A Program and Project Management Approach for Collaborative University-industry R&amp;D Funded Contracts

Fernandes, Gabriela; Pinto, Eduardo B.; Machado, Ricardo J.; Araújo, Maria Madalena Teixeira de; Pontes, A. J.

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.522

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“…A collaborative environment fosters social interaction between students and diminishes student isolation. Although traditional academic institutions still practice on-campus face-to-face learning, they have come to realise the benefits of collaborative environments (Fernandes, Pinto, Machado, Araújo, & Pontes, 2015).…”

Section: Collaborative Applications and Platformsmentioning

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Insights into the use and affordances of social and collaborative applications for student projects

Bankole

Venter

2017

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The use of social and collaborative computing has the potential of assisting learning and improving the ability to work together as part of a team. Team work is a graduate attribute that students need to acquire before transitioning from university into the workplace. The aim of this exploratory research was to provide insights into the use of social and collaborative applications by Computer Science students, and the emergent affordances student project teams have created with the use of these applications. It answers the questions: What elearning platforms or applications do students use to collaborate for team projects? What technology affordance draws students to use these applications? This study adopts affordance theory as the theoretical framework. Two types of content analysis: conventional content analysis and summative content analysis were used to analyse the data. Data was gathered using a pre-designed questionnaire with the teams during the first semester of 2016. Findings show that the university’s elearning platform is utilised for some of their courses; however students seem to prefer free and open source platforms. Student project teams used applications such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Docs, as well as email messages, to work jointly, and were successfully able to complete their team projects. Four types of technology affordances: communicative-affordance, document share-affordance, course resource-affordance, and integrity-affordance, were identified as being relevant.

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Section: Collaborative Applications and Platformsmentioning

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Insights into the use and affordances of social and collaborative applications for student projects

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Venter

2017

SACJ

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“…In fact, each IC-HMI organization role has always a representative from Bosch and a representative from UMinho. The governance model proposed is based on a developed methodology especially devoted to program and project management of collaborative University-Industry R&D funded contracts, named as PgPM methodology [32,33].…”

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“…The BM approach adopted in IC-HMI adapted the PDCA cycle into a BM continuous process with also four phases: 'Identify', 'Plan', 'Act', and 'Verify', corresponding to 'Identify expected benefits', 'Plan benefits realization', 'Pursue benefits realization', and 'Transfer and ensure benefits sustainability'. These phases are engaged with the Program and Project Management (PgPM) lifecycle adopted since the IC-HMI 'Program preparation' phase [33], since the linkage between program/project management practices and BM practices is important [1]. This linkage is portrayed in Figure 2.…”

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Planning benefits realization in a collaborative university-industry R&D funded program

Fernandes

Pinto

Araújo

et al. 2017

2017 International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC)

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This paper presents a benefits management (BM) approach adopted during the planning of a collaborative university-industry R&D funded program, named IC-HMI Program, in order to pursue benefits realization. The BM approach embraced four main phases: 'Identify expected benefits'; 'Plan benefits realization'; 'Pursue benefits realization'; and 'Transfer and ensure benefits realization', each one comprising key activities that should be performed with a clear set of outputs to be generated. Particular focus is given to the benefits identification, and to the development of a Benefit Breakdown Structure (BBS), assuming the key role of such a formatting technique to target project benefits. It is the first and critical step in the BM process. Based on a review of literature, and the three research methods adopted during the IC-HMI case study analysis: a set of 33 benefits were identified, which can be used by professionals and academics as a checklist for benefits identification of their own initiatives. Additionally, the BBS implemented in IC-HMI program to qualify and better understand each benefit and its intrinsic properties, can be used to facilitate planning and benefits realization.

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“…The Human-Machine Interface Excellence (HMIExcel) project [26] was sponsored by the consortium between University of Minho (UMinho) and Bosch Car Multimedia Portugal (Bosch). It was designed in order to tackle scientific and technological challenges of Bosch Braga and to obtain recognition of this unit as an International Competence Centre in Human-Machine Interface (HMI).…”

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Using Scrum Together with UML Models: A Collaborative University-Industry R&D Software Project

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Fernandes

Carvalho

et al. 2016

Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2016

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Conducting research and development (R&D) software projects, in an environment where both industry and university collaborate, is challenging due to many factors. In fact, industrial companies and universities have generally different interests and objectives whenever they collaborate. For this reason, it is not easy to manage and negotiate the industrial companies' interests, namely schedules and their expectations. Conducting such projects in an agile framework is expected to decrease these risks, since partners have the opportunity to frequently interact with the development team in short iterations and are constantly aware of the characteristics of the system under development. However, in this type of collaborative R&D projects, it is often advantageous to include some waterfall practices, like upfront requirements modeling using UML models, which are not commonly used in agile processes like Scrum, in order to better prepare the implementation phase of the project. This paper presents some lessons learned that result from experience of the authors in adopting some Scrum practices in a R&D project, like short iterations, backlogs, and product increments, and simultaneously using UML models, namely use cases and components.

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A Program and Project Management Approach for Collaborative University-industry R&D Funded Contracts

Cited by 32 publications

References 25 publications

Insights into the use and affordances of social and collaborative applications for student projects

Insights into the use and affordances of social and collaborative applications for student projects

Planning benefits realization in a collaborative university-industry R&D funded program

Using Scrum Together with UML Models: A Collaborative University-Industry R&D Software Project

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