This paper presents preliminary findings from a grounded theory study of managing changes to packaged software. Our aim is to develop a process theory that describes how developers resolve their main concern of managing a single product vision in a context where that product must suit diverse customer needs. The theory provides an alternate understanding of why traditional requirements engineer...

Thirty-three practitioners, researchers, students, and tool vendors gathered in Dagstuhl, Germany, for five days in April 2016 to discuss the state of managing technical debt in software engineering. Participants reflected on the significant advances that the Managing Technical Debt (MTD) community has made since its inception in 2010; reached a consensus on a definition, called the Dagstuhl 16...

Cash transfer (CT) programmes are increasingly being used as policy instruments to address child poverty and child health outcomes in developing countries. As the largest cash-transfer programme in Africa, the South African Child Support Grant (CSG) provides an important opportunity to further understand how a CT of its kind works in a developing country context. We explored the experiences and...

Correspondência: Max Grinberg • Rua Manoel Antonio Pinto, 04 ap. 21A, Paraisópolis, CEP 05663-020, São Paulo, SP – Brasil E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Artigo recebido em 31/08/12, revisado em 09/11/12, aceito em 09/11/12. Palavras-chave Ética Médica, Doença das Valvas Cardíacas / história, Próteses Valvulares Cardíacas. Recentemente, o artigo 29 do Código de Ética Médica, brasi...

Organizing software work into self-contained, low-context microtasks opens new opportunities for software development, reducing the barriers to contribute to software work and enabling software projects to be more fluid. Achieving this vision requires understanding the role of context in software development and designing new approaches for managing context.

The vision of the Electronic Geophysical Year (eGY) is that we can achieve a major step forward in geoscience capability, knowledge, and usage throughout the world for the benefit of humanity by accelerating the adoption of modern and visionary practices such as virtual observatories for managing and sharing data and information. eGY has found that the biggest challenges to implementing the vis...

In October, 2001, IBM released a manifesto [1] that defined autonomic computing, a new approach to coping with the rapidly growing complexity of integrating, configuring and operating computing systems. This article elaborates further on IBM’s vision of autonomic computing. We speculate about general architectural features that might typify autonomic, or self-managing, systems of the future, an...

The Grid Computing (grid) refers to technologies that allow consumers to obtain computing on demand, analogous in form and utility to electrical grid [1]. Grids and related application technologies are enabling scientists and engineers to build more and more complex applications for managing and processing large data sets, and for executing scientific experiments on distributed heterogeneous re...

In this article, we present an idiographic analysis of a couple's experience of living and coming to terms with age-related macular degeneration. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to explore three joint interviews, conducted over an 18-month period, with a married couple (aged 82 and 77 years) both living with age-related macular degeneration. Three themes are discussed: the dis...

a Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, General Escobedo, Nuevo León, Mexico b Grupo de Investigación Ecobiología Médica, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, General Escobedo, Nuevo León, Mexico c Departamento de Fisiología, Farmacología y Toxicología, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universi...