corporate entrepreneurship is one the key factors for long term success of family firms. therefore, continuing the entrepreneurial behaviors in the following generations of the family firm, which is called transgenerational entrepreneurship, is of paramount importance. among different factors, the successor has a key role in the development of entrepreneurship in the firm. so, the family firm m...

MDP is a workshop about the interrelation of modeldriven development (MDD) and development processes. The workshop provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange experiences on the questions how processes need to adapt or can be adapted when model-driven techniques are applied. We argue that the interrelation between MDD and development processes can be crucial for the success o...

The aim of this article is to provide clinicians and researchers a comprehensive overview of the development and functions of gesture in childhood and in select populations with developmental language impairments. Of significance is the growing body of evidence that gesture enhances, not hinders, language development. In both normal and impaired populations, gesture and language development par...

Time is one of the most important factors dominating agile software development processes in distributed settings. Effective time management helps agile teams to plan and monitor the work to be performed, and create and maintain a fast yet sustainable pace. The Pomodoro Technique is one promising time management technique. Its application and adaptation in Sourcesense Milan Team surfaced variou...

We present a framework that incorporates user-centered design (UCD) philosophy into agile software development through a three-fold integration approach: at the process life-cycle level for the selection and application of appropriate UCD methods and techniques in the right places at the right times; at the iteration level for integrating UCD concepts, roles, and activities during each agile de...

Agile Software Development and the breed of Agile Methodologies (XP, SCRUM, DSDM, etc.) have gained popularity since 2001. Primarily founded as methodologies for software projects executed at a single location, Agile Methodologies have started showing promising results in multi-site projects too with many adopters and practitioners across the globe. Agile Software Development focuses on early d...

System Metaphor is one of the core practices of the software development process known as “Extreme Programming” (XP). Unfortunately, the System Metaphor practice is poorly understood, and is the practice XP teams most commonly choose to ignore. We provide a simple, structural model of system metaphors, based upon Peircean semiotics, giving a fundamental account of the way metaphors can contribu...

Trust is an important aspect of any software development team, but particularly with self-managing teams as team members are very dependent on one another. Agile teams are considered to be self-managing and they employ many different agile practices to function as an agile team. While there have been many studies of trust in software development teams few have examined trust in an agile context...