Grounded Theory (GT) has proved an extremely useful research approach in several fields
including medical sociology, nursing, education and management theory. However, GT is a …

One source of software project challenges and failures is the systematic errors introduced by
human cognitive biases. Although extensively explored in cognitive psychology …

Creativity has been a growing topic in the ACM community since the 1990s; however, no
clear overview of this trend has been offered. We present a thorough survey of 998 creativity …

Traditionally, software architecture is seen as the result of the software architecture design
process, the solution, usually represented by a set of components and connectors. Recently …

Product design is one of the most important factors to introduce the circular economy model.
In this discipline, the decisions made influence the whole life cycle of the product, since the …

Cobbler's children do not wear shoes. Software engineers build sophisticated software but
we often cannot find the needed information and knowledge for ourselves. Issues are the …

One of the most influential descriptions of design activity emphasizes how problems and
solutions “co-evolve.” This concept has somehow escaped critical review and cross …

Persona, an archetypical user, is increasingly becoming a popular tool for Software
Engineers to design and communicate with stakeholders. A persona is a representative of a …

Data analytics systems (DASs) with big data capabilities have started playing a promising
role in online service ecosystems and large-scaled interconnected systems of many …

Software engineering research and practice are hampered by the lack of a well-understood,
top-level dependent variable. Recent initiatives on General Theory of Software Engineering …