Communication tools used by distributed teams in a BIM learning project

The constant changes in the world market demand flexible and fluid organizational structures, such as rotating and engaging human effort, to provide high performance. Therefore, organizations make use of distributed multicultural teams, meetings, and online lead projects. However, these social categorization processes can become a disadvantage if trigger potential conflicts during task performance. Distributed teams can also be difficult to manage, and their members can face extra adversities in communication. Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industry (AEC), is a context where the use of distributed teams is growing significantly, particularly through the enabling features of Building Information Modelling (BIM) methodologies. This paper was aimed at the diagnosis of communication behaviour in distributed teams in the context of a PBL methodology that requested students to work in distributed teams on two distinct locations. For that, the authors managed a workshop on Lean Project Management and Collaborative Tools in the European Master in Building Information Modelling (BIM A+) using a Lego for Scrum activity, adapted to a team of students distributed in Portugal and Slovenia. After that, nine distributed teams of students had to design exposition pavilions in BIM platform and using collaborative tools. At the end, each team had to present the project for the entire body of students and faculty, located in Guimaraes (Portugal) and Ljubljana (Slovenia).- (undefined

Produção de Mudas, Controle das Principais Pragas e Herborização de Essências Florestais Nativas e Exóticas no sul do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul.

Produção de mudas de essências florestais nativas e exóticas no sul do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul: viveiros e manejo, planejamento e instalação, substratos, espécies nativas, produção de mudas por sementes; seleção, marcação de matrizes e coleta de sementes, espécies exóticas, produção de mudas por sementes (propagação sexuada), semeadura em canteiros, semeadura em recipientes, propagação vegetativa (multiplicação), estaquia, Alporquia, divisão das touceiras, sombreamento, adubação, irrigação, rustificação das mudas, transporte, identificação e controle das principais pragas de essências florestais; coleoptera; buprestidae, cerambycidae, crysomelidae, lepidoptera, stenomatidae, phycitidae, Noções sobre coleta e herborização de plantas: coleta; herborização.bitstream/item/107223/1/2266.pd

Running workshops to identify wastes in a product development sample shop

Lean Thinkingaligned with Information technology can promote competitiveness for modern enterprises, while improve the performance of technological activities and eliminate no value-added tasks to the design process of product. The paper is a contextualization of the current wastes evidenced during the research work carried out in a company that supplies electronic components to automotive industry. Workshops were developed to map the wastes in the sample production processes, as all interested parties are seeing, discussing and learning together in a freely-open environment. The workshops promoted the identification of 60 types of waste, and 26 roots cause. In order to solve scientifically the root causes problems, the production procedures will be readjusted by adopting production guidelines according to the principles of Lean, and some digitization measures will also be considered. The evidence from the workshops demonstrates that the main types of waste reported in the present literature can also be observed in complex projects.This work is supported by: European Structural and Investment Funds in the FEDER component, through the Operational Competitiveness and Internationalization Programme (COMPETE 2020) [Project nº 039479; Funding Reference: POCI-01-0247- FEDER- 039479]

Parental Responses to Coming out by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer, Pansexual, or Two‐Spirited People across Three Age Cohorts

Objective The study aimed to better understand the complexities of parental responses to coming out in the narratives from Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer, Pansexual, or Two‐Spirited (LGBQ+) individuals, and to examine whether those from recent cohorts experience a different parental response than those in older cohorts. Background Sexual minorities come out at younger ages today than in past decades, and coming out to parents is a major part of the identification process. Method Interview excerpts of 155 US lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, pansexual, or two‐spirited (LGBQ+) respondents were analyzed with a qualitative thematic analysis and with basic quantitative methods. The sample consisted of 61 interviewees in a young cohort (ages 18–25), 65 in a middle cohort (ages 35–42), and 29 in an older cohort (ages 52–59), in six ethnic/racial groups. Results Themes based on LGBQ+ people's accounts indicated that parental responses varied with the degree of their a priori knowledge of respondents' sexual identities (ranging from suspicion or certainty to surprise). Parental appraisal was either lacking, negative, mixed, or positive with accompanying silent, invalidating, ambivalent, and validating responses, respectively. Validating responses from parents were more often found in the youngest cohort, but invalidating responses were frequent across all cohorts. LGBQ+ people in the oldest cohort were more inclined to accept their parents being noncommunicative about sexuality in general and also about sexual diversity. Conclusion It is too early to state that coming out to parents has become easier. Harmony in the parent–child relationship after coming out and open communication about sexual identities is regarded as desirable and yet it remains elusive for many LGBQ+ people

Leaning processes by mobile technologies in a Product Development Sample Shop

Lean Thinking is a well-known management philosophy pulling continuous improvement in all organizations processes. By doing this, solutions are designed to add value to the product by reducing wastes in the processes. The wastes could be identified by Value Stream Design for indirect Areas (VSDiA) tool. This tool increase company awareness of each complete process and allows improvement opportunities. Such improvements, many times related to better material and information flow, lead to a reduction of product lead-time. Technology is fundamental to support such improvements. In this article, a multidisciplinary team carried out a project in a company aiming to reduce the lead time in the product prototype development process using the VSDiA and technological solutions via a mobile application. This article presents the ongoing work towards an interface for digitizing information flow using a mobile application that is being submitted to the user's test.This work is supported by: European Structural and Investment Funds in the FEDER component, through the Operational Competitiveness and Internationalization Programme (COMPETE 2020) [Project no 039479; Funding Reference: POCI-01-0247-FEDER-039479]