Transforming Disciplined IT Functions

2021 ◽  
pp. 293-306
Author(s):  
Anna Wiedemann ◽  
Manuel Wiesche ◽  
Heiko Gewald ◽  
Helmut Krcmar
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Function Transformation ◽  
End To End ◽  
Software Services ◽  
Potential Collaboration

In today's fast-changing environment, many organizations are applying the DevOps (Development and Operations) concept to transform their IT functions and establish cross-functional IT teams to deliver software services quickly, reliably, and safely with end-to-end responsibility. The results of an empirical study on which this chapter is based presents platform-oriented, application-oriented, and mobile-oriented DevOps setups, outlining areas of potential collaboration between these DevOps setups and the importance of aligning the aims of development (process agility) and operations (process rigor). Based on the study, six indicators of successful DevOps integration formulated as recommendations for successful IT function transformation were identified.

scholarly journals Psychodynamic predictors of social activity

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-100
Author(s):  
Nataliya V. Usova
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Psychological Adaptation ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

The article presents the results of an empirical study of psychodynamic predictors of social activity of the young generation. The basis of this study is a system-diachronic approach which allowed studying social activity in the development process and identifying mismatches between the requirements of the social environment and the possibilities to meet these requirements on the part of the individual. The findings suggest that the focus of social activity is not determined by individual psychodynamic features, but by their successful combination. The studied personality characteristics are considered by us as predictors of the physical, social and ideal needs of the individual, and the direction of social activity, as a way to satisfy them. It is proved that the direction of social activity depends on the general and private tasks of personal development and is a necessary condition for the socio-psychological adaptation of the individual.

scholarly journals Protecting working welfare recipients through human rights experimentalism

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Elise Dermine ◽  
Anja Eleveld
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Welfare Recipients ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Gender Neutral ◽  
International Human

Abstract In this paper, we adopt an experimentalist approach to determining the content of international human rights for assessing national mandatory work programmes for recipients of social assistance (MWPs). This approach implies going back and forth between law and experience in order to determine the better way to secure human rights in an ever-changing environment. After having identified six criteria for evaluating MWPs in the soft case-law of international bodies, we confront this emerging international human rights framework with an empirical study on MWP practices in the Netherlands. This confrontation reveals that specific aspects of the capability for voice of working welfare recipients are absent in the human rights framework and that the framework is not gender-neutral. Including these aspects, we construct an experimentalist human-rights-based instrument that is suitable for evaluating national MWPs.

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