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MIS40670 – PAYE Anytime Redesign Project
Video montage & Project Paper on PAYE Anytime redesign proposal, produced and edited by Fiona Walsh, Tarun Rattan and Guillaume Poznanski, UCD MSc iBusiness Students – 2013 as part of Managing System Development module. Video montage: http://youtu.be/qybfF1sBm0c Project Paper: PAYE … Continue reading
MIS40670 – SDLC & SCRUM: How Do They Compare?
SDLC & Scrum are two different approaches to software development that also find use in project management. Both methods have their advantages and disadvantages, and the selection of either method will depend on various project-centric factors. In both the SDLC … Continue reading
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MIS40670 – Factors behind adoption of project management methodology
A project management methodology really provides the high level PM framework and all the steps needed for the successful delivery of a project. The chosen methodology should list all the project phases, activities and tasks required for successful completion of … Continue reading
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MIS40670 – The Soul of a New Machine – Tracy Kidder
The book is a journal record of a computer engineering team in their quest to design the next generation computer Eclipse MV/8000 at a Silicon Valley minicomputer vendor called Data General in 1980. The book was published in 1981 and … Continue reading
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MIS40670 – Readings: Architecture and Agility
Foote, B. & Yoder, J. (2000) Big Ball of Mud. IN HARRISON, N., FOOTE, B. & ROHNERT, H. (Eds.) Pattern languages of program design 4. Addison Wesley. FooteYodder_BigBallOfMud_1999 Beck, K. (1999) Embracing Change with Extreme Programming. Computer, 8. Beck_EmbracingChangeWithExtremeProgramming_1999 Foote … Continue reading
MIS40670 – IONA Case Studies
Allen provided the class with two case studies on IONA Technologies. IONA Technologies was an Irish software company. It was founded in 1991. The company began life as a campus company in Trinity College, Dublin and maintained headquarters in Dublin, … Continue reading
MIS40670 – The Activity Checklist
The Activity Checklist – V. Kaptelinin, B. Nardi & C. Macaulay This paper presents a tool shaped by general theoretical approach of Activity Theory. Activity theory provides a broad theoretical framework for describing the structure, development, and context of human … Continue reading
MIS40670 – Buxton’s Avalanche Case
From Bill Buxton’s Sketching User Experiences (Buxton, 2007). This case sets the issues for high-tech design. Design that works “in the wild”, that works for real people in real situations and facilitates achieving their human goals. Bill Buxton sets the … Continue reading
MIS40670 – Project View & Planning Poker
The class had an interesting discussion around Project view in which high tech development projects characterizes the work in terms of four key variables: Quality, Cost, Time and Scope. Allen initiated the discussion around how the project success is dependent … Continue reading
MIS40670 – Silver Bullet, Chaos Model, Scrum Methodology
The week three readings in Managing System Development course were articles on different software engineering methodologies. Brooks Jr. F. P. (1987) No Silver Bullet Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering, Computer, 20, 10-19 Brooks_NoSilverBullet_1987 An interesting analogy between Software Projects … Continue reading
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