Balanced Scorecard in Serbia: management innovation or rhetoric game

In performance measurement and management literature, the Balanced Scorecard is the most prominent model. It can be considered as effectiveness measurement, efficiency measurement or performance measurement model. The Balanced Scorecard is one of the newest management innovations and it is in focus of contemporary researchers’ attention in management innovation area. The question is if it is something real new in its essence, or just rhetoric came. This paper considers this issue in Serbia, especially.Balanced Scorecard, performance evaluation, accounting data., Financial Economics, Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies, M1,

Improving Communication in Scrum Teams

Communication in teams is an important but difficult issue. In a Scrum development process, we use the Daily Scrum meetings to inform others about important problems, news and events in the project. When persons are absent due to holiday, illness or travel, they miss relevant information because there is no document that protocols the content of these meetings. We present a concept and a Twitter-like tool that improves communication in a Scrum development process. We take advantage out of the observation that many people do not like to create documentation but they do like to share what they did. We used the tool in industrial practice and observed an improvement in communication

Poster: Communication in Open-Source Projects--End of the E-mail Era?

Communication is essential in software engineering. Especially in distributed open-source teams, communication needs to be supported by channels including mailing lists, forums, issue trackers, and chat systems. Yet, we do not have a clear understanding of which communication channels stakeholders in open-source projects use. In this study, we fill the knowledge gap by investigating a statistically representative sample of 400 GitHub projects. We discover the used communication channels by regular expressions on project data. We show that (1) half of the GitHub projects use observable communication channels; (2) GitHub Issues, e-mail addresses, and the modern chat system Gitter are the most common channels; (3) mailing lists are only in place five and have a lower market share than all modern chat systems combined.Comment: 2 pages. To appear as a poster in 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2018) Companion proceeding

GENOTYPE X ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION IN GRAPES RIPENING METABOLIC TRAITS

Objectives of the first part of research program were the effect of some environmental and physiological aspects on the intensity of flavonoid synthesis. The trial was carried out during the 2011 growing season in the commercial vineyard of the Plantaze, Podgorica (Montenegro). Two grapevine cultivars were compared: Vranac and Cabernet Sauvignon. The following experimental treatments were compared: early leaf removal (flowering time), cluster thinning (veraison time) and combination of both treatments. The early defoliation reduced yield per vine in Cabernet Sauvignon and Vranac. In Cabernet Sauvignon defoliation initially delayed berry growth. In cultivar Vranac defoliation did not modify the berry growth and berry weight. In the treatments \u201cdefoliated-thinned\u201d is observed reduction of the cluster weight, berry weight and berry number per cluster. Early defoliation and cluster thinning in both varieties raised the concentration of anthocyanins and proanthocyanidins. The enhanced contents of these compounds per berry in variety Vranac is the result of increased synthesis. The objective of second study was to improve the knowledge of the eco-physiological basis of the genotype x environmental interaction. The experimental plan included the study of the Sangiovese grapes, a variety by a particular responsiveness to changing environmental conditions, and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes, a so called international cultivar characterized by more stable features. It was operated within the framework of Appellations of Origin Bolgheri (Tuscany coast), Montalcino (Tuscany Apennines) and Misano (Romagna coast). The experiment was conducted during two growing seasons (2011-2012) through grape development and ripening from fruit set to ripe stage. Since carotenoids are the precursors to C13-norisoprenoid aroma compounds in wine, relationship between carotenoid and norisoprenoid levels in grapes was investigated. In the first phase of berry ripening, before veraison, sites with greater global solar radiation (Montalcino and Bolgheri) showed positive correlation with the intensity of total carotenoids accumulation. Location Montalcino was also characterized by a greater water stress. Correlation between carotenoids accumulation prior to veraison and accumulation of norisoprenoids were not observed. Sangiovese showed a greater reactivity to the environment compared to Cabernet Sauvignon. The norisoprenoids levels in variety Sangiovese largely varied between different years and sites. The synthesis of norisoprenoids appears to be more related to the specific ecophysiological conditions that occur during maturation, rather than to the carotenoids content at veraison

Axial hypertoroidal moment in a ferroelectric nanotorus: A way to switch local polarization

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