Studying a software process improvement effort over time reveals the factors associated with its success. This case study shows how Motorola's Cellular Infrastructure Group progressed to CMM level 4, and examines what is ...
A postal survey was conducted to determine the following: the extent to which systems development methodologies are used in practice; the rating of their contribution to the development process; and the future trend in ...
Through a number of "participative learning" exercises, it
may be demonstrated that the human brain can be very
predictable in its modus operandii. This is an excellent
attribute when considered as a conditioned response ...
Systems development issues occupy a position of central importance in the information systems field and, indeed, much has been prescribed in the quest for successful systems development. However, given the well-documented ...
Over the past five years increasing attention has been paid to the importance of what Witz and Savage (1992) have described as the gendered nature of organizations. This paper focuses on what they have called the “significance ...
Comprehensive distributed garbage collection in object-oriented distributed systems has mostly been addressed via distributed versions of graph-tracing algorithms, a legacy of centralised garbage collection techniques. Two ...
Dobson, Simon; Nixon, Paddy(Trinity College Dublin, Dept. of Computer Science, 1999)
We are currently witnessing a convergence of several threads of technology and business imperatives. The idea of a virtual enterprise (VE) – a business built from both organizationally and geographically distributed units ...