Usman K. Durrani

Australian University

This paper explores the effect of applying gamification and flipped classroom approaches through our group-based assessment game, the CrossQuestion, in the course of IT in Business. The course teaches basic IT fundamentals and their application in different functional areas of business and management. In Spring 2020-21, we delivered this course thr...

Past studies have shown the efficacy of flipped classrooms and gamification learning approaches. However, we know little about the blend of these learning approaches. This study compares the effectiveness of gamified flipped classrooms (GFC) to traditional classroom (TC) learning ap-proaches. We study two different undergraduate cohorts over six-we...

This paper explores the effect of applying gamification and flipped classroom approaches through our group-based assessment game, the CrossQuestion, in the course of IT in Business. The course teaches basic IT fundamentals and their application in different functional areas of business and management. In Spring 2020-21, we delivered this course thr...

A well-reputed course prepared according to sound instructional design principles and successfully delivered multiple times in a traditional face-to-face classroom mode failed to stimulate students’ motivation to learn in an online delivery mode amidst the COVID-19 outbreak. Therefore, a motivational framework developed according to the processes o...

INTRODUCTION: A well-developed course in accordance with sound instructional design principles and successfully delivered multiple times in a traditional face-to-face classroom mode failed to stimulate students’ motivation to learn in an online delivery mode amidst the COVID-19 outbreak. This paper contributes by presenting a case study on the appl...

This research discusses the effect of big data and Internet technologies on the music industry. Specifically, this paper addresses two research questions; (1) how do modern businesses in the music industry implement the use of Internet technologies and big data to ensure their success in the market, and (2) what are the advantages and drawbacks of...

From the past studies, we know that a well-designed game-based or flipped classroom or gamified flipped classroom learning approaches can enhance student engagement, reduce topic complexity, enable clear task orientation, improve session effectiveness, and increase student satisfaction. We have examined it through our planned course delivery model...

With the shift of computing paradigm from standalone, to parallel, to distributed, to the grid, and now “Cloud Computing”, came new waves of issues, concerns, and challenges and a need to explore more innovative ways to govern software development activities. At present, there is a lack of studies in the area of governance in cloud computing and it...

Software configuration management is a software engineering process that facilitates the governance of software development activities and provides traceability of changes. Traceability and governance are important quality attributes for all types of software development environments. At present no comprehensive traceability model exists that can f...

The Software Configuration Management (SCM) process with its origin in hardware development was first applied to the software development environment in the 1950's. Since then many IT dynamics associated with this process have evolved, such as, software development methodologies, software process improvement standards, computing environments, and o...

The purpose of traceability is to ensure persistent alignment of product knowledge between stakeholders, artifacts, and traceability objects. On the other hand, process knowledge is equally important to ensure a systematic software development process with accurate specification and verifiable quality attributes. Previous studies lacks in presentin...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of Phase 1 of the research and to identify Australian agile software development organizations having such coexistence of agile and software configuration management (SCM) practices. This study employed “organization size” variable to study the phenomenon and used theory of Lean Thinkin...

Based on a web based survey of 158 IT software development practitioners, mostly from different organizations, this paper examines the application of Software Configuration Management (SCM) process in adaptable software development environments. From the literature review six independent variables and five dependent variables were derived to answer...

There have been many studies and examples in the literature separately demonstrating the benefits of Agile software development and Software Configuration Management process to software development organizations. There is, however, a general misconception that these two practice domains cannot coexist in a single environment without compromising th...

There have been many studies and examples in the literature separately demonstrating the benefits of Agile software development (ASD) methods and Software Configuration Management (SCM) process to software development organizations. There is, however, a general misconception that these two practice domains cannot coexist in a single environment, an...

With the shift of computing paradigm from standalone, to parallel, to distributed, to the grid, and now “Cloud Computing”, came new waves of issues, concerns, and challenges and a need to explore more innovative ways to govern software development activities. At present, there is a lack of studies in the area of governance in cloud computing and it...

'Cloud Computing' is the latest IT buzzword representing the next generation of internet computing paradigm. Along with this paradigm shift came the new waves of opportunities and challenges and a need to explore more innovative ways to manage software development lifecycle. At present there is a lack of studies in the area of traceability in cloud...

There is a general misconception on the coexistence of Agile and Software Configuration Management (SCM) practices, and a very little reporting exists about how practitioners can benefit from their coexistence or how such coexistence can improve the organizational capabilities. This paper represent phase one of the research study, with the aim to i...