It is well known that software outsourcing projects are more difficult to be managed because of cross organizations participated, especially for those projects with multiple level outsourcing. Although some software vendors passed the certification of CMMI or ISO9000, it is still a big challenge to execute a project in a consistent governance mechanism when the activities happened in different ...

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Researchers from a wide range of management areas agree that conflicts are an important part of organizational life and that their study is important. Yet, interpersonal conflict is a neglected topic in information system development (ISD). Based on definitional properties of interpersonal conflict identified in the management and organizational behavior literatures, this paper presents a model...

The Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry finds itself in an accelerating shift towards the use of more digital fabrication (DFAB) technologies. DFAB promises great advantages AEC, but its adoption is so far lagging there are few examples building projects employing at scale. To facilitate adoption, we need to identify challenges opportunities project context understand impl...

End-users, who are projected to outnumber professional programmers in the next decade, present a unique opportunity to understand how computer science knowledge is acquired in the real world. We conducted an analysis of projects created by end-user programmers to discern their adoption of introductory computing constructs. A variety of project sizes were represented in the data, ranging from fe...

This paper aims to provide a broad view of the Turkana tribe of the Ilemi Triangle in northwestern Kenya, especially regarding the way the members of this nomadic ethnic group understand and shape their own construct of health and disease. It is based in an ethnographic study carried out in July and August 2014, including participant observation of 15 villages of the Turkana tribe, formal inter...

One key to providing intelligent assistance to workstation users is to construct machine-understandable descriptions of the user’s ongoing projects, or activities, (e.g., their committee memberships, writing projects, conference organization activities), and indices describing which emails, meetings, and colleagues relate to which activity. This paper presents a program, ActivityExtractor, whic...

Lessons-learned systems as a technology to capture and disseminate an organization’s know-how have recently been receiving considerable attention. What his means in the case of the World Bank is to capture and transfer the lessons of best and worst practices gained through economic and social development projects in developing countries. But Knowledge that increases the developing countries cap...

Project managers perceive and report project status. Recognizing that their status perceptions might be wrong and that they may not faithfully report what they believe, leads to a natural question – how different is true software project status from reported status? Here, we construct a two-stage model which accounts for project manager errors in perception and bias that might be applied before...

Knowledge spillovers are a central part of knowledge accumulation. The paper focuses on spillovers that occur through the interaction between different researchers or developers that collaborate in different research projects. The paper distinguishes between project spillovers and contributors' spillovers and between direct and indirect spillovers. The paper constructs a unique data set of open...