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Factors Affecting the Intention to Adopt Big Data Technology : A Study Based on Financial Services Industry of Sri Lanka 影响企业采用大数据技术意愿的因素——基于斯里兰卡金融服务业的研究

2018 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon) Pub Date : 2018-05-01 DOI: 10.1109/MERCON.2018.8421917

D. Mahesh, S. Vijayapala, S. Dasanayaka

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引用次数: 5

Numerical Simulation of Suspension Biomass Combustor with Two Chambers 悬浮式双腔生物质燃烧室的数值模拟

2018 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon) Pub Date : 2018-05-01 DOI: 10.1109/MERCON.2018.8421947

D. Wickramasinghe, M. Narayana, A. Amarasinghe

引用次数: 4

A New Approach to Predict the Porosity of Pervious Concrete at Its Fresh State 透水混凝土新状态孔隙率预测的新方法

2018 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon) Pub Date : 2018-05-01 DOI: 10.1109/MERCON.2018.8421982

A. Kariapper, D. Nanayakkara

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引用次数: 0

Log Periodic Antenna Based Partial Discharge Detector for Condition Monitoring of High Voltage Insulators 基于对数周期天线的高压绝缘子局部放电检测器

2018 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon) Pub Date : 2018-05-01 DOI: 10.1109/MERCON.2018.8421927

H. De Zoysa, M. G. D. Madushani, G. Siriwardhana, K. U. N. S. S. Wijethunge, J. R. Lucas, R. Samarasinghe

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引用次数: 1

Clustering Sinhala News Articles Using Corpus-Based Similarity Measures 使用基于语料库的相似性度量聚类僧伽罗语新闻文章

2018 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon) Pub Date : 2018-05-01 DOI: 10.1109/MERCON.2018.8421890

P. Nanayakkara, Surangika Ranathunga

引用次数: 9

Development of a Vibration Energy Harvesting Device Using Piezoelectric Sensors 基于压电传感器的振动能量收集装置的研制

2018 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon) Pub Date : 2018-05-01 DOI: 10.1109/MERCON.2018.8421913

W. Jayarathne, W. A. T. Nimansala, S. Adikary

引用次数: 18

Technical, Environmental and Economic Feasibility of Introducing Added Storage to Run of River Mini Hydro Plants to Improve Dispatchability 江河小型水电站增建蓄能提高调度能力的技术、环境和经济可行性

2018 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon) Pub Date : 2018-05-01 DOI: 10.1109/MERCON.2018.8421907

K.E. Kishani, A. de Alwis, M.K.S. Dimithra, K. De Silva, H.Y. Ranjit Perera, W. Wijayapala

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引用次数: 1

Effect of Fly Ash on Self-healing of Cracks in Concrete 粉煤灰对混凝土裂缝自愈的影响

2018 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon) Pub Date : 2018-05-01 DOI: 10.1109/MERCON.2018.8421952

Kc Ratnayake, S. Nanayakkara

引用次数: 2

Adopting Design Thinking Practices to Satisfy Customer Expectations in Agile Practices: A Case from Sri Lankan Software Development Industry 在敏捷实践中采用设计思维实践以满足客户期望:来自斯里兰卡软件开发行业的案例

2018 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon) Pub Date : 2018-05-01 DOI: 10.1109/MERCON.2018.8422006

W.M.D. Ruchira Prasad, G. Perera, K. V. Jeeva Padmini, H. D. Dilum Bandara

{"title":"Adopting Design Thinking Practices to Satisfy Customer Expectations in Agile Practices: A Case from Sri Lankan Software Development Industry","authors":"W.M.D. Ruchira Prasad, G. Perera, K. V. Jeeva Padmini, H. D. Dilum Bandara","doi":"10.1109/MERCON.2018.8422006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MERCON.2018.8422006","url":null,"abstract":"While the application of agile principles leads to better project success, some projects still fail due to insufficient understanding of client’s exact requirements. Agile teams have recently started adopting Design Thinking (DT) practices to better understand what is in customers’ mind. We explore suitable DT practices to satisfy customer expectations in agile teams using inductive reasoning. We first formulated a conceptual framework based on a literature review. We then conducted a set of interviews with fifteen domain experts from ten IT service organizations. Interview findings were then analyzed using the Straussian grounded theory. Customer journey, story mapping, prototypes, POC, and customer profiling were determined to be the most suitable methods to identify the needs of customers. Moreover, practicing human-centered approach through workshops, discussions, team communication, and end-user interaction through UAT were also identified to be effective. We further classified the best practices into five categories as customer’s real need identification, transforming customer’s real needs into pilot solutions, visualizing the pilot solution for customer feedback, idea generation for the pilot solution, and brainstorming. Based on these findings, we also derived a framework to achieve customer satisfaction through the adoption of DT in agile-base projects.","PeriodicalId":6603,"journal":{"name":"2018 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon)","volume":"29 1","pages":"471-476"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85973098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 8

Analysis on Centrality Index of Air Network 航空网络中心性指数分析

2018 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon) Pub Date : 2018-05-01 DOI: 10.1109/MERCON.2018.8422001

Sameera Prasani, Anuja Fernando

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引用次数: 1