simon Fraser University) is a doctoral student in organization development in the Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University. Appreciative Inquiry as a Team Development Intervention: A Controlled Experiment ABSTRACT In a controlled laboratory experiment the effects of a team development intervention based on the theory of appreciative inquiry was compared with task oriented team development and lectures on group processes, outcomes and performance. 96 undergraduate students in two semesters of an introductory organization behaviour course participated in 4 person teams and had 13 weeks to complete a task worth 25% of each member's final grade. One third of teams received an appreciative inquiry intervention, another third received a task oriented team development intervention and the final third received a lecture on group...
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..."facilitator information." No third party should use your login credentials to gain access to the classroom. Where to Go to Class: Your Course Forums Main: This is the main forum for the class and is where you may ask questions between class meetings. It has read-and-write access for everyone. Chat-Room: This is a read-and-write access forum. It is designed as a place to discuss issues not related to the course content. Course-Materials: This is a read-only forum, which means you can read messages here but cannot send any. This is where I will post the course syllabus and materials. Learning-Team-A, B, C, D, E and F: These six Learning Team forums will be used as workrooms for the learning teams. You will be assigned to one of these learning teams. Individual Forum: You will see one forum with your name on it. This is a private forum, shared only by you and me, the facilitator. Your classmates will not have access to this forum. You can also ask questions here. However, if you have general questions about instructions of...
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...Sports, Youth and Character: A Critical Survey Robert K. Fullinwider* Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy University of Maryland * rkf@umd.edu CIRCLE WORKING PAPER 44 FEBRUARY 2006 CIRCLE Working Paper 44: February 2006 Sports, Youth and Character: A Critical Survey TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION....................................... 3 a. methodological limitations..................... 4 b. conceptual and theoretical infelicities...... 5 II. THE LESSONS OF SPORT......................... 5 III. BASICS................................................ 6 a. too much too early?.............................. 8 b. competition’s role understood ............... 11 c. competition, participation, and fun......... 12 d. not enough?........................................ 14 IV. WHAT CAN WE CONCLUDE?.................... 15 V. THE MICROWORLD OF PARTICIPATION...... 17 VI. APPENDIX A......................................... 19 a. Shields and Bredemeier...................... 19 a.1. moral maturity: what are psychologists looking for?............ 22 a.2. game thinking............................. 24 a.3. moral confusion........................... 25 b. Stoll, Lumpkin, Beller, and Hahm.............. 27 It has been recognized for centuries that sport can contribute to education values that make for the development of character and right social relations . . . . [Within this contribution] there are many intertwined and interwoven threads of influences...
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...Needs Analysis Paper Learning Team D - Leonora Gjemnica, Jessica Knight, and Wilhelmina Williams HRM/326 May 4, 2015 Carol Jackett Needs Analysis for Starbucks Starbucks Coffee brand portfolio includes, “Starbucks Coffee, Teavana, Tazo, Evolution Fresh, LaBoulange, Torrefazione Italia Coffee, and Seattle’s Best Coffee in the world” (Starbucks Company Profile, 2015). With so many stores around the globe today, Starbucks has become the foremost roaster and retailer of specialty coffee. “The company has stores that are a neighborhood gathering place for meeting friends and family, which customers enjoy quality service, an inviting atmosphere, and an exceptional beverage. As of December 2014 the company operates 21,878 stores within 68 countries”. This paper will include a discussion concerning Starbucks and the needs analysis. The paper will discuss a needs analysis that will include an organizational analysis, a team analysis, and a task analysis. The second part of the paper will consist identifying training objectives and defining a measuring system that identifies those objectives’ effectiveness. Organizational Analysis As we all know, The Starbucks brand continues to grow day by day and has been around for numerous of years. “Establishing itself in 1971, Starbucks has been a successful corporation in the past decade and is continuing to grow (Starbucks, 2014). Starbucks launches...
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...the difficulties that stifle a creative environment that lends itself to an innovative organization. Further, successfully overcoming challenges associated with a void in creativity consists of implementing a plan that address concerns highlighted by employees in the recent organizational survey. Creating a plan may source at the leadership level but the input sources from the employees because this is the identified area where creativity does not exist in the desired way. Leadership teams must recognize that the survey indicates employees do not feel they have the freedom to provide creative input therefore; leadership team members become part of the problem. Mat and Razak (2011) state, “Identification of success or failure of innovation can be done through implementation phase” (p. 217). As a result, the problem itself lies within the leadership team members rather than the employees of Best Snacks. Based on this analysis of the Best Snacks survey results and the desired results of the organizational direction, the basis of investigation for the problems with creativity begin with the leadership team members. This requires an analysis of development skills of leadership team members and leadership skills. Within those two components, the analysis entails assessment of how these members lead...
