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Southern theories in ICT4D (2019)
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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.

Agile software development practices in Egypt SMEs : a grounded theory investigation (2019)
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Agile information system development methods have been adopted
by most software development organizations due to their proven benefits in terms
of flexibility, reliability, and responsiveness. However, companies face significant
challenges in adop... Read More about Agile software development practices in Egypt SMEs : a grounded theory investigation.

Influential factors of aligning Spotify squads in mission-critical and offshore projects – a longitudinal embedded case study (2018)
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Changing the development process of an organization is one of the toughest and riskiest decisions. This is particularly true if the known experiences and practices of the new considered ways of working are relative and subject to contextual assumptio... Read More about Influential factors of aligning Spotify squads in mission-critical and offshore projects – a longitudinal embedded case study.

Information flows at inter-team boundaries in agile information systems development (2018)
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Agile software development methods are being used on larger projects thus the study of inter-team communication are becoming an important topic of interest for researchers. This research addresses inter-team communication by exploring the tools and t... Read More about Information flows at inter-team boundaries in agile information systems development.

Evolutionary Computation for Optimal Component Deployment with Multitenancy Isolation in Cloud-hosted Applications (2018)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.