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Search results for: TEAM MANAGEMENT, TEAM ROLES
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Team Roles and Team Performance in Small Virtual Software Teams
PublicationThe article presents the results of research on the composition of team roles conducted in 24 student software teams. An adaptation of M. Belbin’s model by B. Kożusznik was used. The model of team balance according to Belbin and Haaf is presented and correlations between team balance and team performance are analysed. Team performance is measured at three levels: result, satisfaction and team climate. The selected constellation...
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Project Team Management Supported by an Agent-Based Model
PublicationThis work is a continuation of a series of works about research into the use of multi-agent systems to support IT project management. Previous studies have shown the possibility of using a multi-agent in order to optimize management decisions concerning the selection of methods for project implementation. It was noted that the project manager's decisions are influenced by three fundamental parameters: the entropy of the project,...
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Building Project and Project Team Characteristics For Creating Hybrid Management Processes
PublicationThis paper introduces a method of building the characteristic of Software Development Project. Project characteristic is determined on the basis of several factors such as the complexity of Software Development Project and Project Team, results of historical projects and information on processes and methodologies, which are implemented in analyzed organizations. Information on project complexity can be applied to many different...
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Risk Management in "Agile" methodologies using the example of Scrum and the IBM Rational Team Concert tool
PublicationProject risk is one of the key areas which should be subjected to a thorough analysis in any IT project. Project managers undertake steps to minimize risks, both in terms of organization (matching people to tasks or roles) as well as in terms of technology (using appropriate tools for the management and execution of tasks). Every method of project management defines and describes the processes and techniques related to knowledge...
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Virtual work and virtual team management
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Hybrid fuzzy-ontological project framework of a team work simulation system
PublicationThe aim of this article is to present the project framework for constructing a Software Process Simulation Modeling (SPSM) system. SPSM systems can be used as a virtual environment for the selection of methods and tools of project management in IT support organizations. The constructed system simulates the Scrum methodology, including the management processes and the project roles. For the implementation of Scrum processes, the...
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Hybrid Fuzzy-Ontological Project Framework of a Team Work Simulation System
PublicationThe aim of this article is to present the project framework for constructing a Software Process Simulation Modeling (SPSM) system. SPSM systems can be used as a virtual environment for the selection of methods and tools of project management in IT support organizations. The constructed system simulates the Scrum methodology, including the management processes and the project roles. For the implementation of Scrum processes, the...
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Structural Heart-The Journal of the Heart Team
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Michał Tomasz Tomczak dr hab.
PeopleMichał T. Tomczak, PhD. DSc is an Associate Professor of Human Resources Management and Vice Dean for Cooperation and Development at Faculty of Management and Economics. He was a Visiting Scholar at University of North Texas, TX; Curtin University and University of Western Australia. Author and coauthor of more than 50 publications in the field of human resource management. Principal Investigator and co-investigator of several...
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Strategies for Dealing With Software Product Management Challenges
PublicationSoftware product management, which involves multiple processes and responsibilities and links to many activities within the organisation, increases the success rate of IT projects. However, the adoption of product management activities and the implementation of the software product manager role itself varies between companies. This research explores the topic of software product managers’ strategies for dealing with challenges...
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Fuzzy Methods and Models for a Team-Building Process
PublicationThis chapter contains an introduction to fuzzy-logic model-based approaches for a team-building process. Such appraches allow extending typical recruiting practice and selection processes to enable a wider and more precise assessment of a new team and/or existing team members, taking into account both their hard and soft skills. Moreover, as effectiveness of teams depends on the interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence...
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To Work or Not to Work… in a Multicultural Team?
PublicationThe main goal of the article is to present research findings regarding student’s attitude to working in a multicultural team (MCT). Research participants of different cultural background completed the research survey. Their willingness to work in MCT was measured together with factors that influence it. These include factors related to both team members and the task structure. Research findings indicate that the respondents preferred...
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Joanna Czerska dr inż.
PeopleI am a woman whose mission and passion is the development of people and organizations. My motto is: "There is no such fantasy that human will and reason cannot transform into reality." William Shakespeare In my life I am guided by the values of respect, teamwork and a positive attitude. They define me and decide what kind of person I am. My adventure with Lean began when I was writing my diploma thesis during my studies at WZiE...
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A Cross-Team Collaborative Evaluation of a CRM System
PublicationThis paper presents an analysis of an usability evaluation a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) performed by a team composed of external usability experts jointly with a CRM staff. The evaluation process differed from a classical scheme known from former projects, including some new elements resulting from a specific context of this study. These novel elements resulted in reshaping the role of the CRM system and considering...
