Gazdaság és Társadalom,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
16(4), P. 21 - 46
Published: Dec. 1, 2023
To
achieve
their
corporate
goals,
savings
banks
in
Germany
use
several
controlling-systems.
These
systems
are
often
combined
with
assessment-systems
for
the
employees.
Mostly
they
carried
out
annually,
example
as
part
of
discussed
conversations.
But
these
still
suitable
to
steer
contributions
individual
em-ployees
company
goals
a
more
and
dynamic
world?
The
OKR
method
(O
stands
“Objectives”,
KR
“Key
Result”)
possible
alternative.
was
used
examined
medium-sized
bank
three
years.
After
first
few
runs
it
became
clear
that
modification
becomes
necessary.
For
this
purpose,
author
(together
manager
bank)
results
from
reviews
were
evaluated.
A
new
concept
created
an
adapted
application
bank.
findings
not
just
interesting
banks,
but
all
companies
who
deal
method.
Empirical Software Engineering,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
28(5)
Published: Aug. 29, 2023
Abstract
Context
Responding
to
change
and
continuously
improving
processes,
practices,
products
are
core
agile
software
development.
It
is
no
different
in
large-scale
agile,
where
multiple
development
teams
need
respond
both
changes
their
external
environments
within
the
organization.
Objective
With
this
study,
we
aim
advance
knowledge
on
coordination
by
developing
a
model
of
types
organizational
that
influence
mechanisms.
Method
We
conducted
longitudinal
case
study
growing
organization,
focusing
how
internal
impact
over
time.
collected
our
data
through
62
days
fieldwork
across
one
half
years.
37
interviews,
observed
118
meetings
at
all
levels,
supplementary
material
such
as
chat
logs
presentations,
analyzed
using
thematic
analysis.
Results
Our
findings
demonstrate
events,
onboarding
new
clients,
team
mechanisms
program.
find
events
lead
introduction
mechanisms,
or
adjustment
existing
ones.
Further,
continuous
scaling
requires
adjustment.
Finally,
having
right
place
time
strengthens
resilience
ability
cope
with
needs
complex
environments.
Conclusions
summarized
an
empirically
based
provides
practical
approach
analyzing
change,
aimed
supporting
researchers
practitioners
dealing
contexts.
Deleted Journal,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
10(1), P. 29 - 46
Published: April 5, 2022
Large-scale
transformations
of
agile
ways
working
have
received
more
attention
in
the
industry
recent
years.
Some
organizations
developed
their
own
solutions
for
scaling,
whereas
many
chosen
trademarked
frameworks.
In
large-scale
software
development,
developers
and
development
teams
carry
out
work
simultaneously.
When
autonomous
need
to
coordinate
toward
a
common
goal,
they
must
sacrifice
some
level
autonomy.
Development,
testing,
integrations
be
coordinated
with
other
aligned
an
organization´s
programs
or
portfolio.
Through
conducting
28
interviews
17
on-site
visits,
this
multiple
case
study
explored
how
team
autonomy
changed
three
that
implemented
Scaled
Agile
Framework
(SAFe).
The
positive
changes
experienced
as
result
included
getting
better
overview,
making
long-term
decisions,
giving
receiving
help,
signaling
limitations.
We
found
two
negative
impacts
on
autonomy:
limited
feature
choice
enforced
refinement.
extends
previous
research
improves
our
understanding
Team
composition
is
a
critical
factor
influencing
collaboration
within
agile
software
development.This
study
investigates
the
impact
of
gender
distribution
on
teamwork
quality
in
engineering
capstone
courses.We
examined
experiences
240
students
organized
into
40
teams
during
an
project
course.We
analyzed
two
surveys,
one
conducted
before
team
and
at
end
work.As
much
as
91%
chose
to
use
practice
conducting
stand-up
meetings
their
work
majority
were
satisfied
with
practice.Further,
our
analysis
reveals
that
while
women
tend
engage
more
design
men
programming,
increase
proportion
correlates
higher
involvement
programming
tasks.Our
findings
highlight
differences
perceptions
related
courses.
Context:
OKR
(Objective
and
Key
Results)
has
emerged
as
a
lightweight
framework
for
business
objectives
measurement
strategic
alignment.
Problem:
Although
we
may
observe
growing
interest
in
the
industry,
academic
literature
on
still
needs
to
be
explored.
Solution:
We
aim
identify
how
why
been
used
by
researchers
information
technology
(IT)
organizations
while
capturing
associated
difficulties,
benefits,
lessons
learned.
IS
Theory:
This
work
is
conducted
under
General
Systems
Theory,
focusing
understanding
IT
individuals
(i.e.,
researchers)
deal
with
using
or
adopting
method.
Method:
executed
systematic
mapping
study
surveying
Engineering
Village,
Scopus,
IEEE
Xplore,
Web
of
Knowledge,
SpringerLink,
ScienceDirect,
Wiley
digital
databases
complemented
results
snowballing.
Summary
Results:
found
30
studies
mentioning
its
use.
Most
(23
out
30)
were
published
after
2020.
In
general,
use
under-documented
from
theoretical
point
view.
selected
present
little
no
was
used.
Among
topics
are
communication,
performance
evaluation,
tasks
planning
prioritization,
transparency,
team
alignment,
goal
fulfillment.
Contributions
Impact
area:
revealed
few
addressing
topic.
Some
research
questions,
such
learned
difficulties
implementation,
need
more
answers.
Also
missing
details
implemented.
Nonetheless,
captured
regarding
main
benefits
advantages
OKR.
expect
this
will
provide
relevant
content
other
researchers.
Applied Sciences,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
13(22), P. 12490 - 12490
Published: Nov. 19, 2023
Recently,
there
has
been
a
surge
in
interest
surrounding
the
field
of
distributed
edge
computing
resource
scheduling.
Notably,
applications
like
intelligent
traffic
systems
and
Internet
Things
(IoT)
monitoring
necessitate
effective
scheduling
migration
resources.
In
addressing
this
challenge,
must
weigh
costs
associated
with
scheduling,
aiming
to
identify
an
optimal
strategy
amid
various
feasible
solutions.
Different
application
scenarios
introduce
diverse
optimization
objectives,
including
considerations
such
as
cost,
transmission
delay,
energy
consumption.
While
current
research
predominantly
focuses
on
problem
local
is
recognized
need
for
increased
attention
global
This
paper
contributes
by
defining
computing,
demonstrating
its
NP-Hard
nature
through
proof.
To
tackle
complex
problem,
proposes
heuristic
solution
based
ant
colony
algorithm
(ACO),
ACO
parameters
achieved
use
particle
swarm
(PSO).
assess
effectiveness
proposed
algorithm,
experimental
comparative
analysis
conducted.
The
results
showcase
algorithm’s
notable
accuracy
efficient
iteration
cost
performance,
highlighting
potential
applicability
benefits
realm
