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Southern theories in ICT4D (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Kreps, D., & Bass, J. (2019). Southern theories in ICT4D. In P. Nielsen, & H. Kimaro (Eds.), Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Strengthening Southern-Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D 15th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2019, Dar es Salaam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19115-3_1

This paper suggests that the dominance of northern research paradigms in ICT4D may be viewed as a continuation of colonial sway over the endeavors of the global South. The notion of Southern Theory - as introduced in the work of Raewyn Connell, the... Read More about Southern theories in ICT4D.

Evolutionary Computation for Optimal Component Deployment with Multitenancy Isolation in Cloud-hosted Applications (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Charles Ochei, L., Petrovski, A., & Bass, J. (2018). Evolutionary Computation for Optimal Component Deployment with Multitenancy Isolation in Cloud-hosted Applications. . https://doi.org/10.1109/INISTA.2018.8466315

A multitenant cloud-application that is designed to use several components needs to implement the required degree of isolation between the components when the workload changes. The highest degree of isolation results in high resource consumption and... Read More about Evolutionary Computation for Optimal Component Deployment with Multitenancy Isolation in Cloud-hosted Applications.

Hierarchical multi-tenancy in business to businesssoftware services (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Abdul, A., & Bass, J. (2018). Hierarchical multi-tenancy in business to businesssoftware services. . https://doi.org/10.1109/SEAA.2018.00085

The introduction of cloud computing has changed the provisioning and consumption of IT resources. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications provide functionality using internet connectivity and enable centralised management of executable code resourc... Read More about Hierarchical multi-tenancy in business to businesssoftware services.

Evaluating the effect of multi-tenancy patterns in containerized cloud-hosted content management system (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Adewojo, A., & Bass, J. (2018). Evaluating the effect of multi-tenancy patterns in containerized cloud-hosted content management system. . https://doi.org/10.1109/PDP2018.2018.00047

Multi-tenancy in cloud computing describes the extent to which resources can be shared while guaranteeing isolation among components (tenants) using these resources. There are three multi-tenancy patterns: shared, tenant-isolated and dedicated compon... Read More about Evaluating the effect of multi-tenancy patterns in containerized cloud-hosted content management system.

Experience of industry case studies : a comparison of multi-case and embedded case study methods (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Bass, J., Beecham, S., & Noll, J. (2018). Experience of industry case studies : a comparison of multi-case and embedded case study methods. In CESI '18 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Conducting Empirical Studies in Industry (13-20). https://doi.org/10.1145/3193965.3193967

This research comprises a methodological comparison of two independent empirical case studies in industry: Case Study A and Case Study B. Case Study A, is a multiple-case study involving a set of short-duration data collections with 46 practitioners... Read More about Experience of industry case studies : a comparison of multi-case and embedded case study methods.

Poster: An empirical study of the product owner role inScrum (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Bass, J., Beecham, S., Razzak, M., Canna, C., & Noll, J. (2018). Poster: An empirical study of the product owner role inScrum. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3183440.3195066

The Product Owner (PO) is critical for translating business needs into a software implementation by gathering and prioritizing requirements, and assessing whether features have met the definition of “done.” There is a paucity of detail about how POs... Read More about Poster: An empirical study of the product owner role inScrum.

Employee retention and turnover in global software development : comparing in-house offshoring and offshore outsourcing (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Bass, J., Beecham, S., Razzak, M., & Noll, J. (2018). Employee retention and turnover in global software development : comparing in-house offshoring and offshore outsourcing. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3196369.3196375

Poor employee retention (high staff turnover) has a negative impact on software development productivity and product quality. Further, offshore outsourcing has a widely held reputation for particularly poor employee retention. Interestingly, in-house... Read More about Employee retention and turnover in global software development : comparing in-house offshoring and offshore outsourcing.

A performance evaluation of multi-tenant data tier design patterns in a containerized environment (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Abdul, A., Bass, J., Ghavimi, H., & Adam, P. (2018). A performance evaluation of multi-tenant data tier design patterns in a containerized environment. In 2017 International Conference on Information Society (i-Society). https://doi.org/10.23919/i-Society.2017.8354684

Software as a Service (SaaS) has become one of de facto approach for deploying cloud base services or applications for many businesses. At the core of SaaS is Multi-tenancy; multi-tenancy gives customers (i.e. tenants) and software provider vast oppo... Read More about A performance evaluation of multi-tenant data tier design patterns in a containerized environment.

A study of the Scrum Master’s role (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Noll, J., Razzak, M., Bass, J., & Beecham, S. (2017). A study of the Scrum Master’s role. In M. Felderer, D. Méndez Fernández, B. Turhan, M. Kalinowski, F. Sarro, & D. Winkler (Eds.), Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 18th International Conference, PROFES 2017, Innsbruck, Austria, November 29–December 1, 2017, Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69926-4

Scrum is an increasingly common approach to software development adopted by organizations around the world. However, as organizations transition from traditional plan-driven development to agile development with Scrum, the question arises as to which... Read More about A study of the Scrum Master’s role.