PERCEIVED ENABLERS AND OBSTACLES TO TEAM EFFECTIVENESS

Perceived enablers of 3D virtual environments for virtual team learning and innovation

Virtual teams consist of geographically distributed employees working with a common goal using mostly technology for communication and collaboration. Virtual teams face a number of challenges, discussed in the literature in terms of communication through technology, difficulty in building trust, conveying social cues, and creating awareness, as well as cultural differences. These challenges imp...

Learners' Perceived Effectiveness of Wikis for Team Projects

From a humble information system wikis have evolved in both business organizations and educational institutions, catering to, among other uses, training and education. The current work focuses on wikibased learning and aims to address a visible gap in research. Much previous work is but prescriptive guidelines and self-reflections. While attempts exist involving some assessments of wiki-related...

Three Case Studies on Initiating Product Lines: Enablers and Obstacles

This position paper contains three case reports of projects in which software product line engineering or some key principles of it were applied. From these cases, conclusions about technical and organizational prerequisites for product line initiation are derived.

Obstacles To Literary Translation: Challenges and

Women and ICT: exploring obstacles and enablers of a possible career

The ICT industry is a key contributor to the EU’s economy. Unfortunately, women’s presence is low overall and it decreases as they climb the corporate ladder. Underrepresentation of women in ICT is a research area that has received attention mostly in U.S.A., UK and some European countries. This phenomenon, termed “IT gender gap”, has not received much attention in Italy, yet. Therefore, the pu...