This article focuses on Maslow’s theory of hierarchy needs, which has been criticized for lacking scientific evidence towards an effective municipal infrastructure management system. To ameliorate this, we contend that 21st-century is not limited to the cardinal direction motivation from bottom top hierarchy, as indicated by Maslow. We also argue needs did take cognizance innovations and situat...

'Capacity building' is the objective of many development programmes and a component of most others. However, satisfactory definitions continue to elude us, and it is widely suspected of being too broad a concept to be useful. Too often it becomes merely a euphemism referring to little more than training. This paper argues that it is more important to address systemic capacity building, identify...

This paper describes the authors’ hypothesis that software development organizations operate at different levels in a hierarchy of needs modeled on the Maslow Hierarchy of needs. The Harris Hierarchy of Software Development Needs has four levels representing operating states of the software development organization: Failure, Fear of Failure, Control and Value. The paper describes how the new mo...

Maslow created a hierarchy of needs for the individual. He placed the needs in a hierarchy such that only after the needs of a layer are satisfied would an individual care about the needs in the next layer. Using Maslow's insight we create a hierarchy of needs for the team. In this paper we map the needs of a software development team to the need layers that Maslow prescribed for the individual...