Outputs (116)

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.

From ARMS to brains - from the Acorn RISC machine to Spiking Neural Network Architecture (2018)
Journal Article
Bass, J., & Furber, S. (2018). From ARMS to brains - from the Acorn RISC machine to Spiking Neural Network Architecture. ITNOW, 60(3), 52-53. https://doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwy079

In May 2018, Prof Steve Furber CBE FRS FREng DFBCS FIET CITP CEng spoke to Manchester Branch BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. This article is a summary of Prof Furber's contribution.

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.

Scrum for product innovation : a longitudinal embedded case study (2018)
Journal Article
Bass, J., Abdul, A., Ghavimi, H., MacRae, N., & Adam, P. (2018). Scrum for product innovation : a longitudinal embedded case study. International Journal of Multimedia and Image Processing, 8(2), 414-424. https://doi.org/10.20533/ijmip.2042.4647.2018.0051

This article describes the innovation processes used in a partnership between Add Latent Ltd., an asset integrity and maintenance management consulting services provider in the energy sector and University of Salford. The challenge faced by the compa... Read More about Scrum for product innovation : a longitudinal embedded case study.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Information and Communication Technologies for Development (2017)
Conference Proceeding
(2017). Information and Communication Technologies for Development. In J. Choudrie, M. S. Islam, F. Wahid, J. M. Bass, & J. E. Priyatma (Eds.), IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59111-7

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.