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Adam Dąbrowski dr inż.
PeopleAdam Dabrowski has obtained a PhD in mechanical engineering from Gdańsk University of Technology and MSc. degree in mechatronics from Technische Universität Hamburg. He has an industry experience in Institute of Aviation Engineering Design Center (Warsaw, Poland) and SICK AG (Hamburg, Germany). Additionally, as an assistant at Gdansk University of Technology he teaught courses on mechanics, space mechanisms and dynamics of space...
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Managing change through team building in the context of organizing Erasmus+ mobility projects at the Gdańsk Tech Library
PublicationThe article discusses managing change through team building in the context of organizing Erasmus+ mobility projects in the Gdańsk University of Technology Library as the main strategy which contributed to the projects’ success. The authors describe the projects realized in the years 2017-2019 within the scope of the Erasmus+ programme. The organizers decided to take a responsible and active approach towards managing change and...
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On the Agile Mindset of an Effective Team – An Industrial Opinion Survey
PublicationIn this paper we present the results of an opinion survey among 52 agile practitioners who evaluated the importance of 26 selected elements of the agile mindset to the effectiveness of an agile team. In total, we have identified 70 unique agile mindset elements based on 11 literature sources and 5 interviews with industry experts. 7 elements belonged to the “support for business goals” category, 20 to the “relationships within...
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GROUP COMPOSER - System for Modeling Agents’ Team Building for Tasks
PublicationMulti-agent systems consist of many autonomous units, called agents, that can interact when trying to achieve their goals. The selection of interaction partners is called team formation. Three basic approaches can be considered to match multi-agent system resources to the problem at hand. To research the properties of different approaches, a software for modeling team formation in multi-agent systems has been created and is presented...
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Utilizing online collaborative games to facilitate Agile Software Development
PublicationEffective collaboration and interaction among the development team and between the team and the customer as well as proactive attitude in initiating and implementing improvements play vital roles in the success of agile projects. The challenge is how to address these social aspects since neither the Agile Manifesto nor the Scrum Guide specify techniques that aid the human side of software development. To fill this gap, we developed...
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Knowledge Management Challenges in Collaborative Design of a Virtual Call Centre
PublicationThis paper presents the analysis of knowledge management issues for an user interface consulting project relevant during the development of a Virtual Call Centre. Experiences gathered by the team of designers and team of usability consultants have been described and evaluated from the knowledge management viewpoint. A concept of a knowledge-based system, potentially supporting usability consulting in subsequent IT projects has...
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Odour Perception Using a Sniffing Team at a Municipal Solid Waste Treatment Plant: A Case Study
PublicationThe monitoring of odour intensity, generated by a landfill area, is a difficult activity since it is a multi-source problem with discontinuous odour emissions. A modified sniffing team method is described here and applied to determine the main odour sources in a landfill located in Pomerania, Poland. Four consecutive test sessions were performed during the following months: August, December, April, and June. It was found that the...
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Managing Virtual Teams: The Three Dimensions Scope
PublicationDue to globalisation and economic reasons the number of people working as a team in a virtual environment is increasing. Although virtual team can outperform teams working in a traditional environment still many managers face difficulties in achieving this goal. This article describes the idea of a system that would support knowledge management in virtual teams focusing on three dimensions of virtual work: location, organisation,...
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Zaufanie w zespole badawczym – studium przypadku (projekt CD NIWA realizowany na Politechnice Gdańskiej)
PublicationArtykuł dotyczy tematyki klimatu pracy zespołowej, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem zaufania w zespole jako czynnika warunkującego zaangażowanie, efektywność i innowacyjność zespołu. Przeanalizowano znaczenie oraz wymiary zaufania w zespole badawczym na podstawie koncepcji International Team Trust Indicator, czyli dziesięciowymiarowego modelu zaufania. Celem artykułu jest analiza klimatu współpracy i poziomu zaufania w interdyscyplinarnym...
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Teams tools. Leading high-performance teams with different types of intelligence
PublicationThe subject of this paper is the analysis of necessary tools for global teams, image of the team leader, styles of leadership in global teams. The analysis is based on selected examples from high-performance teams with visible results. The purpose of the work is to answer for the following questions: What are the characteristics of the leading global teams? Which style of leadership use the global teams? Is a female leader different...
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COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TRADITIONAL AND VIRTUAL TEAMS
PublicationThe paper presents two kinds of cooperating teams: traditional and virtual, and proposes a new measure of the team virtuality level. Some representative teamwork characteristics, such as team member competencies, team diversity, leadership, and team decision-making are analyzed and compared depending on the degree of virtuality. Moreover, the team climate as one of the team performance measures is also analyzed and compared in...
