Problematiken med estimering i projekt inom agil systemutveckling : Analys och undersökning av agil systemutveckling hos SDC

In today’s society, IT-Companies often have a hard time estimating changed requirements. This leads to that the clients’ confidence is negatively affected and is one of the main reasons why this has to be improved. The goal with this study was to find out what the most common problems regarding this issue are in IT-companies that works with agile software development. By analyzing one IT-company through a SWOT- and pareto-analysis the most common problems have been ascertained. The SWOT analysis have been created through interviews with selected employees to get a better understanding of the problems that the IT-company is facing. Furthermore was the pareto-analysis based on a survey that was sent out to many different employees to prioritize the problems. The reason why the survey was sent to different employees was to get a more objective input. The study showed that there was many different problems that needed attention. The most important problems was that the communication towards the client regarding requirements needed to be improved, better communication internally between different departments needed to be established, a method to quickly adapt and estimate change in requirements needed to be implemented and finally a method regarding witch key employees whom need to attend the planning of the program backlog. These problems have then been studied through interviews with other IT-companies and through a literature study. The conclusions that where drawn was that the client needs to be involved and updated through the whole project. Constant monitoring and communication regarding changed requirements needs to be processed and mediated. High standards needs to be set early towards the client in order to obtain as clear an image of the requirements as possible. Many different parties need to attend to the planning process for the program backlog before the start of the project. The client needs to be aware of that changed requirements will arise and that this will lead to that the first estimation may not necessarily be absolute. As long as the client is held up to date as well as participant through the whole project and problems are detected and mediated early, change in requirements should not be a huge problem. This is after all the purpose of being agile.

Psykoterapeuters erfarenheter av att arbeta med transpersoner i psykodynamisk psykoterapi

Hur ska psykoterapeutiskt arbete med transpersoner bedrivas? Bör psykoterapeuten tänka på ett särskilt sätt i mötet med den här patientgruppen? Denna studie har som syfte att undersöka psykodynamiskt orienterade psykoterapeuters erfarenheter av att arbeta med transpersoner. Halvstrukturerade intervjuer gjordes med fem psykoterapeuter verksamma på HBT-hälsan på Södersjukhuset. Intervjuerna analyserades med Tematisk analys. Utfallet blev fyra övergripande teman med fjorton underkategorier: Heterogenitet (Generationsskillnader, Olika engagemang, Komplexitet), Bristande förståelse (Omgivningen förstår inte, Identitetsförvirring, Minoritetsproblematik), Anpassa psykoterapi (Försiktighet, Kroppen, Allians och alliansskapande, Stödsamtal, Interventioner och mål) samt Psykoterapeutens utveckling (Öppenhet, Omvärdering, Utveckling). Resultatet pekar på komplexiteten i behandlingen av en grupp som länge varit osynlig, men som nu har trätt fram. En central utmaning för psykoterapeuten tycks bestå i att anpassa behandlingen, utan att förlora det grundläggande psykoterapeutiska förhållningssättet.

Lärares ledarskap som möjliggörande och begränsande i mötet med ’alla’ barn : En deltagarorienterad studie

The aim of this thesis is to, based on teachers’ experiences, describe and analyse meanings of teachers’ leadership in general, and in relation to children in need of special support in particular. The study was carried out within the tradition of participatory-oriented research, a research circle. The dialogues in the circle were based on the participants’ questions, experiences, interests, and knowledge. The circle included a researcher and nine teachers from the following types of schools: preschool, preschool class, compulsory school, and compulsory school for pupils with learning disabilities. The study is based on an understanding of leadership as a relational practice. Leadership is practised in the interaction between teacher and child. Both parties exert influence over the practice of leadership. A central assumption in the study is that knowledge can develop through and in interactions between people, that knowledge and power are connected, and that knowledge and actions are intertwined. Another central assumption is that learning is a complex phenomenon. In the analysis of the research circle’s dialogues, the following meanings of teachers’ leadership emerge: to facilitate learning and discipline, and to promote different interests. The practice of leadership involves teachers handling complex situations in their interactions with ‘all’ children, i.e. children in need of special support and children without such needs. Leadership is practised between teachers and children, and the teachers have to consider the group of children as a collective in relation to the individual children. At the same time, the teachers have to consider their intentions versus what happens during the interactions. In addition, the teachers have to pay heed to the fact that their own actions and the children’s actions influence one another. Finally, the teachers have to consider the individual child’s ‘best interest’ in relation to the requirements of the policy documents. Furthermore, the results indicate that the practice of leadership is perceived as both unpredictable and, to some extent, predictable at the same time, which adds to the complexity of leadership. The teachers cannot know for sure what the children understand or if the children’s actions facilitate learning. However, the teachers can make certain assumptions about how to practice leadership in order to facilitate learning and discipline in children with different needs. The meanings of leadership were expressed in different ways in the circle’s dialogues; both as enabling and limiting in interactions with children in need of special support. One of the study’s conclusions is that leadership seems to be particularly complex in interactions with children in need of special support. The research circle’s dialogues served to promote a democratic knowledge process. The dialogues were characterised by respect for the participants’ different opinions; however, this does not mean that they were free from power structures.

