Effective work practices for software engineering

This paper aims to analyze the relations between attempts to control the commercialization of goods transported and traded by workers in the popular markets of Posadas, Argentina, exploring the gaps between what is standardized and what is carried out by the different agents involved. For this, observations were made in ‘Mercado La Placita del Puente’ and in ‘Mercado Modelo’, as well as interviews with managers and workers. The results demonstrate the existence of tensions among ‘puesteros, ‘paseras’ and the administrative agents, composed of disputes in the maintenance and the development of strategies that enable the necessary and effective work practices, but also flexibility in the law application, which allows the visualization of a space where different agents articulate, exposing negotiations and resistances.

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Auto- and hetero-stereotypes in radiography students: perspectives and comparisons

Journal of Radiotherapy in Practice ◽

10.1017/s1460396920000060 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

D. M. Flinton

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Interprofessional Education ◽

Online Survey ◽

Interpersonal Skills ◽

The Other ◽

Training Period ◽

Work Practices ◽

Effective Work ◽

Negative Stereotype ◽

Team Player

Abstract Introduction: How groups view themselves and each other is very important in order to promote effective work practices. These views can be tribal in nature and lead to stereotyping which may affect how we communicate and act with other groups. This study primarily aims to identify how student radiographers view their own and other radiographic profession. Method: A survey was undertaken using the Student Stereotypes Rating Questionnaire with all radiographic training sites in England. The questionnaire was given to radiography students training as either diagnostic radiographers or therapeutic radiographers. It asked students to rate four professions: doctors, diagnostic radiographers, therapeutic radiographers and nurses on nine characteristics. Results: The online survey was open between February and July 2019 and elicited 233 responses. Overall, the radiography students’ perceptions of their own profession and the other non-radiography professions were generally positive; however, each radiographic profession’s view on the other radiographic professions was less favourable, the scores being significantly lower than for other professions. The professions each identified unique attributes (interpersonal skills, being a team player and independent working) that separated the professions from each other. Differences and similarities in stereotypes appeared not to change with time, although gender differences for certain attributes did exist. Conclusion: Students appear to have preconceived positive stereotype of their own profession and a more negative stereotype of the other radiography profession that appears relatively stable during their training period and was unaffected by interprofessional education.

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THE AWARENESS NETWORK OF MONITORING AND DISPLAYING ACTIONS OF SOCIAL NETWORKS

International Journal of Computer and Communication Technology ◽

10.47893/ijcct.2015.1282 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 95-97

Author(s):

B.DEENA DIVYA NAYOMI ◽

FAROOQ MOHAMMED ◽

V. SANDEEP ◽

TAMKEEN FATIMA

Keyword(s):

Software Engineering ◽

Software Development ◽

Work Practices ◽

Organizational Setting ◽

Software Developers ◽

Social Actors ◽

Development Teams ◽

The Social ◽

Software Development Teams ◽

Ethnographic Data

The concept of awareness plays a pivotal role in research in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. Recently, Software Engineering researchers interested in the collaborative nature of software development have explored the implications of this concept in the design of software development tools. A critical aspect of awareness is the associated coordinative work practices of displaying and monitoring actions. This aspect concerns how colleagues monitor one another’s actions to understand how these actions impact their own work and how they display their actions in such a way that others can easily monitor them while doing their own work. we focus on an additional aspect of awareness: the identification of the social actors who should be monitored and the actors to whom their actions should be displayed. We address this aspect by presenting software developers’ work practices based on ethnographic data from three different software development teams. In addition, we illustrate how these work practices are influenced by different factors, including the organizational setting, the age of the project, and the software architecture. We discuss how our results are relevant for both CSCW and Software Engineering researchers.

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Guest editorial: Studying work practices in Global Software Engineering

Information and Software Technology ◽

10.1016/j.infsof.2011.01.010 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 53 (9) ◽

pp. 949-954 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Gabriela Avram ◽

Volker Wulf

Keyword(s):

Software Engineering ◽

Guest Editorial ◽

Work Practices ◽

Global Software Engineering

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Abstraction: An alternative neurocognitive account of recognition, prediction, and decision making

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19003017 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

Valerie F. Reyna ◽

David A. Broniatowski

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Software Engineering ◽

Systems Engineering ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Extensive Literature ◽

Trace Theory ◽

Fuzzy Trace Theory ◽

Abstract Representations ◽

Technical Systems

Abstract Gilead et al. offer a thoughtful and much-needed treatment of abstraction. However, it fails to build on an extensive literature on abstraction, representational diversity, neurocognition, and psychopathology that provides important constraints and alternative evidence-based conceptions. We draw on conceptions in software engineering, socio-technical systems engineering, and a neurocognitive theory with abstract representations of gist at its core, fuzzy-trace theory.

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