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...Conclusion 7 Bibliography 8 Introduction This paper will be discussing the Bob Knowlton case. First will be a discussion about what is going on in the organization. How the organization is run and the possible problems of lack of leadership and poor communication. Secondly, how to address the problems as an organizational development (OD) practitioner. This paper will discuss the different strategies of change and how to adjust them to meet the organization’s needs. The strategies discussed are structural and behavioral and how to change these in order to get the most out of the organization. Discussed are the interventions that would be utilized like employee empowerment, team building, role analysis/negotiation, stress management and third party intervention and how they will affect the organization. Finally, how to determine the success or failure of the proposed intervention. This is determined by utilizing anonymous surveys, and team meeting where they can share their results with other departments. The Organization’s Diagnosis The first area analyzed was how the organization was divided and what their relationship was to each other. Simmons Laboratories is divided up by main project heads who then oversee several projects. Some of these sections have a project head/team leader who oversee, several scientists, lab personnel, mathematicians, and secretaries (Brown, 2011). The team leader reports all finding to the main project head. However...
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...|COURSE TITLE |MGT6013 Leadership & Leadership Development | |BLACKBOARD SITE |Summer 2012 – http://my.ltu.edu and select CRN 5138 | |INSTRUCTOR |David M. Gregorich | | |Adjunct Faculty, College of Management | | |NEW Email address: profdavegregorich@gmail.com response within 24 hours | | |Business phone: 586 445 7458 [M-F; 9:30a.m. – 3:30p.m. & voicemail] | | |Office hours by appointment on campus | | |Wimba meeting sessions are also available by mutual appointments. | |SCHEDULE |May 21, 2012 – July 29, 2012 | | | | | |Refer to http://www.ltu...
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...Marketing Research Paper Denise Guerrero MKT/421 Monday, October 5, 2012 Sheryl Joyner Marketing Research Paper To establish a successful business in a competitive market, a company must have an effective marketing team. The marketing segment of an organization is responsible for development and execution of a strategic business plan for future business opportunities. A constant essential in the appropriate development of a marketing strategy is marketing research. Kudler Fine Foods is an organization successful in the gourmet grocery industry in California however there are some marketing research needs that can enhance the success of the business. To fully understand the needs of Kudler Fine Foods marketing needs, it is essential to understand the importance of marketing research and competitive intelligence analysis in developing Kudler Fine Foods marketing strategy and tactics as well as identifying areas where additional market research is needed that may aid in the development of strategic planning for the organization. Understanding each element is crucial to provide a concise evaluation of the marketing needs for Kudler Fine Foods. Marketing research is the ability to identify customer needs and evaluate a company's success in satisfying those needs (Perreault, Cannon, & McCarthy, 2011). The business study incorporated in marketing research allows companies to build a strategic business plan, implement a new product or service as well as improve...
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...published a paper titled “The role of trust in business collaboration”, one of a several papers produced since 2006 as a part of ongoing research sponsored by Cisco Systems. The paper focused on the need for different levels of trust in different business environments. Although each of those environments was commonly deemed “collaborative”, there was in fact a distinct difference between the level of trust required and the degree of collaboration. More importantly, trust was shown to be a key success factor in collaboration. These findings may seem unsurprising on the surface, but they became far more notable when combined with other results from that research. Particularly, few “collaborations” were seen as completely successful, few people actually trust very highly many of the people with whom they work and the term “collaboration” is most often used today to describe activities that are, in fact, quite mundane. What happens, then, when companies are pursuing complex and ambitious collaborations with lofty aspirations like innovation, margins and returns to shareholders? Furthermore, how do companies collaborate successfully on such ventures in an increasingly global economy and when knowledge is at a premium? The Economist Intelligence Unit and Cisco decided to join forces again to explore the kinds of culture, processes and information technology (IT) required for effective collaborations in 2stcentury business. The Economist Intelligence Unit’s editorial team executed the...
