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What are ethics and privacy issues related to using a DSS? by Daniel Power Editor, DSSResources.com Using a decision support system (DSS) is sometimes associated with making hard choices, contested issues...	DSS Foundations	Dec 20, 2020
What are agile ethical principles? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Agile is founded upon two ethics statements, the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, and the 12 Pri...	DSS Foundations	Aug 14, 2019
Why is ethical behavior especially important for IT professionals? Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin Information technology (IT) professionals are the enablers and "gatekeepers" of our digital society. As the gatek...	DSS Foundations	Jul 14, 2020
What are 12 agile principles? The following 12 Principles are based on the Agile Manifesto. 1. Satisfy the Customer. Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through earl...	DSS Foundations	Jan 19, 2020
What are ethical issues associated with building and using DSS? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Decision support builders and users face ethical challenges and issues. Some people think that bui...	Evaluating DSS Projects	May 10, 2019
What are the agile values and principles? by Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin The Manifesto for Agile Software Development was published in 2001. Seventeen leaders in the field of software...	DSS Foundations	Apr 08, 2020
How should digital ethics impact analytics and data mining? by Ciara Heavin and Daniel J. Power Ethics should guide analytics, data mining, decision support, and decision making. Big data and new analytica...	DSS Foundations	Mar 23, 2019
What IS and what IS NOT essential to be agile? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM We are bombarded by buzzwords, technical jargon, and colorful metaphors in the culture of agile proce...	DSS Foundations	Jul 17, 2019
Can decision support tools help minimize black swan events? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM In decision making and planning, managers are sometimes surprised by unanticipated events. A black sw...	DSS Foundations	Aug 11, 2019
What is solution-focused agile? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Managers, project teams, and consultants should focus primarily on the present and future. We examine the...	DSS Foundations	Aug 02, 2019
How complex is managing? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Management roles are increasingly specialized, management tasks are often complex, and projects have expa...	DSS Foundations	Aug 28, 2019
Are there decision support tools for Competitive Intelligence (CI) tasks? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Managers in an organization compete with managers in other organizations to introduce new products, sell pr...	DSS Applications	Dec 29, 2015
What should an Agile practitioner know and do? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Knowing agile principles and developing an agile mindset are the starting point of becoming agile. An agi...	DSS Foundations	Jul 01, 2019
What policies should govern Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are reaching the point where both organizations and governm...	DSS Foundations	Aug 05, 2020
What are various agile approaches? Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin Information technology/Information Systems professionals have been refining and trying various agile approaches f...	DSS Foundations	Mar 27, 2020
What is best practice for data visualization? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Visualizing data means that we can see relationships if they exist. A visualization is a short cut to un...	DSS Foundations	Dec 23, 2012
Why is a person kept in the decision cycle? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Decision making using data and algorithms has inherent limitations. Decision automation and decision m...	DSS Foundations	Feb 04, 2018
How can ambient intelligence assist people in decision making? by Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin Placing sensors and other computing devices in working and living spaces creates opportunities for real-time c...	DSS Foundations	Aug 06, 2018
What is opportunistic decision making? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM An opportunity is a potential action that if implemented is likely to help attain a desired goal. Som...	DSS Foundations	Apr 23, 2018
What is the theory of decision support systems? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Past practice and experience usually guide computerized decision support development more than theory and g...	DSS Theory	Aug 06, 2005
Can decision support improve surveillance and increase privacy? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Some people assume that computerized decision support can help law enforcement use surveillance to de...	DSS Foundations	Sep 22, 2018
What is the role of an agile coach? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM A job description for an agile coach is evolving and very loosely defined. According to Layton (2012)...	DSS Foundations	Mar 15, 2020
Is data modeling needed for DSS built using no schema big data? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Agile development of analytics and data-driven decision support is not new. Decision support built us...	DSS Foundations	Oct 15, 2018
What are key skills of data-based decision makers? by Ciara Heavin and Daniel J. Power Decision making habits are often learned by trial and error. Decision making skills should be learned through...	DSS Foundations	Mar 18, 2018
Is Scrum useful for creating decision support? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Decision support has expanded to new tasks and analysts and developers have incorporated new technolog...	DSS Foundations	Jul 09, 2019
