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Prof Julian Bass' 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.

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.

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.

Product innovation with Scrum : a longitudinal case study (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Abdul, A., Bass, J., Ghavimi, H., & Adam, P. (2017). Product innovation with Scrum : a longitudinal case study. . https://doi.org/10.23919/i-Society.2017.8354664

This paper describes the innovation processes used in a partnership between a company that provides asset integrity and maintenance management consulting services in the energy sector and a university. The challenge faced by the company is to make th... Read More about Product innovation with Scrum : a longitudinal case study.

Agile methods in Ethiopia : an empirical study (2017)
Journal Article
Regassa, Z., Bass, J., & Midekso, D. (2017). Agile methods in Ethiopia : an empirical study. #Journal not on list, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59111-7_31

This paper provides empirical evidence of agile method adoption in smaller companies in Ethiopia. Agile methods are emerging as best practice for software development in the global north. So, is there evidence that agile methods are being used in Eth... Read More about Agile methods in Ethiopia : an empirical study.

Experimenting with docker: Linux container and baseos attack surfaces (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Mohallel, A. A., Bass, J., & Dehghantaha, A. (2017). Experimenting with docker: Linux container and baseos attack surfaces. . https://doi.org/10.1109/i-Society.2016.7854163

Linux containers showed great superiority when compared to virtual machines and hypervisors in terms of networking, disk and memory management, start-up and compilation speed, and overall processing performance. In this research, we are questioning w... Read More about Experimenting with docker: Linux container and baseos attack surfaces.

Optimizing the deployment of cloud-hosted application components for guaranteeing multitenancy isolation (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Charles Ochei, L., Petrovski, A., & Bass, J. (2017). Optimizing the deployment of cloud-hosted application components for guaranteeing multitenancy isolation. . https://doi.org/10.1109/i-Society.2016.7854180

The sharing of components of a cloud-hosted application and the underlying cloud resources between tenants have the potential to reduce resource consumption and running cost per tenant. However, this sharing may allow the behaviour of one component t... Read More about Optimizing the deployment of cloud-hosted application components for guaranteeing multitenancy isolation.

Cloud-computing : adoption issues for Ethiopian public and private enterprises (2017)
Journal Article
Seifu, S., Dahiru, A., Bass, J., & Allison, I. (2017). Cloud-computing : adoption issues for Ethiopian public and private enterprises. The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 78(7), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1681-4835.2017.tb00575.x

This paper explores the emergence and adoption of cloud computing by enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa. Several studies have shown the benefits of cloud technologies for enterprises. Using qualitative techniques we obtained and analyzed data from nin... Read More about Cloud-computing : adoption issues for Ethiopian public and private enterprises.

Implementing the required degree of multitenancy isolation : a case study of cloud-hosted bug tracking system (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Ochei, L., Petrovski, A., & Bass, J. (2016). Implementing the required degree of multitenancy isolation : a case study of cloud-hosted bug tracking system. In Services Computing (SCC), 2016 IEEE International Conference on 27 June-2 July 2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/SCC.2016.56

Implementing the required degree of isolation between tenants is one of the significant challenges for deploying a multitenant application on the cloud. In this paper, we applied COMITRE (COmponent-based approach to Multitenancy Isolation Through req... Read More about Implementing the required degree of multitenancy isolation : a case study of cloud-hosted bug tracking system.

Improving writing processes using lean and Kanban (2016)
Journal Article
Bass, J. (2016). Improving writing processes using lean and Kanban. Learned Publishing, 29(4), 307-310. https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1045

Key points
•Concepts from lean manufacturing and Kanban production can usefully be applied to writing for academic publication.
•Value and pull focus the author's attention on the needs of reviewers, editors, and readers.
•Value stream and flow... Read More about Improving writing processes using lean and Kanban.

Large-scale offshore agile tailoring : exploring productand service organisations (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Bass, J. (2016). Large-scale offshore agile tailoring : exploring productand service organisations. In Proceedings of the Scientific Workshop Proceedings of XP2016. https://doi.org/10.1145/2962695.2962703

This paper uses empirical data to compare large-scale agile method tailoring in two types of global software development programme: offshore outsourced services and offshore captive development centres. This research forms part of a larger study and... Read More about Large-scale offshore agile tailoring : exploring productand service organisations.

Artefacts and agile method tailoring in large-scale offshore software development programmes (2016)
Journal Article
Bass, J. (2016). Artefacts and agile method tailoring in large-scale offshore software development programmes. Information and Software Technology, 75, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2016.03.001

Context: Large-scale offshore software development programmes are complex, with challenging deadlines and a high risk of failure. Agile methods are being adopted, despite the challenges of coordinating multiple development teams. Agile processes are... Read More about Artefacts and agile method tailoring in large-scale offshore software development programmes.