scholarly journals Enabling Team Autonomy in a Large Public Organization

2020 ◽  
pp. 245-252
Author(s):  
Parastoo Mohagheghi ◽  
Casper Lassenius ◽  
Ingrid Omang Bakken
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Public Organization ◽  
Software Development Process ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Domain Experts ◽  
Financing Model ◽  
User Friendly

Abstract This paper describes how autonomy emerged in a team in a large public organization and which factors were important in this process. The organization has back sourced software development and abandoned a stage-based software development process with many handovers between business, IT and vendors. We collected data in four semi-structured interviews and analyzed information on changes in the structure and responsibilities of the team. The team has refined its portfolio for better cohesion, stepwise taken over the responsibility for software development from the vendor and in parallel recruited software developers, UX designers and testers. Product owners have joined the team as well. Supported by changes to the financing model, the team has transformed from mediating between business and vendors to a cross-functional product team with autonomy over its budget, backlog and software development process. As a result, the team can better balance between delivering new features and quality improvements, continuously deliver software with less overhead and focus on its mission to deliver user-friendly services with increased involvement of domain experts. Defining a clear product boundary and reducing dependencies on other teams, developing necessary skills and changing the financing model are recognized as the main success factors, as well as the main challenges in the transition process.

scholarly journals The importance of human-computer interaction in the development process of software projects

2015 ◽  
pp. 48 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Hanefi Calp ◽  
M. Ali Akcayol
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Design Methods ◽  
Software Development Process ◽  
Software Life Cycle ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Computer Interaction

<p>Today, software industry has a rapid growth. In order to resist the competition increased by this growth, software projects ne0ed to be developed with higher quality and especially user friendly. Therefore, the importance of human-computer interaction emerges clearly. In design and development phases of software projects, the properties of human –which is an important agent for interaction- such as behavioral, cognitive, perceptive, efficiency and physical factors have to be considered. This study aims to express the importance of developing softwares by taking into consideration the human-computer interaction applications. In this context, firstly a wide literature review is made to examine software development process and human-computer interaction in detail, the results obtained by using design methods in this process are explicated and the importance of said interaction is openly expressed with the exemplary applications in the literature. According to the results of the research, especially in software life cycle, it is observed that rules of interaction must be implemented before software development, however, these methods are usually included in software life cycle in the latter stages of software development process. This situation causes the developed softwares to be user unfriendly and of low quality. Furthermore, it is observed that when the design methods used in the scope of human-computer interaction are integrated into software development process during the life cycle, the developed projects are more successful, have better quality and are more user friendly.</p><p> Keywords: Human-computer interaction, software projects, life cycle, software design.</p>

scholarly journals A Guideline Tool for Ongoing Product Evaluation in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 3632
Author(s):  
Fouad Abdulameer Salman ◽  
Aziz Bin Deraman ◽  
Masita Binti Abdul Jalil
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Product Evaluation ◽  
Usability Evaluation ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Software Development Process ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
Develop Software ◽  
Software Development Teams ◽  
User Friendly

As consumer demand for user friendly software increases, usability evaluation is crucial to develop software systems which are easy to learn and use. However, implementation of usability evaluation is challenging for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) due to factors such as lack of technical expertise, knowledge and experience of methods and standards. This results in neglect, or poorly executed evaluations of projects, resulting in software that disappoints and frustrates clients. To overcome this loss of competitiveness, we propose here a visual incorporation tool derived from ISO standards that would assist software development teams in SMEs in understanding and implementing usability evaluations. It shows fundamental Usability Engineering (UE) and Software Engineering (SE) activities and artifacts relevant to the usability evaluation and software development process, with potential incorporation points being highlighted. Dependencies and relationships are shown by links between activities and artifacts. Additionally, convergent artifacts of both disciplines were identified and shown. Evaluation of the proposed tool was based on the questionnaire results of software development practitioners from SMEs.

scholarly journals Agile software development project evaluation using the partial least squares–structural equation modelling (PLS–SEM) approach in view of critical success indicators

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 99-115
Author(s):  
Senay Demirel ◽  
Harun Caliskan ◽  
Dilek Karahoca ◽  
Adem Karahoca
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Least Squares ◽  
Partial Least Squares ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Agile Software Development ◽  
Software Development Process ◽  
Success Indicators ◽  
Agile Software

In this study, the Agile software development process is analysed by means of success and failure criteria, and their effects are determined using the partial least squares – structural equation modelling methodology. The study identifies criticial success factors in Agile software development methodology and specifically focuses on indicators to conclude their significance of relationship and impact, so that the possible results are determined, predicted and exterminated in advance.The literature search determined the success indicators of agile projects in a mul ti-dimensional view of factors. Each factor was classified into sub-factors and indicators which helped to obtain a multi-dimensional view of the factors that made them more viable. The answers of the participants were mapped to the detailed criteria and a pplied to the model developed. The results which showed the effects of each sub-criteria mapped to one of the main criteria of the Agile software development process were determined and evaluated.Keywords: Critical success factors, success criteria, agile software development process, partial least squares – structuralequation modeling, success indicator, failure indicator.

scholarly journals Are UX Evaluation Methods Providing the Same Big Picture?

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 3480
Author(s):  
Walter Takashi Nakamura ◽  
Iftekhar Ahmed ◽  
David Redmiles ◽  
Edson Oliveira ◽  
David Fernandes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Decision Process ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Evaluation Methods ◽  
Sentence Completion ◽  
Software Development Process ◽  
Software Application ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
The Impact

The success of a software application is related to users’ willingness to keep using it. In this sense, evaluating User eXperience (UX) became an important part of the software development process. Researchers have been carrying out studies by employing various methods to evaluate the UX of software products. Some studies reported varied and even contradictory results when applying different UX evaluation methods, making it difficult for practitioners to identify which results to rely upon. However, these works did not evaluate the developers’ perspectives and their impacts on the decision process. Moreover, such studies focused on one-shot evaluations, which cannot assess whether the methods provide the same big picture of the experience (i.e., deteriorating, improving, or stable). This paper presents a longitudinal study in which 68 students evaluated the UX of an online judge system by employing AttrakDiff, UEQ, and Sentence Completion methods at three moments along a semester. This study reveals contrasting results between the methods, which affected developers’ decisions and interpretations. With this work, we intend to draw the HCI community’s attention to the contrast between different UX evaluation methods and the impact of their outcomes in the software development process.

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