Challenges with Agile in a System Development Department : A Case Study

Master's thesis Industrial Economics and Technology Management IND590 - University of Agder 2019Even though agile approaches are renowned for rapid and efficient adaptionto market changes, decreased time for solving client demands, and morevalue for the customer, they may also introduce unfortunate challenges thatcan hinder the productivity of organizations. It is challenging to implementand use agile approaches in organizations successfully, and while well-knownchallenges are well understood, new ones are emerging. This master thesisaims to uncover the potential challenges with agile in a system developmentdepartment through a qualitative, descriptive case study, where interviewsof key personnel and observations were conducted. Nine challenges withassociated causes and consequences were uncovered, most of them alreadyprevalent in existing theory. The case study did, however, uncover a chal-lenge related to the estimation of maintenance work in upcoming Sprints.This challenge is not covered in the Scrum framework and is therefore sug-gested as a subject for future research.ii

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Improving student attitudes towards STEM education by building self-efficacy through robotics education

The United States must grow its science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) trained workforce in order to fill the jobs projected to be in demand. One of the ways in which this can be done is to tap into the vast population of minorities and women who are underrepresented in the STEM fields. The United States has been looking for ways to improve STEM participation in these groups for many years now, through outreach, legislation and innovative academic programs. The purpose of this research was to examine the impact that a robotics education enrichment program had on elementary, predominantly Latinx students in an inner-city public school in Orange County, California. The study was framed using self-efficacy theory to build approach behaviors towards STEM fields within these students. Student attitudes were measured using the S-STEM survey. In addition, field notes about the students, as well as notes from community of practice meetings amongst the co-sponsors were analyzed to see the impact of the enrichment program on students. The S-STEM survey had no statistical change between pre- and post-treatment survey results. In addition, the subgroups of GATE students, EL students and female students were too small to analyze individually. However, the qualitative data showed some positive outcomes for most students

The Impact of Operating Systems and Environments on Build Results

L’intégration continue (IC) est une pratique d’ingénierie logicielle permettant d’identifier et de corriger les fautes logicielles le plus rapidement possible après l’intégration d’un changement de code dans système de contrôle de versions. L’objectif principal de l’IC est d’informer les développeurs des conséquences des changements effectués dans le code. L’IC s’appuie sur différents systèmes d’exploitation et environnements d’exécution pour vérifier si un système fonctionne toujours après l’intégration des changements. Ainsi, de nombreux "builds" sont créés, alors que seulement quelques-uns révèlent de nouvelles fautes. En d’autres termes, un phénomène d’inflation des builds se produit, où le nombre croissant de builds a un rendement décroissant. Cette inflation rend l’interprétation des résultats des builds difficile, car l’inflation augmente l’importance de certaines fautes, alors qu’elle cache l’importance d’autres. Cette thèse fait progresser notre compréhension de l’impact des systèmes d’exploitation et des environnements d’exécution sur les fautes des builds et le biais potentiel encouru à cause de l’inflation des builds par une étude à grande échelle de 30 millions de builds de l’écosystème CPAN. Nous choisissons CPAN parce que CPAN fournit un riche ensemble de données pour l’analyse automatisée des builds sur des douzaines d’environnements (versions de Perl) et systèmes d’exploitation. Cette thèse rapporte une analyse quantitative et qualitative sur les fautes dans les builds pour classer ces fautes et trouver la raison de leur apparition. Nous observons : (1) l’évolution des fautes des builds au fil du temps et rapportons que plus de builds sont effectués, plus le pourcentage de fautes de builds diminue, (2) différents environnements et systèmes d’exploitation mettent en avant différentes fautes, (3) les résultats des builds doivent être filtrés pour identifier des fautes fiables, et (4) la plupart des fautes des builds sont dus à leur dépendance à l’API. Les chercheurs et les praticiens devraient tenir compte de l’impact de l’inflation des builds lorsqu’ils analysent ou exécutent des builds.----------ABSTRACT: Continuous Integration (CI) is a software engineering practice to identify and correct a defect as soon as possible after a code change has been integrated into the version control system. The main purpose of CI is to give developers a quick feedback of code changes. These changes build on different OSes and runtime environments to check backward compatibility as well as to check if the product still works with the new changes. So, many builds are performed, while only a few of them can identify new failures. In other words, a phenomenon of build inflation can be observed, where the increasing number of builds has diminishing returns in terms of identified failures vs. costs of running the builds. This inflation makes interpreting build results challenging as it increases the importance of some failures, while it hides the importance of others. This thesis advances our understanding of the impact of OSes and runtime environments on build failures and build inflation through a large-scale study of 30 million builds of the CPAN ecosystem. We choose CPAN because CPAN provides a rich data set for the analysis of automated builds on dozens of environments (Perl versions) and operating systems. This thesis performs quantitative and qualitative analysis on build failures to classify these failures and find out the reason of their occurrence. We observe: (1) the evolution of build failures over time and report that while more builds are being performed, the percentage of them identifying a failure drops, (2) different OSes and environments are not equally reliable, (3) the build results of CI must be filtered to identify reliable failing data, (4) and most build failures are due to API dependency. Researchers and practitioners should consider the impact of build inflation when they are analyzing and-or performing builds

