Improving ‘at-action’ decision-making in team sports through a holistic coaching approach

Improving Software Engineering Through Holistic Project Coaching

The process to successfully engineer quality software suffers from challenges identified over 40 years ago. Upon deeper review, a majority of the factors related to software development failure are human factors. Including a Project Coach (PC) who is focused on humanistic issues in the software engineering process will have a positive impact in addressing software engineering challenges. A PC f...

Decision Making Skill and Complex Problem Solving in Team Sports

Integration of professional judgement and decision-making in high-level adventure sports coaching practice.

This study examined the integration of professional judgement and decision-making processes in adventure sports coaching. The study utilised a thematic analysis approach to investigate the decision-making practices of a sample of high-level adventure sports coaches over a series of sessions. Results revealed that, in order to make judgements and decisions in practice, expert coaches employ a ra...

Improving Human Decision Making through Case-Based Decision Aiding

ness of Indexes Although cases are specific, indexes to cases need to be chosen so that the case can be used in as broad a selection of situations as appropriate. Often, this approach means indexes should be more abstract than the details of a particular case. Consider, for example, a case from CHEF (Hammond 1986, 1989). CHEF just created a recipe for beef and broccoli, a stir-fried dish. When ...

Improving group decision making: a fuzzy GSS approach

Group decision making methods such as Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) have been developed extensively, but their organizational use for group decision making has been difficult. According to Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem, one possible reason is that a group decision outcome could never satisfy every decision maker’s individual preference. This paper proposes a fuzzy GSS (Group Support Sys...