Estimating the costs of software development is one of the most important activities in software project management. Inaccuracies in such estimates may cause irreparable loss. A low estimate of the cost of projects will result in failure on delivery on time and indicates the inefficiency of the software development team. On the other hand, high estimates of resources and costs for a project wil...

Our purpose in this article is to combine three previously published papers in order to apply a general Methodological frame to a specific problem. Because system design is a special case of problem solving, we will try to apply A Generalized Group Decision Support System (GDSS) for Group Problem Solving: (Callaos, et.al. 1999; Callaos and Lesso, 1999) to the specific area of System Design. Thi...

Training and adaption of employees are time and money consuming. Employees’ turnover can be predicted by their organizational and personal historical data in order to reduce probable loss of organizations. Prediction methods are highly related to human resource management to obtain patterns by historical data. This article implements knowledge discovery steps on real data of a manufacturing pla...

In previous work, we showed that the critical engagement with a decision support system during its implementation by a project team is an important antecedent for the successful later use of the technology. However, the mechanisms that trigger such critical engagement are so far not well understood. Drawing on Heidegger’s modes of Being-in-the-world this paper provides a theoretical frame to un...

LPMP West Sumatra is a company in the technical implementation department of Ministry Education and led by leadership responsible to Director General for Improving Quality Educators Personnel (PMPTK). The selection process hiring contract employees has difficulties because system still manual where all processes from initial stage registration final are done manually so it takes quite long time...

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