Can decision support help political leaders make decisions? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM For many years, I have been systematically reading books by and about Herbert Clark Hoover and Henry ...	DSS Foundations	Jan 25, 2014
What is agile project management? Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin Applying agile values and principles to managing a project is commonly identified as Agile Project Management (AP...	DSS Foundations	Mar 15, 2020
What rules should guide DSS user interface design? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com People must interact with a computerized decision support system to use it. The design of the software inte...	Building DSS	Feb 14, 2011
What software can help implement the Basel accords? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Identifying and evaluating software for a very broad purpose like supporting the Basel capital accords (htt...	DSS Foundations	Sep 03, 2011
What is an agile framework for projects? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com An agile framework or methodology guides teams in an iterative and incremental delivery of a project goal...	DSS Foundations	Feb 06, 2020
What are the Scrum Framework fundamentals? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Scrum is an agile framework and structured set of ideas that is intended to help teams collaborate on com...	DSS Foundations	Feb 06, 2020
Why is anticipatory technology decision-making important? by Daniel J. Power Technology change is accelerating and advancing. Technology optimism, a belief that improved technology will always solve more p...	DSS Foundations	Jun 16, 2020
Can computerized decision support reduce cognitive biases in decision making? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Individuals have predictable thinking patterns. Some patterns are positive and others lead to poor choic...	Building DSS	Jan 10, 2019
How can we measure the value and success of agile? Ciara Heavin and Daniel J. Power Agile is a complex, abstract concept and there is no single way that individuals and teams "do" agile. Both of th...	DSS Foundations	Sep 27, 2020
Can DSS enhance sustainability efforts? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Sustainability is the capacity to endure. Computerized decision support can potentially help managers and i...	DSS Foundations	Jul 30, 2012
What should stakeholders expect in an Agile environment? by Ciara Heavin and Daniel J. Power People have expectations that influence behavior. In an organization environment, both internal and external s...	DSS Foundations	Feb 02, 2020
What is logical decision-making? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Many adjectives are used to modify the compound word decision making or decision-making. For example,...	DSS Foundations	Sep 10, 2019
What are key guidelines for decision support user interface design? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM An effective user interface is an important component of any type of information system, but it is ...	DSS Foundations	Dec 22, 2013
What is the evolution of decision support and analytics architectures? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM During the past 70 years as new computing technologies have been developed, the computing architectur...	DSS Foundations	Dec 05, 2018
How can DSS builders reduce resistance to a new system? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com A new decision support system (DSS) may be an incremental change in an existing process, or provide a radi...	Building DSS	Nov 12, 2008
Does the term big data have utility for managers? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Big data is a colorful phrase for a significant change in data capture, retrieval and storage. Each...	Data-driven DSS	Apr 10, 2014
What is data? by Daniel J. Power Data is important. Data is growing rapidly. Approximately 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created each day or 2.5 billion giga...	DSS Foundations	Jan 06, 2020
What skills do data-driven decision makers need? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Decision making habits are often learned by trial and error. Decision making skills are learned throu...	DSS Foundations	Dec 22, 2014
Does an “information culture” encourage adopting and using decision support technologies? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Supposedly, the phenomenon of an “information culture” influences why some organizations adopt in...	DSS Theory	Nov 12, 2017
What can one conclude about becoming agile? Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin Agile behaviors and processes are often better than rigid, bureaucratic ones. Becoming agile is worthwhile. Agile...	DSS Foundations	Aug 06, 2020
What is the factory of the future? Daniel J. Power Ciara Heavin and Shashidhar Kaparthi The "Factory of the Future" (FoF) is a vision of automated production. In some descriptions,...	DSS Foundations	Apr 17, 2020
Why is agile important? Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin Agile hype continues to grow and some see agile as a solution to every problem (cf., Ambroziewicz, 2017; Mandir, ...	DSS Foundations	Jun 22, 2020
How does one become agile? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Learn, do, reflect, and internalize. Agile is not a binary concept, rather each of us, our teams, and our...	DSS Foundations	May 13, 2020
What DSS interface design is 'best' for eliciting values? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM A person-machine interface is central to the effective use of a computerized system like a decision s...	Building DSS	Aug 17, 2014
What is ACID and BASE in database theory? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Data-driven and document-driven decision support systems derive functionality from data stores and da...	DSS Foundations	Oct 12, 2013

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