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Value of Age Diversity – Declarations and Practice in Polish Organizations
PublicationThe present article relates to management of age diverse teams in organisations and enterprises located in Poland. Managing diversity is an active and conscious process leading not only to a lack of discriminatory conduct but above all to making full use of the potential of the team. The potential resulting from the diversity of knowledge, skills and experience. The diversity of the age of the team members is in fact a differentiation...
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Znaczenie różnorodności w wirtualnej współpracy
PublicationRóżnorodność jest jedną z podstawowych cech zespołów wirtualnych. Odnosi się ona do geograficznego rozproszenia członków zespołu, różnic stref czasowych, w których pracują, zróżnicowania narodowogo i kulturowego, ale również do pracy dla różnych organizacji, pełnienia różnych ról zespołowych o odpowiedzialności za różne części realizowanego projektu. Artykuł dotyczy najważniejszych wymiarów różnorodności istotnych dla wirtualnej...
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Magdalena Szuflita-Żurawska
PeopleHead of the Scientific and Technical Information Services at the Gdansk University of Technology Library and the Leader of the Open Science Competence Center. She is also a Plenipotentiary of the Rector of the Gdańsk University of Technology for open science. She is a PhD Candidate. Her main areas of research and interests include research productivity, motivation, management of HEs, Open Access, Open Research Data, information...
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Identification of the Agile Mindset and Its Comparison to the Competencies of Selected Agile Roles
PublicationIn this paper we present the results of the identification and evalua-tion of the elements of an agile mindset as well as its comparison to the compe-tence models for the roles of Scrum Master, Product Owner and agile analyst. We have identified 70 unique agile mindset elements from literature and 5 in-terviews with experts. Based on an opinion survey among 52 agile practitioners we evaluated the importance of 26 selected elements...
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Preferences Towards Working in Culturally Diverse Teams at Different Stages of the Entrepreneurial Process
PublicationAs entrepreneurial teams become prevalent, it is important to study factors related to their creation and effectiveness. The goal of the current research was to analyze preferences towards working in a multicultural team (MCT) versus a single culture team (SCT) at different stages of the entrepreneurial process. The study involved students originating from various cultures with previous experience in both SCTs and MCTs as participants....
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Attributes of Entrepreneurial Teams as Elements of a Mental Model
PublicationAn entrepreneurial team can be defined as a small group of individuals holding ownership or control positions who create or develop an entrepreneurial venture and have shared commitments towards each other. Entrepreneurial teams start numerous new ventures or affect the performance of firms due to their social capital based on some characteristic attributes. The mental models of teams refer to internal, organised representation...
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Tacit Knowledge Sharing and Personal Branding. How to Derive Innovation From Project Teams?
PublicationInnovation, relationships, cooperation, and knowledge are key factors which determine a competitive advantage in the networked economy. A network serves as a contemporary form of market process coordination. Network economy, according to the idea of prosumerism, is founded on collaboration of individual creators based on a network of values instead of hierarchical dependencies. Another feature of a network is that it imposes symmetry...
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The preferable ways of decision-making in IT teams
PublicationSoftware development team collaboration requires various decisions regarding essential aspects of a project’s progress. General and particular decision-making models are considered, and their main aspects such as team types, problem solving categories, and decision-making ways are analyzed. The research concerns representative groups of IT specialists and their preferences in decision-making are investigated. Four possible cases were...
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A modified hat problem
PublicationThe topic of our paper is the hat problem in which each of n players is randomly fitted with a blue or red hat. Then everybody can try to guess simultaneously his own hat color by looking at the hat colors of the other players. The team wins if at least one player guesses his hat color correctly, and no one guesses his hat color wrong; otherwise the team loses. The aim is to maximize the probability of a win. There are known many...
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Teaching High Performance Computing Using BeesyCluster and Relevant Usage Statistics
PublicationThe paper presents motivations and experiences from using the BeesyCluster middleware for teaching high performance computing at the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdansk University of Technology. Features of BeesyCluster well suited for conducting courses are discussed including: easy-to-use WWW interface for application development and running hiding queuing systems, publishing applications as services...
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Attitudes towards Collaboration in Multicultural Teams in the opinion of Polish and Chinese Students
PublicationThe main goal of this paper is to present results of research that addresses the issue of attitudes towards working in both multicultural and single culture teams among Polish and Chinese students. The relationship between those attitudes and factors that includes individual experiences of research participants as well as characteristics of team tasks was analyzed. The research was conducted with students of one Polish and one...