The BG News April 15, 1988

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'n Analise van die gebruik van satire in enkele tekste van Marlene van Niekerk

Through the ages satirists have exposed and ridiculed certain malpractices in society in their texts. They have often done so in a language filled with irony and exaggeration. For the purpose of this dissertation I wish to focus on three texts by Marlene van Niekerk, the eminent Afrikaans author, and analyse the way in which she uses satire to comment particularly on contemporary South African society and address issues such as violence, the 2010 World Cup, corruption and violence against women and children. The three texts under discussion are the two lengthy poems, ―Suid Afrika and ―Brief aan president Motlanthe [―Letter to President Motlanthe] and her play Die kortstondige raklewe van Anastacia W [The brief shelf-life of Anastacia W]. She bases her writings on real life incidents and events written about in the newspapers and these clippings serve as intertexts for her critique of society

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Respectus Philologicus, 2010 Nr. 18 (23)

CONTENTS I. PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONSIsabel Íñigo-Mora, Gloria Álvarez-Benito (Spain). Gestures and Words in Political Discourse: a Case Study of the Obama-McCain Encounter... 11Vadim V. Dementyev (Russia). Anecdote in the Era of Censorship: Types of Public Representation (Experience of Diachronic Analysis of Anecdots on the Material of the Magazine Krokodil)... 26Daiva Aliūkaitė (Lithuania). New Dialect: the Possible Scenario of Dialectal Discourse Estimation...41Marek Ruszkowski (Poland). Krylov Law in Polish Linguistic Research...58 II. FACTS AND REFLECTIONSLoreta Ulvydienė (Lithuania). Literature after 9/11: John Updike’s Terrorist...64Fryderyk Listwan (Poland). Comment on Intertextuality: Allusion in Leonid Leonov’s Publicistic Writings... 74Inesa Šeškauskienė (Lithuania). Who Discusses: the Paper or the Author of the Paper? Inanimate Subject + Active Verb in Lithuanian Linguistic Discourse as Compared to English...83Eleonora Lassan (Lithuania). On some Phenomena of Modern Russian Rhetoric in Public Communication (Rhetoric of Nostalgia as a Result of a Dialogue with the Past)...100Maria А. Sivenkova (Belarus). ‘Again, a Stupid Question!’ or How Politicians Criticise the Questions they are Being Asked...111Gayane R. Vlasyan (Russia). Communicative-Pragmatic Peculiarities of Counter-Questions in English Dialogical Discourse...126Jolanta Vitkauskienė (Lithuania). A Way of Analyzing Perlocutionary Speech Acts...135Gabija Bankauskaitė-Sereikienė, Justina Vaitelytė (Lithuania). Cultural Values in the Advertisements of New Romuva (1931–1940)...145Lina Inčiuraitė (Lithuania). Conceptual Metaphors of Sawel in Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies...159Liudmila Arcimavičienė (Lithuania). Cognitive Approach to language teaching. Cultural reality through Metaphor: a Case Study of Birthday Wishes...170Liudmila Garbul (Lithuania). Reflection of Results of Interslavonic Language Contacts in the Russian Chancery Language of the First Half of the 17th Century (Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects)...179Audronė Gedžiūtė, Jadvyga Krūminienė (Lithuania). A Semiotic Attempt at the Reconstruction of Celtic Mythical Models: the Figure of the Horse...191Danguolė Melnikienė (Lithuania). Are Onomatopoeic Interjections Necessary in a Bilingual Dictionary?...202Laura Kamandulytė-Merfeldienė (Lithuania). The Usage of Colour Terms in the Early Childhood...212Nijolė Tuomienė (Lithuania). Southern Aukštaitian Dialect in Belarus: the Result of Language Interplay...223Rima Bacevičiūtė (Lithuania). Features of Žemaitian Dialect of the Lithuanian Language in the Western Aukštaitian Subdialect of Kaunas...235Lidija Kaukėnienė (Lithuania). The Duration of Long Vowels in Standard Latvian...244 III. OPINIONOleg Leschak (Poland). Methodological Character of Scientific Translation (Footnotes of Ferdinande de Saussure’s De l'essence double du langage. Translation into the Polish Language)... 252 IV. OUR TRANSLATIONSBernard Sypniewski (USA). Snake in the Grass. Part I. Translated by Jurga Cibulskienė...265 V. SCIENTIFIC LIFE CHRONICLEBooks reviewsLeonid P. Krysin (Russia). LUCIŃSKI, Kazimierz, 2009. Языковые заимствования и ментальность...273Dagnė Beržaitė (Lithuania). On English Dostoevsky in Lithuanian. MORRIS, R. N., 2009. Švelnus kirvis. MORRIS, R. N., 2009. Kerštingas potroškis...274Viktorija Makarova (Lithuania). On the most Important of all Arts. ARLAUSKAITĖ, Natalija, 2010. Trumpas feministinės kino teorijos žinynas... 278Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty of Humanities: journal of scientific life Giedrė Lankutytė (Lithuania). Advertisement Creators Accept START! Challenge...279In MemoriamУмер Аркадий Бартов... 282Arkady Bartov dies... 283 Announce...284 VI. REQUIREMENTS FOR PUBLICATION...285 VII. OUR AUTHORS...293TURINYS / SPIS TREŚCI I. PROBLEMOS IR SPRENDIMAI / PROBLEMY I ICH ROZWIĄZANIAIsabel Íñigo-Mora, Gloria Álvarez-Benito (Ispanija / Hiszpania). Gestures and Words in Political Discourse: A Case Study of the Obama-McCain Encounter... 11Вадим В. Дементьев (Rusija / Rosja). Анекдот в эпоху цензуры: способы публичной репрезентации (опыт диахронического анализа анекдотов на материале журнала «Крокодил»)...26Daiva Aliūkaitė (Lietuva / Litwa). Naujasis dialektas: galimas tarminio kalbėjimo vertinimo scenarijus... 41Marek Ruszkowski (Lenkija / Polska). Prawo Kryłowa w polskich badaniach językoznawczych... 58 II. FAKTAI IR APMĄSTYMAI / FAKTY I ROZWAŻANIALoreta Ulvydienė (Lietuva / Litwa). Literature after 9/11: John Updike’s Terrorist...64Фридерик Листван (Lenkija / Polska). К вопросу о межтекстовых связях: аллюзия в публицистике Леонида Леонова ... 74Inesa Šeškauskienė (Lietuva / Litwa). Who Discusses: the Paper or the Author of the Paper? Inanimate Subject + Active Verb in Lithuanian Linguistic Discourse as Compared to English... 