Building high performing teams: Opportunities and challenges of inclusive recruitment practices

Islam; Challenges and Opportunities

Undoubtedly Islamic Revolution of Iran has been the source of Islamic awakening in the middle-east. Therefore Islamic Republic of Iran plays the role of an example and a director of political developments in the region. Islamic awakening in Arab countries has been able to question the dominant discourse of dictators in the middle-east region and topple their regimes. These developments include ...

Attaining High-performing Software Teams with Agile and Lean Practices: An Empirical Case Study

This paper presents an empirical study on how selforganized software teams could attain high performance using agile and lean practices. In particular, the paper qualitatively examines characteristics of high performance and selforganization in one project team. The case under study is a customer-driven student project, carried out to develop an alpha-version prototype. The paper also studies h...

Challenges in Building Very Large Teams

Coordination of large numbers of unmanned aerial vehicles is difficult due to the limited communication bandwidth available to maintain cohesive activity in a dynamic, often hostile and unpredictable environment. We have developed an integrated coordination algorithm based on the movement of tokens around a network of actors. Possession of a token represents exclusive access to the task or reso...

Developing Inclusive Communities: Challenges and Opportunities for Mixed-Income Housing

Over the past decade, housing costs have risen faster than incomes. The need for affordable rental housing has well outpaced the number of available units as well as funding allocations at the federal level. Local regulation and land use policies that increase the cost of subsidized, mixed-income housing construction and preservation have contributed to the affordability problem. To meet the af...

Realizing Inclusive Digital Library Environments: Opportunities and Challenges