The adoption of Software Engineering practices in a Scrum environment

The competition in the software market demands that the time required for any software product to reach the market be reduced if the product is to survive competition from other developers. The pursuit of this goal has led to the adoption of agile software development methodologies. While other agile methodologies provide guidelines as to the software engineering (SE) practices to be used during the development lifecycle, Scrum does not. The purpose of this study is twofold: first, to identify the usage and level of importance of software engineering practices in the Scrum development environment; and second, to investigate how Scrum teams adopt an appropriate set of SE techniques and whether a hybrid Scrum/Extreme Programming (XP) methodology is an appropriate approach to take. This research was conducted by examining sample data from five organizations using the Scrum methodology. The sample included a range of industries including communications and embedded systems, financial asset management, software development houses and consulting firms in South Africa. The study employed a mixed method approach. A key finding was that, regardless of the fact that Scrum does not explicitly recommend engineering practices, there was extensive use of these practices by all of the participating organizations. The study also found that the lack of software engineering practices in Scrum does not constitute a barrier to a successful adoption of Scrum, provided the 'inspect and adapt' principle inherent in Scrum is properly followed. The study discusses the findings, explains the implications and suggests future research.Peer reviewe

Factors influencing the establishment of technology innovation hubs - a structured literature review

The research context focuses on the establishment of innovation hubs within specific geographical locations, aiming to drive innovation and economic development. The research scope encompassed a thorough examination of existing literature to uncover the diverse range of factors influencing AI hub creation and success. Our research was prompted by the need to address the lack of a comprehensive understanding of these factors. With the aim of examining, we adopted the Structured Literature Review (SLR) methodology. Through our comprehensive analysis, we identified a multitude of critical factors. Based on the number of sources in which they were reported, the factors are listed in descending order of popularity: Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Training Facilitation, Collaboration, Availability of funding, Research, Talent, Infrastructure, Community, Environment, Business Incubator Service, Market, Job Opportunities, Culture, Monitoring and Evaluation, Clustering, Transportation, Policy, Impact, Shared Aspiration, Economic Changes, Reward and Banking

Tech, transport, sustainability: the undefined prospects of Lagos Ride

The Lagos State Government of Nigeria signed a partnership agreement with CIG Motors Company Limited to revamp road transportation in the state. The agreement heralded a new e-hailing taxi scheme known as 'Lagos Ride,' which kicks off with a pilot fleet of 1,000 cars While this initiative is commendable, it is imperative to reflect on this project and explore its prospects and challenges amidst the growing clamour for a more sustainable mode of transportation and decarbonising transportation. This report acknowledged that a crucial decision had been taken, which indicates the cars were bought and seen in convoy on Lagos's streets. The question remains what stakeholders can learn from this initiative and possibly if there are things that the government can do differently in the future. With this additional number of cars, we cannot disregard the impact on traffic congestion in the city. The number of vehicles will increase, yet the road network and infrastructure are not growing to meet this growing demand for transport services. Most government and transport operators around the world have recognised the need for decarbonisation. It is imperative to remind governments who are still investing in the ICE mode of transportation to start looking out for a more sustainable way of transportation

The Impact of Age and Income in Using Mobile Banking Apps

The banking business relates with their customers during the weekly business days, but only a few pay close attention to the importance of demography variables especially in the area of technology use. This study intends to classify the relationship between age and mobile banking app usage, income and the types of device used for mobile banking app, income and the choice for the device brand used for a mobile banking app. It also employed social stratification theory and quantitative methods with Chi-square test and discriminant analysis through SPSS V25. The results show the significant association of age with mobile banking app use and income with the type of mobile devices used for the mobile banking app while the income had an insignificant association with the device brand. The banking sectors need to put inequality income distribution into consideration, and the age differences as these variables impact the use of mobile technology for banking transactions. The study discussed the theoretical contribution, managerial insights, limitations, and made proposals for future study

A bibliometric review of global visibility, impact and adoption of electronic invoicing : The past and the future

The objective of this study is to conduct a bibliometric review of literature on electronic invoicing to provide an understanding of the growing field and valuable sources for future research. A total of 191 papers within the period of 1997 to July 2021 were included in our analysis. The systemic analysis revealed several insights in research progression over two decades, relevant authors and leading institutions including countries, most frequent keywords, and the principal methodolo-gies and theories adopted. Although the field of electronic invoicing is still emerging, it is interesting to see trending keywords such as 'data mining', 'automation', 'blockchain', 'digital storage', and 'machine learning' as demonstrated in recent publications. The study also attempted to develop a framework and proposed an integrated theory of electronic invoicing since the general theoretical framework does not exist in the literature. Several research gaps were exposed related to more studies in the emerging field of electronic invoicing and how future studies could further shape the field by addressing yet unanswered questions. We anticipate that the findings in this study will be a valuable contribution and resource for e-invoicing research.Peer reviewe

