Supporting crowd-funded agile software development projects using contingent working: Exploring Big Data from participatory design documentation and interviews

摘要

Designing an effective organisational architecture for an undertaking can be considered essential to its success. The way an organisation is designed - or otherwise appears to its workers - will affect the extent to which those workers associated with it can be effective at their jobs. This chapter undertakes a case study using Big Data from a project called "QPress" that was run by an organisation that is based around contingent working and inter-professionalism. Important things drawn from the data collected from the study include the importance of the Cloud to distance working, such as teleworking; the identity of the organisation and how workers relate to it; as well as what factors assist or inhibit worker motivation. The study concludes that the organisational structure of the organisation investigated - where different firms perform different tasks could be seen as best practice in supporting inter-professional environments.