An outline for a platform-based, bottom-up model, based on extensive project practices, is introduced for the university-business-government collaboration (UXC) analysis. Current internal incentive problems of UXC at universities especially in Europe are considered and guidelines introduced for a fast-lane platform model for building agile UXC knowledge engines. Experiences and learning lessons...

Our research focuses on an analysis of the perception and utilization of agile methods in Thailand and begins to examine the gap between education and industry in this field. To develop an understanding of how agile methods are incorporated into computer science curricula several leading Thai universities were visited. Further, detailed interviews were conducted with a selection of large softwa...

The current financial climate in the world forces organisations in government and finance to automate their operational decision making to the highest degree. The Dutch government is initiating an approach that facilitates quick, repeatable and correct implementation of new laws and thorough accountability of operational decisions that have been taken. The name of this approach can be translate...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The evolution of e-Government services moves quickly. There is a limited time for adaptation to the new environment in terms of legislation, society, and economy. Maintaining reliable services and a secure IT environment is even more difficult with perpetual changes like mergers and acquisitions, supply chain activity, staff turnover, and regulatory variation. The nature of th...

The dominant presentation paradigm within academic, business and government organizations involves a linear and uninterrupted progression of bulleted slides introduced by a lone figure in front of a passive audience. This format does little to encourage active discussion or facilitate improvisational presentation of material. In this poster, we propose a presentation framework that encourages d...

Transitioning from waterfall to agile processes can be difficult especially for organizations lacking toplevel management support. To explore this topic, we collected qualitative and quantitative data about three projects at a government agency transitioning from a waterfall process to the IBM Rational Unified Process. The results of our analysis of this data identify some of the challenges org...

The outsourcing of IT services is a reality in the Brazilian Government administration. One of the critical aspects of outsourcing software development services is the transfer of knowledge. The purpose of this work was to define procedures for knowledge transfer in an outsourced software development process based on the Scrum framework. This is a descriptive research, in which elements for kno...