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How Scrum adds value to achieving software quality?
Scrum remains the most popular agile software development method implementation for a variety of reasons; one important motive is to improve software quality. Yet many organizations fail to achieve quality imp...
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How Access to Resources Affects Complementor Innovation in Platform Ecosystems
Platform owners must ensure that the ecosystems around their platforms remain as innovative as possible to meet market needs and keep pace with competing platform ecosystems. To this end, platform owners eithe...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Government IT Projects: Current Evidence of Cost and Schedule Overrun and Their Antecedents
Although government information technology (IT) projects are often claimed to suffer from cost and schedule overrun, current valid evidence of the magnitude of the problem and its antecedents is difficult to f...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Designing a Risk Assessment Tool for Artificial Intelligence Systems
Notwithstanding its potential benefits, organizational AI use can lead to unintended consequences like opaque decision-making processes or biased decisions. Hence, a key challenge for organizations these days ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Agile Software Development Practices and Success in Outsourced Projects: The Moderating Role of Requirements Risk
Although agile practices are gaining in popularity, there is little evidence showing how particular agile practices, in particular those involving the client, affect the success of outsourced software projects...
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Begleiteter Wissenstransfer im Outsourcing: Eine wissenschaftliche Fallanalyse
Dieses Kapitel berichtet von einem erfolgreichen und einem gescheiterten Wissenstransfer. In beiden Fällen sollte ein Softwareingenieur in einen neuen, komplexen Tätigkeitsbereich eingearbeitet werden. Die Fäl...
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Knowledge Transfer in Software Maintenance Outsourcing: The Key Roles of Software Knowledge and Guided Learning Tasks
Software maintenance eats up the lion’s share of corporate software expenses, and many organizations attempt to reduce these costs through outsourcing and offshoring. A key challenge in these initiatives is to...
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Zwei Fallstudien zu begleitetem Wissenstransfer im Outsourcing: Implikationen für die Praxis
Dieses Kapitel berichtet von einem erfolgreichen und einem gescheiterten Wissenstransfer. In beiden Fällen sollte ein Softwareingenieur in einen neuen, komplexen Tätigkeitsbereich eingearbeitet werden. Die Fäl...
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Chapter
Managing Knowledge Transfer in Software-Maintenance Outsourcing Transitions: A System-Dynamics Perspective
The existing literature suggests that transitions in software-maintenance offshore outsourcing projects are prone to knowledge transfer blockades, i.e. situations in which the activities that would yield effec...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Learning Software-Maintenance Tasks in the Transition Phase of Offshore Outsourcing Projects: Two Learning-Theoretical Perspectives
The increasing practice of offshore outsourcing software maintenance has posed the challenge of effectively transferring knowledge to individual software engineers of the vendor. In this theoretical paper, we ...
