A Process to Reuse Experiences via Narratives among Software Project Managements

Organizations have lost billions of dollars due to poor software project implementations. Software project management is a complex process requiring extensive planning, effective decision-making, and proper monitoring throughout the course of the project. The knowledge one gains during a project is rarely captured and reused on subsequent projects. In an effort to enable software project managers to repeat prior successes and avoid previous mistakes, this research seeks to improve the reuse of a specific type of knowledge among software project managers, experiences expressed via written narratives. This research proposes that software project managers can improve their management abilities by reusing their own and others’ past experiences using written narratives. This research leverages multiple methodologies – including tool evaluation, grounded theory, design science research, and experimentation – throughout the phases of a design science research framework to create a process to enable software project managers to reuse knowledge gained through experiences on software projects. Guided by the design science research framework, this work leverages both explanation research – to understand the phenomenon of knowledge reuse among software project managers – and design science research – to create a process to facilitate knowledge reuse among software project managers – in an attempt to improve upon the current practices of software project management

Software knowledge management using wikis : a needs and features analysis

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Centering Primary Health Care (PHC) Nurses' experiences in their practice of policy implementation - TB diagnostic policy reform in the Western Cape, South Africa

This project focused on the recent global reforms in TB diagnostic policy and the implementation of Xpert MTB/RIF (GeneXpert) diagnostic technology into the health system, as a case to assess the extent to which software issues - particularly the human qualities of the system – mediates policy implementation. It centres the experiences of frontline workers in local implementation contexts as imperative because of frontline workers’ have discretionary power and influence in their practice. The premise of this mini-dissertation is that researchers and policy makers should centre the lived experiences of service delivery level health workers when implementing policy or programmatic reforms. This may deepen people-centred approaches which is essential for health systems strengthening. This mini-dissertation is structured into three parts: Part A: This is the research protocol that was submitted for ethical review and approval to the Faculty of Health Science Ethical Review Committee (FHSERC). The protocol frames the study objectives and the initial intentions of the research study. The justifications for the research question, theoretical framework, the research design, methods for data collection and analysis and timelines are clearly presented and discussed. Part B: Using GeneXpert policy reform implementation as a pathfinder, this section presents an undertaking of a structured narrative review of the existing literature addressing the major barriers and enablers for health systems implementation reform. This review assesses the extent to which people issues and people-centred practices are considered in policy implementation research of GeneXpert. The aim of this section of the dissertation is to identify and map-out literature considering the human experiences and relationships of frontline health workers and how these may intersect with hardware, contextual and social systemic factors, that may potentially mediate the implementation of GeneXpert TB diagnostic policy. Part C: This section presents the background, methodology, findings and interpretations from the research, as a journal-ready manuscript. This paper seeks to contribute to the policy implementation literature in the field of HPSR from the perspective of centering nurses' lived experience – especially nurses who are overburdened and undervalued – as imperative in the field of inquiry. The main findings reflect that nurses are burdened by the pressure to meet policy targets, the encumbrance to enforce administrative and bureaucratic procedure, and the minimal platforms or pathways to input on challenges and innovations back to higher level management and decision makers. Within the context of top-down, target-driven and highly structured and standardized operational processes for diagnosing TB, nurses navigate multiple overlapping and contradictory modes of being in their interactions with patients as a response to these pressures. This paper seeks to offer voice to nurses’ experiences of implementing TB diagnostic policy in PHC settings in SA considering its relationship with broader systemic and contextual influences. It also raises particular issues about tensions between efforts to achieve efficiency and effectiveness through enforcing the system, and facilitating people-centered and responsive practices in implementation

International Academic Symposium of Social Science 2022

This conference proceedings gathers work and research presented at the International Academic Symposium of Social Science 2022 (IASSC2022) held on July 3, 2022, in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia. The conference was jointly organized by the Faculty of Information Management of Universiti Teknologi MARA Kelantan Branch, Malaysia; University of Malaya, Malaysia; Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jakarta, Indonesia; Universitas Ngudi Waluyo, Indonesia; Camarines Sur Polytechnic Colleges, Philippines; and UCSI University, Malaysia. Featuring experienced keynote speakers from Malaysia, Australia, and England, this proceeding provides an opportunity for researchers, postgraduate students, and industry practitioners to gain knowledge and understanding of advanced topics concerning digital transformations in the perspective of the social sciences and information systems, focusing on issues, challenges, impacts, and theoretical foundations. This conference proceedings will assist in shaping the future of the academy and industry by compiling state-of-the-art works and future trends in the digital transformation of the social sciences and the field of information systems. It is also considered an interactive platform that enables academicians, practitioners and students from various institutions and industries to collaborate

