Much attention has been devoted to challenges related to ERP implementation. However, there is a wealth of papers that are focusing on cultural issues related to ERP depending the country they are implemented. The objective of this article is to analyze and to illustrate how project managers achieve ERP implementation whereas users face cultural changes concerning the way new tasks and business...

Immunization is one of the major public health interventions to prevent childhood morbidity and death. The Expanded Programme on Immunization has gathered momentum worldwide since 1974. The range of vaccines in the programme is being expanded in the years to come. All across the globe, a high level of vaccination coverage has been reached and now needs to be sustained. In part, the coverage has...

In this exploratory research study the critical success factors resulting in Information Technology (IT) project performance were assessed. Previous research supported associations between critical success factors and information technology project performance. A survey of 116 different projects at firms in the United States was used as the context to examine the critical success factors in pro...

This chapter describes, as an example of the use of remote access, the development of a computer telecommunications network linking primary health care practitioners throughout both the isolated rural and outback areas of Australia and insular urban general practitioners. This project is called the Primary Health Orientated Computer Users’ System, or PHOCUS. Details of project utilisation and u...

This paper discusses issues in evaluating spoken language dialogue systems in terms of technical performance and end-user acceptance. Recent efforts in this domain have been carried out in the framework of two major research initiatives: the European Esprit long-term project Spoken Language Dialogue Systems and Components Best practice in development and evaluation (DISC) and the US American DA...

In this paper, we propose an agile approach, for the migration of legacy software which combines a user story-based iterative process with automated acceptance testing. The proposed approach, named Storytest-Driven Migration (STDM), requires that acceptance tests are written both on the legacy and target versions of a software system. Because of their relevance, the quality of automated accepta...

Abstract The poor conditions of rivers worldwide make restoration an issue great importance and urgency. acceptance by society is crucial, however, the factors determining such are still poorly understood. In particular, understanding complex interplay between or rejection specific project components overall require further exploration. To address this research gap, we analyze a in Bad Bergzabe...

When changes in requirements occur, their associated tests must be adapted accordingly in order to maintain the quality of the evolving system. In practice, inconsistencies in requirements and acceptance tests—together with poor communication of changes— lead to software quality problems, unintended costs and project delays. We are developing GuideGen, a tool that helps requirements engineers, ...

We have been conducting an XP project for nearly two years. During this time, we have experimented with many tools and techniques for acceptance testing. Here we discuss the relative costs and benefits that we’ve found using a commercial testing tool, manually executed tests, and hand-coded Java tests. We will conclude with a discussion of Avignon, an XML-based extensible scripting language tha...