83Элеонора Лассан (Lietuva / Litwa). О некоторых явлениях современной российской риторики публичной коммуникации (риторика ностальгии как результат диалога с прошлым)...100Мария А. Сивенкова (Baltarusija / Białoruś). «Опять дурацкий вопрос!», или Как политики критикуют задаваемые им вопросы ... 111Гаянэ Р. Власян (Rusija / Rosja). Коммуникативно-прагматические особенности встречного вопроса в английском диалогическом дискурсе... 126Jolanta Vitkauskienė (Lietuva / Litwa). A Way of Analyzing Perlocutionary Speech Acts...135Gabija Bankauskaitė-Sereikienė, Justina Vaitelytė (Lietuva / Litwa). Kultūrinės vertybės „Naujosios Romuvos“ (1931–1940) reklamose... 145Lina Inčiuraitė (Lietuva / Litwa). Conceptual Metaphors of Sawel in Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies... 159Liudmila Arcimavičienė (Lietuva / Litwa). Cognitive Approach to language teaching. Cultural reality through Metaphor: a Case Study of Birthday Wishes...170Людмила Гарбуль (Lietuva / Litwa). Отражение результатов межславянских языковых контактов в русской деловой письменности первой половины ХVII века (синхронный и диахронический аспекты)...179Audronė Gedžiūtė, Jadvyga Krūminienė (Lietuva / Litwa). A Semiotic Attempt at the Reconstruction of Celtic Mythical Models: the Figure of the Horse...191Danguolė Melnikienė (Lietuva / Litwa). Ar ištiktukai reikalingi dvikalbiame žodyne?...202Laura Kamandulytė-Merfeldienė (Lietuva / Litwa). Spalvą žyminčių būdvardžių vartojimas ankstyvojoje vaikystėje... 212Nijolė Tuomienė (Lietuva / Litwa). Pietų aukštaičių šnektos Baltarusijoje: kalbų sąveikos padariniai... 223Rima Bacevičiūtė (Lietuva / Litwa). Lietuvių kalbos žemaičių tarmės ypatybės vakarų aukštaičių kauniškių šnektose... 235Lidija Kaukėnienė (Lietuva / Litwa). Dabartinės latvių bendrinės kalbos ilgųjų balsių trukmė...244 III. NUOMONĖ / OPINIE I POGLĄDYОлег Лещак (Lenkija / Polska). Методологический характер перевода научного текста (заметки на полях перевода работы Ф. де Соссюра “De l’essence double du langage” на польский язык)... 252 IV. MŪSŲ VERTIMAI / NASZE PRZEKŁADYBernard Sypniewski (JAV / USA). Gyvatė žolėje. I dalis. Vertė / Tłum. Jurga Cibulskienė...265 V. MOKSLINIO GYVENIMO KRONIKA / KRONIKA ŻYCIA NAUKOWEGOKnygų recenzijos / Recenzje książekЛеонид П. Крысин (Rusija / Rosja). LUCIŃSKI, Kazimierz, 2009. Языковые заимствования и ментальность...273Dagnė Beržaitė (Lietuva / Litwa). Apie anglišką Dostojevskį lietuviškai. MORRIS, R. N., 2009. Švelnus kirvis. MORRIS, R. N., 2009. Kerštingas potroškis...274Виктория Макарова (Lietuva / Litwa). О важнейшем из искусств. ARLAUSKAITĖ, Natalija, 2010. Trumpas feministinės kino teorijos žinynas... 278VU KHF mokslinio gyvenimo dienoraštis / Z życia naukowego Wydziału Humanistycznego w Kownie Giedrė Lankutytė (Lietuva / Litwa). Reklamų kūrėjai priėmė STARtuok! iššūkį...279Mūsų autorius prisiminus / Pamięci naszych autorówУмер Аркадий Бартов...282Arkady Bartov dies...283 Anonsai / Zapowiedzi...284 VI. REIKALAVIMAI STRAIPSNIAMS / ZASADY OPRACOWYWANIA PUBLIKACJI...285 VII. MŪSŲ AUTORIAI / NASI AUTORZY...29

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