Building Effective Project Teams

Most IS managers know that managing a project to its successful completion is not an easy task. Conflicts among team members often delay a project's schedule and can ruin the team's morale. Although most managers usually follow the traditional, authoritative style of management to control their team members, this style is no longer considered as effective as the more contemporary, collaborative approach. This article describes how IS managers can manage their projects more effectively by creating collaborative project teams.     

软件工程学生团队构建的案例分析

团队是当前企业的主要运作形式,软件行业尤其强调"团队"。本文以南华大学"软件工程实验班"为研究背景,重点分析软件工程学生团队的特点,依据团队构建的基本原理,在长期教学实践中积极开展实验,提出成功构建软件工程学生团队的具体策略。通过在实验班一年多的运用,验证了该方法的有效性,该策略具有普遍的指导意义。     

Virtual Teams and the Importance of Building Trust

Trust in the workplace is both an ethical and a management issue. Virtual teams have become common in IT, but the importance of building trust in such teams is often underappreciated. In this installment of IT Ethics, the authors look at several definitions and theories of trust and their application in virtual IT teams.     

Guanxi Networks and Creativity in Taiwanese Project Teams

Personal connections, also called guanxi in Chinese culture, are embedded within a network of interdependent social exchanges, providing access to resources, information and supports, therefore facilitating performance. Building guanxi networks means building social networks. Project teams are commonly used as fundamental units in organizations, partly in order to generate more creative ideas, and so this paper evaluates how project teams use their guanxi networks within and outside of their teams and across boundaries to stimulate their creative performance. Fifty‐four product development project teams with 293 members from high‐tech Taiwanese firms participated in this study. Findings suggested that, in a guanxi culture such as Taiwan's, in order to facilitate a project team's creative performance, the most important task is to develop a more cohesive social unit before the team extends its external networks, since Chinese culture regards people first as members of groups, and secondly as individuals.     

Experience-Driven Model of Decision-Making Processes in Project Teams

This article presents a model of decision-making processes in project teams. Project teams constitute a specific type of organization appointed to implement a project. Decisions made by project teams result from the methods of project management and best management practices. The authors have undertaken the task of formalizing these processes using the classical method of constructing decision trees. It has been established that this method cannot be fully exploited because the decision-making paths need changing (the decision tree must be dynamically generated after every decision). Therefore, the authors applied a method for collecting experiences, the Set of Experience Knowledge Structure (SOEKS), to support the structure of a decision tree. This method was used to support decision-making processes regarding the selection of methods and technologies of project management and to classify the location decisions resulting from exceeding levels of particulate matter.     

Building an Effective Privacy Program

Abstract

Privacy and trust are essential to maintaining good relationships with customers, employees, and business partners. It is also necessary to address privacy issues to comply with a growing number of privacy regulations worldwide. Privacy encompasses how business must be conducted, the communications made with customers and consumers, and the technology that enables business processes. Addressing privacy touches all facets of an organization, including business operations, Web sites and services, back-end systems and databases, communications with third parties, customers, and service providers, and legacy systems. An effective privacy governance program will not only make your customers happier, but it will also mitigate your exposure to regulatory noncompliance, lawsuits, bad publicity, and government investigations. This article discusses the issues to address when building a privacy governance program.     

Propositions for Building an Effective Process

Although strategic information systems planning has become an important management process in most organizations, planning methods vary widely. This article discusses 15 propositions that are essential to all effective strategic IS efforts.     

组建高效的教学局域网

介绍了高效的教学局域网的硬件配置和网络拓扑结构，软件的安装和设置，以及网络的功能介绍。     

An Initial Evaluation of Approaches to Building Entry for Large Robot Teams

Teams of robots offer potential reductions in risk for rescuers and improved rescue rates for search and rescue in collapsed buildings and other restricted environments. However, one aspect of deployment of such teams that is often overlooked is the initial entry of the robots into the building. If many robots enter the building from the same entrance, they are likely to interfere with each other and dramatically slow the initial phase of exploration. In this paper, we use a low fidelity simulation to evaluate several approaches to overcoming this initial congestion and identify heuristics that might allow the robots to most quickly clear the entry area and begin their actual mission. Our results show that unless the exits to the initial entry area are small, over a wide range of parameters, the most effective technique was for every robot to move in the direction of the longest open space it senses. In more cluttered environments with smaller exits, wall following, a strategy less dependent on the quality of sensing, proved more effective. Informal comparisons of these algorithms in a high fidelity simulation with limited trials and no variation in parameters suggested that simply promoting dispersion might be a more effective strategy for realistically complex dynamics.     

浅谈建筑工程施工交底

施工交底是施工项目中一项重要的技术管理工作.它是在分项工程施工前,由现场施工技术负责人向所有参与施工的人员进行的技术、安全交底工作.施工交底可以让施工人员详细地了解工程特点、技术质量要求、施工方法、施工措施和安全等内容,以便科学地组织施工,避免技术、质量、安全等事故发生.     

