Executive Summary eBusiness and egovernment initiatives have resulted in tremendous economic development, improvements in quality of life, and operational efficiencies around the globe. However, 50-80% of these initiatives fail due to re-invention of the wheel, especially in developing countries and the underserved sectors of the developed countries (e.g., local governments and small to medium ...

Supply chain management is the integration of the activities that procure materials, transform them into intermediate goods and final products, and deliver them to customers [1]. New product development (NPD) processes include design and development along with sourcing through the company’s development chain. In order to remain competitive, supply chains must continuously develop and deliver ne...

Software development is a mentally complicated task. Different software development methodologies and quality assurance methods are used in order to attain high quality, reliable, and bug free software. eXtreme Programming (XP) is a software development discipline in the family of agile methodologies that contributes towards quality improvement using dozen practices. One of the important practi...

Applied research is, by necessity, a distributed, collaborative process. To be useful, research methodologies must not only be applicable in such an environment, but must also be adaptive to the needs of human resources and specific research area requirements. This paper introduces eXtreme Researching (XR), an adaptation of eXtreme Programming (XP) by Ericsson, to support distributed telecommun...

In this paper, we describe a tool supporting agile iteration planning. Our tool focuses on the support of human collaboration, which in turn allows the tool to be an integral resource within the planning process. Such support is enabled by utilizing advanced technologies, and accommodating the different types of planning environments, such as horizontal and vertical surfaces. The aforementioned...

This exploratory study of IT project teams in Sweden and Ireland investigates how three agile practices, namely daily stand-ups, iteration planning and iteration retrospectives, contribute to motivation or demotivation in an agile team. Several studies recognise that motivating staff is critically important for a project manager and have identified factors that motivate IT project staff in part...

Despite recent progress with Decision support systems (DSS) development methodologies, a gap still exist in terms of the ability to assess the maturity of an organization with respect to its DSS development process. A need exist to be able to describe DSS development processes at a meta-level. Equally important is the ability to provide organization with prescriptions to increase the maturity o...

(2014) New product development in an emerging economy: analysing the role of supplier involvement practices by using Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo technique. The research question is whether the positive relationship found between supplier involvement practices and new product development performances in developed economies also holds in emerging economies. The role of supplier involvement ...

We discuss the methodology and lessons learned in the re-engineering and improvement of software process. 1 Revolutional Change It’s widely recognized that process is the key technology to analyze, design and evaluate software development activities at every aspects ple, CMM (Capability Maturity Model i 51. For examis adopted at numbers of organizations around the world [6]. However, we witness...