Lärplattor i matematikundervisningen : En intervjustudie med lärare inom f-3

I och med att det nu finns teknologi som kan ta oss bortom de gränser som våra biologiska förutsättningar sätter uppstod en nyfikenhet för mig kring digitala verktyg i matematikundervisningen. Denna studie riktar sig mot lärare och på användandet av lärplattor i matematikundervisningen. Metoden som användes i undersökningen var en kvalitativ forskningsinriktning med intervjuer av lärare arbetandes inom åldrarna f-3. Fem stycken lärare på fem olika skolor inom Sundsvalls kommun intervjuades. Studien kommer fram till att lärare ser positivt på användandet av lärplattor i matematikundervisningen. Resultatet visar att de intervjuade lärarna anser att det bland annat är viktigt att lärare använder sig av ett tydligt arbetssätt som innehar ett syfte så att elever förstår lärplattornas roll i klassrummet. Lärarna ser att det finns en rad olika för- och nackdelar med lärplattor i matematikundervisningen. Exempelvis menar lärarna att lärplattor bidrar till ett lustfyllt lärande där elever får färdighetsträning och begreppsförståelse. En annan positiv aspekt var att lärarna menade att eleverna får träna samarbetsförmågan när barnen kommunicerar med varandra kring aktiviteterna med lärplattan. Nackdelarna kunde enligt lärarna vara att nätet krånglar, att lärplattor används till fel saker av eleverna, samt att elever inte ser lärplattan som ett undervisningsverktyg utan som en spelkonsol. Vidare upptäcktes en skillnad huruvida i vilken omfattning lärplattor användes utav de intervjuade lärarna. Två av fem lärare använde lärplattan som ett kontinuerligt förekommande hjälpmedel i matematikundervisningen, medan de tre resterande lärarna använde lärplattan som ett komplement.

SIUS-konsulenters upplevelse av arbetet med personer med psykisk funktionsnedsättning

2016-06-02

Diagnosens betydelse : En kvalitativ studie om hur anställda på Arbetsförmedlingen och Försäkringskassan upplever diagnosens betydelse i mötet med funktionshindrade

2016-06-02

Lageroptimering med hjälp av multikriterieanalys : En fallstudie hos KUBALs centrallager

This thesis deals with control of stock in an inventory, focusing on inventory placement. The purpose of this thesis is to reduce the transport distance within the main stock house while gathering inventory. This will be achieved by reconstructing the inventory placement in consideration with how frequently the inventories get picked and mass of the inventory. In particular, the literature and the data that is collected from the company´s business system have laid the foundation for the thesis. In general, interviews and observations also contributed to the data collection. To fulfill the aim and to produce arbitrary results, two issues have been developed regarding which attributes that should determine the position of the inventory in the stock house and how to obtain a more effective inventory structure? The authors have jointly produced a result of suggestions for future inventory placement in terms of picking frequency and weight. Initially a situation analysis was conducted to identify known problems with the inventory´s placement and storage systems. The problems that were identified were that the inventory placement has no consideration regarding picking frequency. To determine the most frequent picked inventory an ABC analysis was conducted. All of the inventories were spread out throughout the whole stock house. To take in account, the additional criterion, which was weight, a multi-criteria analysis was performed in combination with the ABC analysis. The results of the combined analysis provided that the basis for drawing up concepts for future inventory placement. The proposal includes optimized inventory placements in different zones of the most frequently picked inventory with weight as an additional criterion.