浅谈建筑工程施工管理

在建筑工程项目施工的过程中,要想确保工程质量、节约施工成本、缩短工期和提高建筑企业在市场中的竞争力,就要加强施工管理。适合企业的管理工作对企业发展具有很强的推动力。就建筑工程施工管理的相关内容进行了阐述。     

Dimensionality of Social Capital and Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Information Systems Project Teams

Knowledge sharing and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) among project team members are crucial for project success due to the particularities of information systems (IS) projects. Bonding social capital is known to increase knowledge sharing and collaboration. However, the influence of bridging social capital on knowledge sharing is unclear. The interplay between bridging and bonding social capital is especially interesting in a collectivistic society such as South Korea where in-group ties are particularly strong. In this study, we examine the effect of the sub-dimensions of the above constructs (i.e., bonding, bridging, OCB) on knowledge sharing. The results suggest that bonding and citizenry behavior improves knowledge sharing. Bridging improves knowledge sharing by increasing organizational citizenry behavior. Unexpectedly, the effect of citizenship behavior on knowledge sharing differs from the effect of its sub-dimensions. Only helping others is positively related to knowledge sharing. Similarly, the sub-dimensions of bridging and bonding influence knowledge sharing and citizenship behavior differently than the first-order constructs. For example, shared team mental model positively affects OCB, but has no direct influence on knowledge sharing. Conversely, shared vision is the only sub-dimension of bridging that positively affects OCB. Thus, the results suggest that project managers should facilitate shared project vision and team mental model to encourage team members’ citizenship behavior and control the potential adverse influence of bridging social capital.     

Building Trust and Cooperation through Technology Adaptation in Virtual Teams: Empirical Field Evidence

This article reports findings of a study of how leaders of virtual information systems development teams improve team trust and cooperation by managing adaptation of information and communications tools. Results indicate how Theory X (command and control) and Theory Y (facilitate and support) styles of leadership enable and hinder effective outcomes.     

Building Trust and Cooperation through Technology Adaptation in Virtual Teams: Empirical Field Evidence

Abstract

This article reports findings of a study of how leaders of virtual information systems development teams improve team trust and cooperation by managing adaptation of information and communications tools. Results indicate how Theory X (command and control) and Theory Y (facilitate and support) styles of leadership enable and hinder effective outcomes.     

数据存储备份系统的有效构建浅析

随着神东煤炭集团的整合成立,在神华集团"科学发展,再造神华,五年实现经济总量翻番"战略的指引下,神东煤炭集团以创百年神东,做世界煤炭企业的领跑者的远景出发,为推动国民经济又好又快发展作出更大贡献.同时,对神东煤炭集团信息化建设既是一个机遇也是挑战.目前公司在建、待建和需要升级的应用系统众多,基于对各应用系统数据存储量、系统可靠性和数据安全性以及教据存储、备份集中化等诸多因素的统一规划和考虑.     

工程建设项目的物料管理研究

文章研究了在工程建设项目管理中通过引进物料管理技术（MRP），并与网络计划技术的进度控制结合起来，解决工程建设项目的物料需求管理问题。     

Working Together Apart? Building a Knowledge‐Sharing Culture for Global Virtual Teams

A new impetus for greater knowledge‐sharing among team members needs to be emphasized due to the emergence of a significant new form of working known as ‘global virtual teams’. As information and communication technologies permeate every aspect of organizational life and impact the way teams communicate, work and structure relationships, global virtual teams require innovative communication and learning capabilities for different team members to effectively work together across cultural, organizational and geographical boundaries. Whereas information technology‐facilitated communication processes rely on technologically advanced systems to succeed, the ability to create a knowledge‐sharing culture within a global virtual team rests on the existence (and maintenance) of intra‐team respect, mutual trust, reciprocity and positive individual and group relationships. Thus, some of the inherent questions we address in our paper are: (1) what are the cross‐cultural challenges faced by global virtual teams?; (2) how do organizations develop a knowledge sharing culture to promote effective organizational learning among culturally‐diverse team members? and; (3) what are some of the practices that can help maximize the performance of global virtual teams? We conclude by examining ways that global virtual teams can be more effectively managed in order to reach their potential in this new interconnected world and put forward suggestions for further research.     

Risks to Effective Knowledge Sharing in Agile Software Teams: A Model for Assessing and Mitigating Risks

We present an empirically grounded and theoretically informed model for the assessment and mitigation of risks to effective knowledge sharing in agile development. The model is anchored in empirical insights from four agile projects across two software companies and in extant research on risk‐strategy analysis and knowledge sharing in software development. We develop the model as part of the long‐standing tradition of presenting risk management models dedicated to specific issues in software development and confirm its practical usefulness in one of the software companies studied. The model offers concepts and processes to assess a project's knowledge sharing risk profile and articulate an overall resolution strategy plan to mitigate the risks. The results highlight how different knowledge sharing risk management profiles can lead to different project performance outcomes. We conclude with a discussion of research opportunities that the results offer software development scholarship. © 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd     

一种新颖有效的在线/离线门限签名方案

基于以前提出的门限签名方案的不足,给出了一种新的在线/离线门限签名方案。给出了密钥生成、离线阶段和在线阶段的具体算法步骤,并在随机预言模型下,从完备性和可靠性等方面证明了该方案的安全性,采用零知识证明验证部分签名的方法保证了方案的健壮性,并对方案的计算复杂度,存储复杂度,和通信复杂度进行了效率分析和比较,验证了方案的可行性。证明和分析结果表明,方案解决了密钥泄露问题,大大降低了离线阶段的计算量和存储量,降低了在线阶段的通信量,极大地提高了签名的响应速度,具有良好的安全性和健壮性。