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Urban Prototyping in CAVE Cooperation Between the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk and the Gdansk University of Technology
PublicationThe paper describes results of cooperation between the Passive Architecture Laboratory at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk and the Immersive 3D Visualization Lab at the Gdańsk University of Technology. The authors as the design supervisors (respectively for a team of architects and a team of IT specialists) present advantages and disadvantages of urban design with use of virtual reality.
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Knowledge management in the processes of project requirements analysis
PublicationAuthors, based on one of popular software project management methods as RUP fo-cused on one of most important discipline in project management as requirements management. Authors decomposed the role of the business analyst and present methodological and realizational processes of knowledge managament in traditional and applied sources of knowledge tied with this role. An experiment was conducted in four project teams of all sizes,...
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Sharing research data across disciplines
PublicationThis monograph is a collection of experiences gathered by the team implementing the Bridge of Data project. However, it is not just a simple summary of the project implementation. It shows and systematizes the substantive and technical works performed by the teams and several issues related to data management itself in various disciplines, represented by members of the scientific team and other researchers from partner universities.The...
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Karolina Sobieraj mgr inż.
PeopleMSc. Karolina Sobieraj graduated in 2018 in the field of Renewable Energy Sources and Waste Management in the specialization of Waste Management, with a scholarship from the Minister of Science and Higher Education for students for outstanding scientific achievements in the 2017/2018 academic year. From October 2019, she started studies at the UPWr Doctoral School in the discipline of environmental engineering, mining and energy....
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Implementacja procesów zarządzania zmianami w przedsiębiorstwie
PublicationImplementacja procesów zarządzania zmianami w przedsiębiorstwie. W artykule przedstawiono sposób implementacji procesów zarządzania zmianami w przedsiębiorstwie w oparciu o IBM Rational Team Concert. Celem artykułu jest wskazanie na przydatność wspierania procesów zarządzania zmianą przy pomocy IBM Rational Team Concert.
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ZARZĄDZANIE ZESPOŁEM WIRTUALNYM JAKO WYZWANIE DLA LIDERA ZESPOŁU
PublicationRozdział dotyczy zarządzania zespołem wirtualnym, który charakteryzuje się rozproszeniem członków zespołu oraz współpracą za pośrednictwem technologii informacyjnej. Tak funkcjonujące zespoły nakładają na lidera dodatkowe wyzwania związane z koniecznością kompensowania braku bezpośredniego kontaktu oraz samodzielnością poszczególnych osób w zespole. Przedstawiono najważniejsze zadania, które podnoszą efektywność zarządzania zespołem...
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Developing competences for cooperation in international teams - tools and methods
PublicationThe article presents the training methods that can be used to develop intercultural competences which are extremely important while working in intercultural teams. The mentioned methods like: case-studies, collaborating, role-play simulations, team working, video presentations and others are presented on the basis of authors’ experiences while teaching the international groups of students at Faculty of Management and Economics...
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Model of management of knowledge bases in the information technology evaluation environment
PublicationThe paper presents the model of management of knowledge bases in multi-agent system for evaluation of information technologies (IT_MAS). Such system is being developed in Gdansk Uni-versity of Technology by Information Technology Management Team. Multi-agent system is supposed to support manager level specialists during decision processes when there is identified need to buy or change any information technology. The main goal of...
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Intercultural Challenges in Virtual Teams
Publication: Virtual teams are usually geographically dispersed and consist of members from different countries and cultures. They influences internal communication processes and can cause personal conflicts, misunderstandings or lack of trust. Intercultural diversity is also significant for goal setting and team effectiveness. The aim of this article is to check if virtual team members appreciate the cultural diversity or rather suffer from lack...
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Trust, Collaborative Culture and Tacit Knowledge Sharing in Project Management–a Relationship Model
PublicationThe aim of this research is to study the relationship between Trust, Collaborative Culture, and Tacit Knowledge Sharing in Project Management as a source of Team Creativity in the context of delivering value through knowledge. For this purpose authors conducted a study of 514 Polish professionals with different functions and experience in managing projects in construction industry. The data collected during the study has been analysed...
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The congruence of mental models in entrepreneurial teams – implications for performance and satisfaction in teams operating in an emerging economy
PublicationPurpose – The paper aims to explore the relationship between the congruence of mental models held by the members of entrepreneurial teams operating in an emerging economy (Poland) and entrepreneurial outcomes (performance and satisfaction). Design/methodology/approach – The data obtained from 18 nascent and 20 established entrepreneurial teams was analysed to answer hypotheses. The research was quantitative and was conducted using...