This paper examines the critical role political processes play in small organizations ’ software maintenance. To identify political processes, a case study involving two projects (a successful and a failed project) was conducted in a small organization. Analysis of data from the case studies

cation of current processes of social transformation, thus providing theoretical meaning to the ideal type of the network society. I hope the reader will be benevolent enough to use what s/he nds useful in this effort, and discard the rest. I also hope that we all end up adopting the notion of disposable

As this master thesis marks the end of my studies at Delft University of Technology, I would like to use this opportunity and thank everyone who has influenced my two-year journey. Those last two years have not been easy. In fact, it has been the most challenging, stressful, and at the same time- the most inspiring, productive, and exciting journey. Journey, which has completely changed my life and has prepared me for new challenges and opportunities. I owe a very special debt to the ex president of Georgia – Mikheil Saakashvili, for initiating a scholarship program for Georgian students abroad, willing to pursue master’s degree. I would like to thank Mr. Saakashvili for giving me a chance to be one of those students, and for fully sponsoring my studies at TU Delft. I must express special gratitude to my graduation committee for being way more supportive then I could ever imagine. I would like to thank them for all their feedback, support, and encouragement, for being very understanding, and shortly, for making it possible for me to finalize my thesis and to graduate. I would like to acknowledge the selfless help and support of my supervisor – Dr. Huib Aldewereld. His guidance and support encouraged me to be motivated and to keep working on the thesis. I would like to thank him for all his time that he has spent on reading my thesis, on giving me direct comments, and further motivation. I had times when I felt lost in my own thesis, and I was ready to give up, but Dr. Aldewereld always managed to encourage and motivate me. I would like to thank him for arranging meetings (lots of meetings) with me to discuss my progress, whenever I asked for it, despite his very

process, a computer program would randomly assign participants to either the role of singer or observer. Participants played the same animal game as described in Study 3, ostensibly to determine whether they danced or observed. Again, participants kept a record of the animal shown to them, the points

or political… The relevance of the study programme … It is clearly recognised both by national and international institutions that there is a need to increase the competence and capacity that can contribute to a positive development process. In Norwegian development cooperation, this aspect has been given high

improvement projects since 1999. The proposed process engineering and the PRO2PI approach aim to guide the software intensive industry, specially small software intensive organizations, in the establishment of relevant, feasible, opportunistic, systemic, representative, traceable, specific and dynamic process

take advantage of the potential of the new computer age. This missing link is the underdeveloped and underfunded state of our simulation and application software developement efforts. The role of these activities has internationally long been recognized, e.g. in the NSF report Computation As a Tool

maintenance, the role of code smells on the overall system maintainability was relatively small. Of the total set of maintenance problems, only about 30% were related to files containing code smells. The majority of maintenance problems were not directly related to the source code at all, such as lack

(not unique to us, except for the arts data), the anti-hierarchical and libertarian political consequences of cultural membership is an indication that members in cultural associations in countries like Spain, Portugal, or Poland find in these organizations an outlet providing a critical distance from

Design for assembly (DFA), a methodology which improves the manufacturability of assembled products, has gained significant attention in recent years. DFA serves a critical role in reengineering existing products and in supporting effective design and development of new products. The increased