Hidden Gold for IT Professionals, Educators, and Students : Insights From Stack Overflow Survey

It is undeniable that technological advancements have taken significant changes in the nature of work, resulting in the loss of many jobs and the emergence of new ones. As a result, information technology (IT) job seekers and professionals must be aware of changes required in their respective fields. This study identified and ranked the most-used technologies, such as programming languages, databases, operating systems (OSs), and collaborative tools, specific to twenty-three (23) different IT roles. Furthermore, this study advocates that individuals focus on critical skills required in various domains to achieve career success. Similarly, individuals with a set of valued technical skills may decide whether to change jobs or roles if they are interested in a position that requires their current competence. The findings of this study can be helpful to career counselors, instructors, students, professionals, recruiters, curriculum designers, and decision-makers.Peer reviewe

Bibliometric structured review of mobile information systems

Abstract This study attempts to fill the identified research gap in the existing literature through a bibliometric analysis and discovered 20 highly global cited papers with 1376 citations and yielded eight (8) core categories of knowledge in MobIS: (1) Information Systems, (2) Adoption, (3) Acceptance, (4) Satisfaction, (5) Information Systems Success and (6) Information Systems continuance. The results show that the distribution of the annual papers flows along the downslope. It was a bit stable in 2016 and since then descend from 2017 to 2020. As a young discipline, there is a need for more productivity, impact, and collaboration in the field of MobIS

Teaching experiences during COVID-19 pandemic:narratives from ResearchGate

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has remarkably affected every sphere of our lives and education inclusive. It greatly disrupted the teaching and learning process, necessitating alternative approaches at different times to ameliorate the situation. In the new normal, various pedagogical tactics and teaching strategies are employed for content delivery. More so, different platforms are utilized to enable learning as well as assessment techniques. This study, therefore, sought to explore the teaching experiences during the pandemic. It also highlights the success factors of online teaching during the COVID-19 semester and the best assessment strategies used during the pandemic. The methodology adopted in the study is narrative and, precisely, the Naturalist narrative. The data utilized are the discussions and responses from questions posed on ResearchGate. The retrieved responses reveal both positive and negative experiences, but more of the challenges encountered dominated the reviews. Many factors account for the negative experiences such as internet issues including its cost, student’s participation rate, insufficient media instructions, lack of students preparation, and preference for face to face class. The responses further show that various platforms enable teaching to continue remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the preference of tools used by individuals differs based on interest, audience, location, the content of the course, accessibility, among others. We gave a conclusion and offered a useful suggestion for future study

Nigeria social enterprise perception on social issues, profit maximization, innovation, and knowledge sharing for poverty eradication

Abstract Poverty alleviation is one of the significant problems that social enterprise wants to solve. It could beabsolute, relative, generational, situational, urban, or rural poverty in Africa. There are scanty literature and a shallowunderstanding of how technology intervenes for social entrepreneurship in a developing context. This study wasconducted to address the identified gap. Quantitative method was used to gather data from the respondents utilizingNigerian samples. This study used SPSS ver. 26 and Python for the descriptive statistics and 5 Likert Scales dataanalysis for 33 measurement items. The result shows that Nigeria’s social enterprise focused on social issues such associal vision, social need, social change, social goal, social value, social mission, and social efforts. The knowledge ofSME owners’ insights on business start-ups in Nigeria and how social entrepreneurship could facilitate business growthand renewal is essential for future pursuit of social entrepreneurship. The importance of communication, operational,social, and collaborative technology was highlighted, and the study concluded with limitations and future researchopportunities

Insight from Nigerian banking customers discussions:a study of contextual semantic search and Twitter sentiment analysis

Abstract Globally, the bank is a significant financial institution that engages customers in millions daily. This financial institution helps its customers in saving their money, with withdrawals, and money transfer electronically. Despite the inevitability of these financial institutions, they are still struggling to improve their customer’s satisfaction index scores. The intervention of the Central Bank and Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission are yielding positive results whenever the local bank failed, but the response time to the customer grievances is quite challenging. The literature reviewed for this study indicates the cruciality of the sentiment analysis technique. This study utilized Twitter Crawler API called the Twitter Scraper for data collection and Textblob, Vader and SentiStrength for the data analyses. The result shows the sentiments in the International Authorization Banking group as against the National Authorization group and a slight difference between the polarities of their customer’s tweets. This study gives new insights internationally and nationally to banking managers and proposes future research directions