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...IMPROVING QUALITY IN THE MANAGEMENT OF PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS Portfolio presented on 29th October 2004 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (DBA) JOHN PANIL MIEM, PEng (Msia) Bsc. (Hons) Civil Eng. MBA (Tech. Mgmt.) International Graduate School of Management Division of Business and Enterprise University of South Australia DOCTOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION PORTFOLIO/DISSERTATION SUBMISSION SUPERVISOR APPROVAL DECLARATION Candidate Name: John Panil UniSA Candidate ID Number: 00112656C Dear Sir To the best of my knowledge, the portfolio contains all of the candidate's own work completed under my supervision, and is worthy of examination. I have approved for submission the portfolio that is being submitted for examination. 5.001) Signature: Supervi or Professor Si Heng Loke Date Signa re: Supervisor Dr Karlos Knapp Date Supported by: j (\Professor David Richards Chair, IGSM Doctoral Board of Examiners a% Date DECLARATION I hereby declare that this portfolio does not incorporate without acknowledgment any materials previously submitted for a degree or diploma in any university and that to the best of my knowledge, it also does not contain any materials previously published or written by another person, except where due reference is made in the text. Si Date: John anil Can date, Doctor of Business Administration II ACKNOWLEDGMENT ...
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...The System Development Lifecycle Paper Accounting Information Systems XACC/210 June 2, 2013 Melissa Stein The System Development Lifecycle Paper Introduction “A comprehensive IT strategy requires careful systems study and should prioritize the acquisition or development of various information systems, including operating and application systems, such as accounting information systems” (Bagranoff, Simkin, & Norman, 2010, p. 416). Through the system development life cycle, requirements will be identified prior to implementation. Challenges should also be identified as well as possible replacement of existing systems. Requirements Requirements needed for the accounting information system were determined by research and surveys. Federal and state law may also dictate requirements for AIS. Williams, Haka, Bettner, & Carcello (2008) states, “For example, income tax regulations require every business to have an accounting system that can measure the company’s taxable income and explain the nature and source of every item in the company’s income tax return” The study team and steering committee provided the data needed to be stored, manipulated, and retrieved by the system. “The team should try to identify and understand the organization’s goals for the system, perform a systems survey, and prepare one or more reports that describe its findings” (Bagranoff, Simkin, & Norman, 2010, p. 420). System users were questioned about what types of functions they...
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...Leadership Development Options and Approaches This is not a research paper or a sales pitch. It is a discussion document, which may help you with your thought formation on the subject of leadership development. Introduction Developing great leaders is one of the greatest challenges for current leaders. This is not only a component of succession planning, it is a obligation, in the form of passing a legacy from one generation of leaders to the next. When we accept that great leaders are not born, they are developed, we begin to think differently about how we can invest in others to grow leadership capacity. When we accept that leadership capacity drives business outcomes and our customer experience, we begin to think differently about the urgency and priority we must give to expanding leadership capacity. Today. Challenge Extend leadership capacity through a robust and innovative leadership development initiative: • Leadership team understanding. • Leadership commitment. • Connection to key business goals. • Adaptable for today’s fast changing business environment. • Outcome and results driven. Options Leadership development today is a more complex proposition than it has been in times past. The options we will look at in this White Paper are ideas, recommendations and suggestions, rather than turn-key solutions. We will look at options through a four-phase approach. We will also consider that development is hierarchical, meaning, content builds...
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... University of Econonics, Prague, W. Churchill Sq. 4, 130 67 Prague, Czech Republic Abstract The paper deals with Human Resource Organizational Structures in Czech and Slovak organizations, reflecting new trends which are related to HR Business Partner model. HR organizational structure is the framework within a human resources department that divides the decision making functions within HR into specific groups with distinct job functions. HR Business Partner model reflects modern expectations arising from new roles of human resources managers in organizations which include its strategic consequences, change support and also its abilities of HR systems development and improvement of employee engagement. The paper in its first part describes basic principles of new roles of human resource departments in organizations based on HRBP concept and also new competencies required. In the second part the paper presents situation in these aspects in organizations from different sectors of the Czech and Slovak economy (especially secondary and tertiary sector), benefits of the HR department transformation and some conclusions drawn from the analysis of data obtained from qualitative and quantitative survey. It also compares specific situations and documents specific applications of these new trends with more or less developed HR organizational structures. The contribution of the paper can be seen in practical view of theoretical concepts which constitute HR Business Partner model by Dave...
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