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social development undoubtedly requires people participation in different domains. it seems without participation, we cannot achieve a people-centered, inclusive and sustainable social development. in the social development process, all citizens with various ethnic and religious interests are able to affect on all the social phenomena and variables, based on their competencies and mental capaci...

I had a unique opportunity to experience and analyze the adoption of agile practices on two projects at a major car rental company which, although sharing many similarities including staff, professed commitment to agile process, architecture, and programming environment, experienced two drastically different outcomes. The first became bogged down and eventually went to production late, over-bud...

Consumers are attending to computer-mediated communications, newsgroups, chat rooms, email list servers, personal World Wide Web pages, and other online formats to share ideas and obtain information about products. Online communities and virtual communities have emerged as new tools which represent a fascinating pool of collective experience and product know-how. However, the utilization and an...

In this paper we report on a case study of a participatory design process we call Community Driven Development (CDD). Together with a German software company we developed a socio-technical environment to motivate users of an existing online user community to participate in the further development of a product. For the CDD approach developers and users worked together to create a functional desc...