The first scheduled annual conference of the Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa was held in October 1962. Today is thus truly a special occasion as we celebrate the 40th annual conference an important milestone for our discipline. Reaching the age of 40 is a time to celebrate, but perhaps also a time to reflect on past achievements and to debate how one should approach future ch...

Current software project management techniques rely on collecting metrics to provide the progress feedback necessary to allow control of the project; however, interpretation of this data is di cult. A software implementation progress model is needed to help interpret the collected data. Criteria for an implementation progress model are developed and an implementation progress model is proposed....

The flow of new information into a market changes prices as participants adjust their expectations in light of their new knowledge. This paper links two strands of existing micro-structure research by integrating recent findings on how macroeconomic announcements move markets with well-known theoretical relationships between asset prices and the value of their derivatives. This allows us to dev...

Mum effect is a situation when one or more project stakeholders decide to withhold critical information for particular reasons. In software project where most of the production is intangible, the seriousness of this challenge increases exponentially. There have been reports indicating that mum effect can surface during any phase of development and ultimately lead to disaster in software project...

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This is a documented, expanded version of a paper with a similar title scheduled for publication in the October 2014 issue of ASBMB Today

on the same topic, but it is open also to contributions that were not presented in the workshop. The special issue is scheduled to appear in December 2010.