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Comparative analysis of agile practices across software organisations in Europe and the USA
No full textBackground: Agile practices were present in the software industry from the 70s. It is believed that agile practices are meant to solve problems faced with the traditional development process. Since software development is uncertain, the approach needs to be adaptable according to the needs of the project. Since this process involves many people from different locations and backgrounds, it is fair to explore how agile practices are being adapted differently based on the location. Objectives: The goal of this study is to provide insights into how adaptation of agile practices can be different in Europe and the USA. Three objectives were defined in order to achieve this goal. 1)Identifying the differences in adaptation of agile practices between the Euro- pean and US agile teams. 2)Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on agile practices in European and US teams. 3)Understanding the changes made in identified agile practices after COVID-19 when people are back in office. Method: The research method for this study is semi-structured interviews because of the flexibility it offers to extract useful information from the participants in a conversational style. The data collected from the interviews is analysed through a grounded theory approach as it is suitable to derive information from qualitative data based on patterns, behaviours and actions. Results: A total of 11 participants contributed to this study. Six of them are based in Europe while the other five are based in the USA. It has been understood that the background of the person and the culture of the team’s working location affects how agile practices are being adapted. Coming to the teams being able to transition to remote work during the pandemic was easy as everything was already remote work friendly and there was not a lot of change in how the agile practices were adapted except for the frequency of stand-ups increasing as there was a constant need for communication which went back to normal when everyone is back in office after the pandemic. Conclusions: The background of the team members and the geographical location of the team do influence the team’s way of working. While the agile practices are similar in all the teams, the frequency of the agile-specific meetings and how strictly they stick to these principles vary from each team
Comparative analysis of agile practices across software organisations in Europe and the USA
No full textBackground: Agile practices were present in the software industry from the 70s. It is believed that agile practices are meant to solve problems faced with the traditional development process. Since software development is uncertain, the approach needs to be adaptable according to the needs of the project. Since this process involves many people from different locations and backgrounds, it is fair to explore how agile practices are being adapted differently based on the location. Objectives: The goal of this study is to provide insights into how adaptation of agile practices can be different in Europe and the USA. Three objectives were defined in order to achieve this goal. 1)Identifying the differences in adaptation of agile practices between the Euro- pean and US agile teams. 2)Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on agile practices in European and US teams. 3)Understanding the changes made in identified agile practices after COVID-19 when people are back in office. Method: The research method for this study is semi-structured interviews because of the flexibility it offers to extract useful information from the participants in a conversational style. The data collected from the interviews is analysed through a grounded theory approach as it is suitable to derive information from qualitative data based on patterns, behaviours and actions. Results: A total of 11 participants contributed to this study. Six of them are based in Europe while the other five are based in the USA. It has been understood that the background of the person and the culture of the team’s working location affects how agile practices are being adapted. Coming to the teams being able to transition to remote work during the pandemic was easy as everything was already remote work friendly and there was not a lot of change in how the agile practices were adapted except for the frequency of stand-ups increasing as there was a constant need for communication which went back to normal when everyone is back in office after the pandemic. Conclusions: The background of the team members and the geographical location of the team do influence the team’s way of working. While the agile practices are similar in all the teams, the frequency of the agile-specific meetings and how strictly they stick to these principles vary from each team
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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