There has been a request to publish more research results on business impacts of agile adoption in software team. This is an empirical study done in one Fortune 500 company where agility was adopted while the team was working on in order to deliver a product consisting of responsive web design. The adoption resulted in Pragmatic Agile approach, where the agility and Hero team approach was found...

The primary purpose in this study was to extend theory and research regarding the motivational process in teams by examining the effects of hybrid rewards on team performance. Further, to better understand the underlying team level mechanisms, the authors examined whether the hypothesized benefits of hybrid over shared and individual rewards were due to increased information allocation and redu...

nent feature of our modern medical care system. Over the last 40 years the ‘medical team’ or ‘firm’ has changed in many ways resulting in a way of working which can be deeply satisfying for the team members and beneficial to patients they care for. However, if the team does not function well as a unit the reverse can apply, with much dissatisfaction among staff, and substandard treatment of pat...

This article describes how librarians became involved as members of an interdisciplinary curricular team in a problem-based learning course for first- and second-year medical students. The experience illustrates how librarians can become part of a team, collaborating with medical faculty to assist in revising curricula, incorporating innovative teaching techniques, and creating effective simula...

This paper presents an introduction ~ to a model of a collaborative working environment which supports distributed team argumentation, negotiation, consensus building and rationalecapture. Based on a natural model of team deliberation, this model is the basis for the development of a system which enables team support and the capture of the design rationale in value added activities. The consens...

We present findings from a field experiment on team diversity. Individuals working as canvassers in an elections-related experiment were randomly assigned a junior teammate, a senior manager and a set of households to visit. This created random variation in the degree of horizontal diversity, vertical (or hierarchical) diversity and external (or client) diversity within each team. We find that ...

This paper presents the challenges involved for team members working on a research project from three different universities located in Melbourne and Brisbane. An advisory university was located overseas in Surrey, England. A variety of computer mediated technologies were used for online collaborations and discussions such as Skype, Elluminate Live!, Carrick Exchange and an Access Grid. Team co...

1. Complete both parts of project: 1) Attacks on RFID mutual authentication, and 2) secure RFID system design. 2. Maximum allowed team size is three. Email the names of your group members to the instructor and TA by Monday, October 23. You are welcome to use discussion board to find groups. 3. Submission method: – Submit both project report and source code via Dropbox 4. On the front page of yo...

The purpose of this study was to use faultline theory to examine the effects of gender diversity on team creativity. Results from 80 teams working on an idea generation task indicated that the activation of gender faultlines negatively affected the number and overall creativity of ideas. However, gender faultlines that were not activated had no effect. Results also indicated that the relationsh...

INTRODUCTION By providing a structured forum to exchange information and ideas, multidisciplinary team meetings improve working relationships, expedite investigations, promote evidence-based treatment, and ultimately improve clinical outcomes. METHODS This discursive paper reports the introduction of a multidisciplinary team approach to manage hepatobiliary diseases in Jamaica, focusing on th...