Rapid Agile Transformation at a Large IT Organization

2016 ◽  
pp. 85-102
Author(s):  
Pan-Wei Ng
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Engineering Approach ◽  
It Organization ◽  
Architecture Simulation ◽  
One Year ◽  
Successful Change

This chapter describes the agile transformation of an IT organization in China with about 4000 people including contractors. In the span of one year, 47 teams and 1700 engineers moved from traditional to agile way of working. There was a 44% reduction in development lead-time, 5% reduction in production defects and 22% reduction in production incidents. This agile transformation occurred at two levels. At the organization level, adoption speed was crucial, as we wanted to reach critical mass in rapid time with limited coaching resources. This was very much an entrepreneur startup problem, where customers in our case are teams and members in the IT organization. At the team level, a practice architecture provided a roadmap for continuous improvement. A theory-based-software-engineering approach facilitated deeper learning. Beyond the usual factors for leading successful change, this transformation exemplified the use of a startup mentality, social networks, practice architecture, simulation, gamification, and more importantly integrating theory and practice.

scholarly journals Mercantile and Religious Mobility between Byzantines, Latins and Muslims, 1200-1500: On the Theory and Practice of Social Networks

2019 ◽  
Vol medieval worlds (Volume 9. 2019) ◽  
pp. 187-217
Author(s):  
Johannes Preiser-Kapeller ◽  
Ekaterini Mitsiou
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Theory And Practice

scholarly journals O CONCEITO DE LÓGICA NOS DISCURSOS POLÍTICOS VEICULADOS NO FACEBOOK: UMA PROPOSTA DE ATIVIDADE NO ENSINO DE FILOSOFIA.

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 370
Author(s):  
Júlio César De Carvalho-Santos ◽  
Felipe Mattei
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Public School ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Social ◽  
Additional Support

With the amount of speeches delivered on social networks that students browse continuously, it is possible to use this mechanism as an additional support for classes. This research, using this possibility, seeks to present a didactic sequence applied to high school students from a public school, whose objective is to examine the concept of logic, present in the speeches of the two main candidates for the presidency of Brazil, in 2018 The proposal is to demonstrate to students how the concepts of logic can be identified in discourses that permeate the social environment and are part of the reality experienced by students. It is hoped that this research can contribute as a reference to an activity of theory and practice, such a relevant discussion in the school scenario.

A Cooperative Parallel Search-Based Software Engineering Approach for Code-Smells Detection

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (9) ◽  
pp. 841-861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wael Kessentini ◽  
Marouane Kessentini ◽  
Houari Sahraoui ◽  
Slim Bechikh ◽  
Ali Ouni
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Parallel Search ◽  
Code Smells ◽  
Search Based Software Engineering ◽  
Engineering Approach ◽  
Cooperative Parallel Search

Learning Processes in Impact Communities

2019 ◽  
pp. 28-44
Author(s):  
Lídia Oliveira ◽  
Ana Luísa Rego Melro
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The World ◽  
Engagement Process ◽  
New Challenges

Engagement processes are facing a lot of challenges since the boom of the IT. This is true when there is a face-to-face engagement process, but also when the ties are mostly virtual. Nowadays, access to social networks, platforms for content posting and sharing (blogs, wikis, etc.), and for collaborative work are changing the way people engage. Those tools have enriched the processes, but also initiated new challenges. Knowledge sharing and transfer are processes that occur when several factors are combined. One of them, and the most important, is the existence of human critical mass capable of thinking the world and finding ways of changing it for the better, in this specific case social entrepreneurship. The authors studied a pilot of an impact community, its path, and the challenges it has faced. They also implemented four interviews to specialists in the areas of networks, social entrepreneurship, and learning.

The Role of HR Strategies in Change

2016 ◽  
pp. 206-228
Author(s):  
Ashish Malik
Keyword(s):  
Change Management ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Future Research ◽  
It Industry ◽  
Hrm Practices ◽  
Successful Case ◽  
Research Propositions ◽  
Successful Change ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter reviews the commonly understood tasks of change and the role an organisation's human resource management (HRM) function plays in designing and implementing effective change management. Highlighting the key HRM practices, this chapter outlines the relationship between various HR strategies for managing change. This chapter develops a framework of key HRM practices that underpin the commonly understood tasks of successful change management. Drawing upon examples of successful case studies and the author's research on the dynamic and changing high-technology information technology (IT) industry in India, this chapter provides examples of linking strategy, HRM practices and change, thus developing a framework and identifying implications for theory and practice. The chapter also identifies several future research propositions linking the HRM and change management literatures.

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