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Examining Reward Mechanisms for Effective Usage of Application Lifecycle Management Tools

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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2017)

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Application lifecycle management (ALM) highlights the rules of the road for the entire software ecosystems’ lifecycle. Successful ALM enables clarity around the entire delivery effort, from defining requirements to deploying the software product. One of the challenges in software engineering today is to orchestrate ALM tools to a set of software projects effectively. In particular, it is challenging for software practitioners to continuously fully engage with the tasks that are assigned to them. The goal of this study is to address such situations using a game theoretic approach by utilizing a reward mechanism, which we intent to test in a medium-sized software development organization. Based on a set of game elements, this study proposes an auction mechanism to address human resource allocation and task optimization issues, and consequently tackle the potential problem of software practitioners’ engagement.

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This work was supported, in part, by Science Foundation Ireland grant 13/RC/2094.

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  1. Computer Engineering, Çankaya University, Ankara, Turkey

    Çağdaş Üsfekes & Murat Yilmaz

  2. HAVELSAN A.Ş, Ankara, Turkey

    Çağdaş Üsfekes & Eray Tuzun

  3. School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Paul M. Clarke & Rory V. O’Connor

  4. Lero – the Irish Software Research Centre, Dublin, Ireland

    Paul M. Clarke & Rory V. O’Connor

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Üsfekes, Ç., Yilmaz, M., Tuzun, E., Clarke, P.M., O’Connor, R.V. (2017). Examining Reward Mechanisms for Effective Usage of Application Lifecycle Management Tools. In: Stolfa, J., Stolfa, S., O'Connor, R., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 748. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64218-5_21

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