scholarly journals SABUMO-dTest: Design and evaluation of an intelligent collaborative distributed testing framework

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Colomo-Palacios ◽  
Luis López-Cuadrado ◽  
Israel González-Carrasco ◽  
José García-Peñalvo
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Semantic Technologies ◽  
Controlled Vocabularies ◽  
Distributed Development ◽  
Testing Framework ◽  
Distributed Testing ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Distributed Process ◽  
Global Software Engineering

Software development must increasingly adapt to teams whose members work together but are geographically separated leading to distributed development projects. Such projects consist of teams working together, but sited in different geographic locations. Under these conditions, Global Software Engineering is having a profound impact on the way products are conceived, designed, constructed and tested. One of the problems with this area is the lack of tools which supports the distributed process. Focusing on the testing process, this paper presents SABUMO-dTest, a framework based on Semantic technologies that allows software organizations to represent testing processes with the final aim of trading their services or modeling their testing needs in a social and competitive environment. The proposed framework benefits from a set of shared and controlled vocabularies that permit knowledge and process sharing with potential partners, experts and testing service providers. The evaluation of the system included two kinds of projects, the ones in which testing was not determined by SABUMO-dTest and the ones developed under its influence. Results show remarkable outcomes in SABUMO-dTest driven projects.

scholarly journals Managing an Integrated Project - Experiences from the Realigning Agriculture to Improve Nutrition project

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 5035 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Matturi ◽  
Chris Pain
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
International Development ◽  
Project Manager ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Donor Funding ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
Integrated Project

Over the last number of decades there has been a tendency within the international development sector to privilege the management of projects in a siloed manner. This translates to projects managed in a narrow way according to pre-defined parameters of say the education or health sectors. As a project manager you are held accountable for delivering education or health outputs. A shift in donor funding to focus on development projects that are considered easy to administer partly explains this siloed approach to project management within the development sector. However, there is a gradual kick back against the siloed project management approach. Instead we are seeing a return to an integrated managerial approach.An integrated managerial approach involves bringing together various technical specialists to work on common objectives in a coordinated and collaborative manner. A growing number of development actors such as Concern Worldwide are embracing this ‘new approach’. For Concern Worldwide integrated projects are interventions which address multiple needs through coordination across a variety of sectors and with the participation of all relevant stakeholders to achieve common goals. Integrated projects are about sector projects working together with the same target group in the same area in a coordinated manner. This paper reflects on Concern’s experience and evidence to date with integration drawing on the agency’s work in Zambia. The Realigning Agriculture to Improve Nutrition project in Zambia highlights the practical challenges and lessons of managing an integrated project.   

scholarly journals Archaeological Digital Archiving in Turkey

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurdan Atalan Çayırezmez ◽  
Piraye Hacıgüzeller ◽  
Tuna Kalayci
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Semantic Technologies ◽  
Online Publishing ◽  
Controlled Vocabularies ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
Digital Archiving ◽  
Know How

This article provides a brief overview of archaeological digital archiving in Turkey. It introduces the legal framework and the stakeholders involved in conducting archaeological excavations and surveys. The current situation in archiving born-digital and digitised documentation produced during archaeological fieldwork is then introduced. Existing repositories serving as hubs for archaeological and heritage archiving are listed and briefly discussed. Analysis of online publishing practices for archaeological digital resources points to an eclectic landscape that only minimally complies with the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles. We conclude that guidelines for best practice in metadata and semantic technologies, locally applicable standards (especially controlled vocabularies), technical know-how, and a larger acceptance of open data and scholarship remain much-needed assets for archaeological digital archiving in Turkey. We also conclude that the future promises progress towards more interoperable archaeological digital archives thanks to international training, network and knowledge transfer opportunities (e.g. SEADDA Project).

A Model for Selecting Techniques in Distributed Requirement Elicitation Processes

2011 ◽  
pp. 351-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Aranda ◽  
Aurora Vizcaíno ◽  
Alejandra Cechich ◽  
Mario Piattini
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Cognitive Styles ◽  
Requirements Elicitation ◽  
Global Software Development ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Requirement Elicitation ◽  
Distributed Development ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
And Control

This chapter introduces a model based on techniques from cognitive psychology as a means to improve the requirement elicitation in global software development projects. Since distance negatively affects communication and control, distributed development processes that are crucially based on communication, such as requirements elicitation, have to be specially rethought in order to minimize critical situations. This chapter proposes reducing problems in communication by selecting a suite of appropriate elicitation techniques and groupware tools according to stakeholders’ cognitive styles. It also shows how information about stakeholders’ personalities can be used to make them feel comfortable and to improve their performances when working in a group.

Through the wall: An address to practitioners at a forum on the Working Together Strategy

2000 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Paul McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Drug Treatment ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Quality Improvement Initiative ◽  
Child Protection Services ◽  
Treatment Services ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Collaboration And Communication

This address was given at a forum in November J999 for practitioners in the juvenile justice, alcohol and drug, mental health and child protection services in Victoria as part of the Department of Human Services’ Working Together Strategy’ (WTS). The WTS is a quality improvement initiative of the DHS in partnership with adolescent mental health and drug treatment service providers.WTS provides an organisational framework for the Community Care Division, the Aged, Community and Mental Health Division and the Public Health Division (specifically in reference to the mental health, child protection and care, juvenile justice and drug treatment services programs) to achieve better outcomes for shared clients. WTS is a response to perceived deficits in cross-program collaboration and communication in cases involving high need adolescent clients.

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