• A Vision on the Evolution of Perceptions of Professional Practice: The Case of IT 

      Casado-Lumbreras, Cristina ; Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo; Soto-Acosta, Pedro (International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals, 04/2015)
      Human factor is the element that produces more deviations in the costs of information technology (IT) projects. Recently, a gap between the competences required from the IT industry and the competences taught in the computer ...
    • Global Software Development and Quality Management: A Systematic Review 

      Mishra, Deepti; Mishra, Alok; Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo; Casado-Lumbreras, Cristina (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2013)
      This paper presents a systematic literature review of global software development (GSD) and quality management aspects. The main focus is to highlight the current research and practice direction in these areas. The results ...
    • Mitigating issues in global software developments by means of mentoring 

      Casado-Lumbreras, Cristina ; Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series CompSysTech 2015, 06/2015)
      In knowledge intensive organizations mentoring has emerged as an efficient practice for the development of these personnel. In this scenario, software development has evolved in the previous years due to the impact of ...
    • Online coaching in thesis supervision: A qualitative study 

      Casado-Lumbreras, Cristina ; Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series TEEM 2014, 10/2014)
      Students of online graduate or undergraduate programs are also needed of master or bachelor thesis to get their diplomas. In most of the cases, directors and students must face these processes online. However, despite the ...
    • Productivity Measurement in Software Engineering: A Study of the Inputs and the Outputs 

      Hernández-López, Adrián; Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo; Soto-Acosta, Pedro; Casado-Lumbreras, Cristina (International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach, 01/2015)
      Productivity measurement is constructed by the measure of tree categories of elements: inputs, outputs and factors. This concept, which started being used in the manufacturing industry, has been also a research topic within ...
    • Providing knowledge recommendations: an approach for informal electronic mentoring 

      Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo; Casado-Lumbreras, Cristina ; Soto-Acosta, Pedro; Misra, Sanjay (Interactive Learning Environments, 03/2014)
      The use of Web 2.0 technologies for knowledge management is invading the corporate sphere. The Web 2.0 is the most adopted knowledge transfer tool within knowledge intensive firms and is starting to be used for mentoring. ...
    • Software Development Outsourcing: Challenges and Opportunities in Nigeria 

      Casado-Lumbreras, Cristina ; Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo; Ogwueleka, Francisca N; Misra, Sanjay (Journal of Global Information Technology Management, 2014)
      In recent years, several emergent regions have become software development sourcing countries. This article investigates the possibilities of sub-Saharan Africa as a sourcing destination in the software field. To find out ...
    • Towards an ontology for psychological disorders 

      Rodríguez-González, Alejandro; Álvarez-Rodríguez, José María; Casado-Lumbreras, Cristina ; Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo (International Journal of Metadata Semantics and Ontologies, 01/2012)
      Psychological diagnosis is the process by which mental health professionals determine if problems that affect a person meet all the specific criteria for a psychological disorder. In recent years, decision support systems ...