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  1-9 of 9 Reviews about "Staffing (K.6.1...)": Date Reviewed
  The People Capability Maturity Model: guidelines for improving the workforce
Curtis B., Hefley W., Miller S., Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 2002. 587 pp.  Type: Book (9780201604450)

The Software Capability Maturity Model (SW-CMM), developed by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), is an established industry standard for assessing and developing business processes in softwar...

Aug 2 2002
  The decline and fall of the American programmer
Mander K. Communications of the ACM 44(7): 43-44, 2001.  Type: Article

Mander is the director of the Computing Laboratory at the University of Kent, Canterbury, England. In this short article, he has written his observation of what has occurred and is occurring since the publication of Ed Yourdon̵...

Oct 1 2001
  Programming interviews exposed: secrets to landing your next job
Mongan J., Suojanen N., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 2000. 254 pp.  Type: Book (9780471383567)

Mongan and Suojanen provide information on the hour-long oral examination faced by people who are interviewing for jobs in programming, development, technical consulting, or any other field that warrants a computer programming intervie...

May 1 2000
  Determinants of MIS employees’ turnover intentions
Igbaria M. (ed), Greenhaus J. Communications of the ACM 35(2): 34-49, 1992.  Type: Article

The authors statistically studied why MIS professionals change jobs. Their analysis was based on an attitude survey of professionals currently working, focusing on the intent to change jobs rather than on actual job changes. They surve...

Aug 1 1993
  Application development center
Hobuss J., Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York, NY, 1991.  Type: Book (9780442003326)

According to the author, the application development center (ADC) is the primary vehicle through which the information systems (IS) department can reap the productivity improvements that are commonly advertised with software developmen...

Jul 1 1992
  The Dynamics of Software Project Staffing: A System Dynamics Based Simulation Approach
Abdel-Hamid T. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 15(2): 109-119, 1989.  Type: Article

This essay will interest software development managers who want an empirical test of Frederick Brooks’s famous “law” that adding staff to a late software project makes it later [1]. Abdel-Hamid seems to ha...

Jul 1 1989
  Managing programming people: a personal view
Metzger P., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1987.  Type: Book (9780135510940)

This book is a light and humorous collection of advice and guidance for the manager of data processing application development projects, liberally sprinkled with anecdotes from the author’s experience. The book is structured ...

Feb 1 1988
  Perceptions of equity, job satisfaction, and intention to quit among data processors
Dittrich J., Couger J., Zawacki R. Information and Management 9(2): 67-75, 1985.  Type: Article

A study of over 1,200 computer systems analysts and computer operators was undertaken to attempt to find factors which affect job satisfaction and intention to quit. The study showed that the perception of equity of treatment (fairness...

Feb 1 1987
  A preliminary investigation of information systems team structures
White K. Information and Management 7(6): 331-335, 1984.  Type: Article

This paper is a step towards understanding the effects of personal characteristics on team effectiveness. The author reviews psychological theories which characterize behavior into distinct types. Prior research indicates that teams of...

Dec 1 1985
 
 
 
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