Research Data Management Practices And Impacts on Long-term Data Sustainability: An Institutional Exploration

With the \u27data deluge\u27 leading to an institutionalized research environment for data management, U.S. academic faculty have increasingly faced pressure to deposit research data into open online data repositories, which, in turn, is engendering a new set of practices to adapt formal mandates to local circumstances. When these practices involve reorganizing workflows to align the goals of local and institutional stakeholders, we might call them \u27data articulations.\u27 This dissertation uses interviews to establish a grounded understanding of the data articulations behind deposit in 3 studies: (1) a phenomenological study of genomics faculty data management practices; (2) a grounded theory study developing a theory of data deposit as articulation work in genomics; and (3) a comparative case study of genomics and social science researchers to identify factors associated with the institutionalization of research data management (RDM). The findings of this research offer an in-depth understanding of the data management and deposit practices of academic research faculty, and surfaced institutional factors associated with data deposit. Additionally, the studies led to a theoretical framework of data deposit to open research data repositories. The empirical insights into the impacts of institutionalization of RDM and data deposit on long-term data sustainability update our knowledge of the impacts of increasing guidelines for RDM. The work also contributes to the body of data management literature through the development of the data articulation framework which can be applied and further validated by future work. In terms of practice, the studies offer recommendations for data policymakers, data repositories, and researchers on defining strategies and initiatives to leverage data reuse and employ computational approaches to support data management and deposit

Sustainability in design: now! Challenges and opportunities for design research, education and practice in the XXI century

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The Matter of Future Heritage

In 2018, for the first time, the University of Bologna’s Board of PhD in Architecture and Design Culture assigned second-year PhD students the task of developing and managing an international conference and publishing its works. The organisers of the first edition of this initiative – Giacomo Corda, Pamela Lama, Viviana Lorenzo, Sara Maldina, Lia Marchi, Martina Massari and Giulia Custodi – have chosen to leverage the solid relationship between the Department of Architecture and the Municipality of Bologna to publish a call having to do with the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, in which the Municipality was involved. The theme chosen for the call, The Matter of Future Heritage, set itself the ambitious goal of questioning the future of a field of research – Cultural Heritage (CH) – that is constantly being  redefined. A work that was made particularly complex in Europe by the development of the H2020 programme, where the topic entered, surprisingly, not as a protagonist but rather as an articulation of other subjects that in the vision of the programme seemed evidently more urgent and, one might say, dominant. The resulting tensions have been considerable and with both negative and positive implications, all the more evident if we refer to the issues that are closest to us namely the city and the landscape

ECLAP 2012 Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment

It has been a long history of Information Technology innovations within the Cultural Heritage areas. The Performing arts has also been enforced with a number of new innovations which unveil a range of synergies and possibilities. Most of the technologies and innovations produced for digital libraries, media entertainment and education can be exploited in the field of performing arts, with adaptation and repurposing. Performing arts offer many interesting challenges and opportunities for research and innovations and exploitation of cutting edge research results from interdisciplinary areas. For these reasons, the ECLAP 2012 can be regarded as a continuation of past conferences such as AXMEDIS and WEDELMUSIC (both pressed by IEEE and FUP). ECLAP is an European Commission project to create a social network and media access service for performing arts institutions in Europe, to create the e-library of performing arts, exploiting innovative solutions coming from the ICT

Unmet goals of tracking: within-track heterogeneity of students' expectations for

Educational systems are often characterized by some form(s) of ability grouping, like tracking. Although substantial variation in the implementation of these practices exists, it is always the aim to improve teaching efficiency by creating homogeneous groups of students in terms of capabilities and performances as well as expected pathways. If students’ expected pathways (university, graduate school, or working) are in line with the goals of tracking, one might presume that these expectations are rather homogeneous within tracks and heterogeneous between tracks. In Flanders (the northern region of Belgium), the educational system consists of four tracks. Many students start out in the most prestigious, academic track. If they fail to gain the necessary credentials, they move to the less esteemed technical and vocational tracks. Therefore, the educational system has been called a 'cascade system'. We presume that this cascade system creates homogeneous expectations in the academic track, though heterogeneous expectations in the technical and vocational tracks. We use data from the International Study of City Youth (ISCY), gathered during the 2013-2014 school year from 2354 pupils of the tenth grade across 30 secondary schools in the city of Ghent, Flanders. Preliminary results suggest that the technical and vocational tracks show more heterogeneity in student’s expectations than the academic track. If tracking does not fulfill the desired goals in some tracks, tracking practices should be questioned as tracking occurs along social and ethnic lines, causing social inequality