India to China – Repurposing Learning Software across Cultures

2011 ◽  
pp. 245-262
Author(s):  
Margaret Strong ◽  
Bobby Joy ◽  
Madhukar Pulluru ◽  
Tenya Dong ◽  
Edward Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Software Development Project ◽  
Learning Framework ◽  
Technology Centers ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Learning Software ◽  
India And China

This case study follows an international e-learning software development project between the India and China Technology Centers of the largest independent software company in the world. The case presents many of the major intercultural project challenges that can typically arise in an information technology workplace. This example focuses on the customization and deployment of an e-learning framework supporting online and physical libraries of technical publications. This library forms an integral component of blended e-learning solutions for the technical workforce. The case uses a running narrative, project artifacts, e-mails, and team debriefings. Students will encounter reflective questioning and be given the opportunity to recognize key milestones and strategies that they might consider adopting when working with intercultural, virtual teams in their professional careers.

India to China – Repurposing Learning Software across Cultures

2012 ◽  
pp. 1099-1114
Author(s):  
Margaret Strong ◽  
Bobby Joy ◽  
Madhukar Pulluru ◽  
Tenya Dong ◽  
Edward Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Software Development Project ◽  
Learning Framework ◽  
Technology Centers ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Learning Software ◽  
India And China

This case study follows an international e-learning software development project between the India and China Technology Centers of the largest independent software company in the world. The case presents many of the major intercultural project challenges that can typically arise in an information technology workplace. This example focuses on the customization and deployment of an e-learning framework supporting online and physical libraries of technical publications. This library forms an integral component of blended e-learning solutions for the technical workforce. The case uses a running narrative, project artifacts, e-mails, and team debriefings. Students will encounter reflective questioning and be given the opportunity to recognize key milestones and strategies that they might consider adopting when working with intercultural, virtual teams in their professional careers.

Success Factors for the Management of Global Virtual Teams for Software Development

2012 ◽  
pp. 239-249
Author(s):  
Javier García Guzmán ◽  
Javier Saldaña Ramos ◽  
Antonio Amescua Seco ◽  
Ana Sanz Esteban
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Global Virtual Teams ◽  
Industrial Case Study ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Software Development Project ◽  
Geographical Dispersion

The management of globally distributed software teams is complex because of problems of linguistic differences, geographical dispersion, different time zones, and the cultural diversity of the team members; what is particularly common in software development environments. These problems are amplified when a single software development team is composed of highly skilled individuals working in dispersed geographical locations, and they have to work as a team across distances. This paper describes several of the most important factors that contribute to the correct and effective management of global virtual teams for software development and underlying solutions are addressed to reduce cultural and time barriers. These factors are obtained from an industrial case study, which lasted 36 months, corresponding to a huge software development project that involved several global virtual teams. These success factors consider different perspectives as technology, human factors and process.

From Textual Scenarios to Message Sequence Charts

2010 ◽  
pp. 83-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonid Kof
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Computational Linguistics ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Message Sequence Charts ◽  
Software Development Project ◽  
Requirement Document ◽  
Requirements Documents ◽  
Message Sequence Chart

Requirements engineering, the first phase of any software development project, is the Achilles’ heel of the whole development process, as requirements documents are often inconsistent and incomplete. In industrial requirements documents natural language is the main presentation means. In such documents, the system behavior is specified in the form of use cases and their scenarios, written as a sequence of sentences in natural language. For the authors of requirements documents some facts are so obvious that they forget to mention them. This surely causes problems for the requirements analyst. By the very nature of omissions, they are difficult to detect by document reviews: Facts that are too obvious to be written down at the time of document writing, mostly remain obvious at the time of review. In such a way, omissions stay undetected. This book chapter presents an approach that analyzes textual scenarios with the means of computational linguistics, identifies where actors or whole actions are missing from the text, completes the missing information, and creates a message sequence chart (MSC) including the information missing from the textual scenario. Finally, this MSC is presented to the requirements analyst for validation. The book chapter presents also a case study where scenarios from a requirement document based on industrial specifications were translated to MSCs. The case study shows feasibility of the approach.

scholarly journals ROI Estimation in a Scrum Project: A case study

10.29007/nqq6 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Cortés ◽  
Fulvio Lizano
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Return On Investment ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Development Project ◽  
Financial Metrics

Financial metrics are necessary to inform decisions about the beginning or continuity of a software development project to justify investments. This research discuses initial ROI (Return on Investment) estimates in a software project using Scrum and how to analyze variations in the initial calculations to make return on investment decisions during partial deliveries of the product. The case study included a survey, a review of documentation, two focus group sessions, and an exercise involving application of the proposed technique. Twenty-four professionals participated, of which 4 were Scrum trainers (17%), 4 were officials of the company where the estimation technique was applied (17%), and 16 were project managers of domestic and foreign software development companies (66%), all of whom had experience in project management. This study provides elements to be considered in future research on ROI calculation in projects using Scrum, and can be used as a guide to estimate and review financial metrics during the execution of an actual project.

scholarly journals Translation of Activities in a Global Virtual Teams Software Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Olayele Adelakun ◽  
Tiko Iyamu
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Global Software Development ◽  
Global Virtual Teams ◽  
Software Development Project ◽  
Software Teams ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
Software Development Practices

. This study explores Global Virtual Software Teams’ development practices and try to demystify some of the misconceptions about global software development practices based on findings from the global virtual software teams’ experiment that was carried out at DePaul University from 2011 – 2018. The moments of translation from the perspective of actor-network theory (ANT) was employed in the data analysis, to examine how development approach was selected by the global virtual teams. One of the key findings from our research is that the success of a global software development project does not have a strong dependency on the development approach. While we agree that it is one of the key influencing factors, there are other equally strong factors for global virtual software team’s success.

scholarly journals E-learning sostenibile per la didattica del giapponese Progettare per l’apprendimento autonomo

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Mantelli
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Online Technologies ◽  
Sustainability Strategies ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Learning Software ◽  
New Framework

With the Lisbon 2000 Strategy, the focus of education systems has shifted from contents to competencies and due to the constant update of new technologies, education has to be considered as a lifelong process. In this context, online technologies play an increasingly crucial role. While research on learning software has mainly focused on the contents and digital medium in teaching, this study examines aspects of the digital artifacts that have been rarely investigated but are fundamental to increase the learner’s motivation, including system, interface, navigation, and graphics. Specifically, this work develops a new framework to analyse user experience and sustainability strategies that have been implemented in the case study JaLea. The analysis of primary data, collected with surveys and interviews, allows determining whether these strategies are effective for the creation of e-learning systems that are useful for the learner’s personal study, as well as investigate possible developments for teaching environments.

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