To Mature or not to Mature: The Information Systems Conundrum

To mature or not to mature: the information systems conundrum

Research has been done within the South African information technology (IT) industry over the last decade with regard to project management maturity (PMM) and the impact it has on delivering information systems (IS) projects successfully. The research was done to determine whether IS PMM per knowledge area has improved over the last decade. It investigates if there is a correlation between matu...

Why Do Some Mature Organizations Not Use Mature CM Tools?

This paper presents a case-study of a Configuration Management (CM) tool evaluation. The evaluation was performed in a company with a long tradition of using CM tools. Although several generations of CM tools have been developed internally, different reasons led to a decision not to use CM tools internally developed but to buy a tool available on the market. A detailed evaluation was performed ...

Board Test Is NOT Mature

The question is whether “Board Testing has become stagnant” as an ITC topic. The implication is that the board test community has nothing new to invent, report or say that would be of use to the ITC community at large, and board test engineers in particular. This leads to the charge that ITC is really only an IC testing conference. While I must accept the fact that the IC content of ITC is much...

The contribution of a mature real estate market to urban regeneration: What are the prerequisites?

Are Cognitive Architectures Mature Enough to Evaluate Notification Systems?

This study investigates the use of cognitive architectures for usability and software engineering of notification system user interfaces. These interfaces, which are special in that they are used in a divided-attention situation, require careful study of multi-tasking support of the information design. Cognitive architectures appear promising for this type of research, since they attempt to mod...