At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic response, we wrote about 100% distributed working. Since then, we went through a phase of removing COVID restrictions, and now we are in the COVID denial phase. Each of these phases has a different effect on our projects. Impacts of COVID in the different phases During the COVID… Continue reading Managing Projects During this COVID Denial Phase
Gloria J. Miller has been named a Distinguished Contributor to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society, IEEE News Release. The IEEE Distinguished Contributor Program “… awardees have demonstrated technical achievements and contributions that exemplify our goal of leading the global technical community and contributing to the development and application of technology… Continue reading Gloria J. Miller Named as IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributors
The pandemic has shaken everything, and remote work became the new norm for many workers worldwide. The transition from present to virtual teams was relatively quick but often not well prepared. We have now been working remotely long enough to observe that virtual teams can also become demotivated. We may not notice the social and emotional… Continue reading Practical Ways to Motivate Your Team During Remote Work
Gloria J. Miller has a book chapter published by Springer entitled Artificial Intelligence Project Success Factors—Beyond the Ethical Principles in “Information Technology for Management: Business and Social Issues”. It details her paper that was presented at the FedCSIS 2021 conference in September 2021. The individual chapter is available as Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution… Continue reading #AI Project Success — Book Chapter Published
These days, the terminology used for artificial intelligence can include any number of data science sub-fields, including business intelligence, big data analytics, or other decision support systems. Within big data analytics, the technique and method of machine learning can also be a distinguishing factor, e.g., natural language processing, neural networks, computer vision, conversational. As project… Continue reading Data science: BI, Big Data Analytics, AI Competencies
In December 2021, we announced our new game: The Project Win Game™. It is designed to simulate the lived experience in making the decision between agile and traditional/waterfall methodologies while working on a project. It is a serious game. What is a serious game? Most games have in common that you have to follow rules,… Continue reading Serious Games
We noticed people faced a challenge understanding and deciding between agile and traditional/waterfall methodologies on managing projects. Therefore, we created a game to simulate the lived experience of making this decision: The Project Win Game ™. After creating and testing it throughout 2020-2021 we have now a very nice prototype of the game. We are… Continue reading The Project Win Game™ — Simulating Project Management Decision-Making
“Are artificial intelligence and machine learning the same thing?” is one of the most popular search request on Google. So I created this egg as an overview to understand it myself. The goal of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is to create an intelligent computing system to solve complex problems by learning from data. AI does not… Continue reading Are Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning the same thing?
People impacted by algorithms developed in artificial intelligence (AI) and big data projects want fairness, meaning moral or “just” treatment from algorithmic decision-making. However, fairness or the perception of fairness has several subjective components out of the scope of any development project, including pre-established attitudes and emotional reactions to algorithmic outcomes. Moreover, end-users understand, perceive,… Continue reading Connecting Project Teams to Data Driven Decision-Making and Ethical Artificial Intelligence
The algorithms implemented through artificial intelligence (AI) and big data projects are used in life-and-death situations. While research exists to address varying aspects of moral decision-making with algorithms, the definition of project success is not readily available. Nevertheless, researchers place the burden of responsibility for ethical decisions from AI systems on the system developers. Using… Continue reading Best Paper Award at FedCSIS 2021: ‘Moral Decision-Making with Algorithms: Artificial Intelligence Project Success Factors’ by Gloria Miller