Development Team Research Articles

Team and leadership training in medical students

The effectiveness of health care depends on core knowledge and competencies such as professional approach, team building, and leadership skills. A qualified doctor has to be a member of the health-care team and a leader of the health-care team at times. The ability to adapt as a team member and lead the team are two different roles to which medical students should be exposed at the beginning of the course. Medical students are subjected to a foundation course in their 1st year, which includes various topics such as ethics, professionalism, and team and leadership skills. However, these students are young adults directly entering medical college from school, and specific topics can be sensitized in a gamified/activity-oriented mode to improve learning. This review focuses on these gamified/activity-oriented methods to teach team and leadership skills to students straight from school.

Building Research Skills Using Digital Educational Technologies

Change in social demands requires knowledge and skills that can be applied across disciplines. Professionals who can analyse problems, think critically, solve problems, communicate effectively, and take leadership are essential to meet new challenges in today's society. In this context, not only the area of expertise is important, but also the ability to think and learn, communicate and collaborate. Tackling complex interdisciplinary challenges requires professionals trained in creative thinking, problem solving, self-learning, team building, and other high skills. Among them, research skill is obligatory. Its development is important especially for future teachers. The ability to find new information and apply new methods for teaching children in school forms an integral part of the teacher's competence. In the context of distance learning, the development of such skills is fulfilled using digital technologies. The purpose of the study is to investigate the impact of digital technologies on the development of research skills of future primary school teachers. In this study, methods such as analysis, synthesis, survey, and case study were used. The study was conducted in the context of online learning at the Faculty of Pedagogy by students of the educational programme 6 В01 301 "Pedagogy and methods of primary education" based on the Buketov Karaganda State University. This study found that students acquired research and creative thinking skills through an open interprofessional distance learning course with digital adoption. This will increase the effectiveness of training and develop a new programme with the inclusion of digital technologies for higher educational institutions of the country.

Design team formation using self-assessment and observer-assessment techniques: mapping practices in a global network of universities

Abstract Design engineering education is increasingly challenge-based, which requires educators to form cohesive student teams capable of delivering desired outcomes while fostering learning and collaboration. An example is an international network in which students from different global universities collaborate. Student teams work on researching the problem space, re-framing their challenge and producing multiple prototypes. The challenge for the teaching teams is to be able to form multiple cohesive teams out of a pre-selected group of highly motivated students. Because of the exclusive nature of this educational program, it is a suitable case study for exploring student design team formation practices. The aim is to identify the methods, tools, theoretical underpinnings, challenges and limitations of student team formation. We interviewed teachers from seven universities about their practices. The interviewees had several years of experience in team building. The interviews were analyzed to contrast practices across universities as well as to the team formation literature. Our findings show that mixed methods that combine self-assessments and observer-assessment methods are the preferred means of forming teams. Our findings also show that current practices have evolved over time through trial and error, and are only partially grounded in different literatures and not necessarily in team formation literature.

Fostering team dynamics in university sport science student: a low-constraint social identity intervention

Traditionally, improving group dynamic has relied on cohesion and team building (TB) interventions. However, the time-intensive nature of TB interventions poses challenges for their implementation and effectiveness. Acknowledging the significance of the Social Identity Approach (SIA) in shaping group dynamic, this study aims to propose an enlightened TB intervention tailored for task-oriented groups. A total of 741 sports science students (Mage = 19.65; SD = 1.43; female = 187) participated in a 45-minutes intervention, based on an experimental scenario involving inter-group competition, forming 19 teams with stakes for the winners and losers. The identity group underwent a three-step intervention, including defining team boundaries, discussing team desirability and values, and creating a visual team identity symbol. The control group received a theoretical course on social identity theories. Results demonstrated a significant improvement in group belonging, ingroup ties, and cognitive centrality compared to the control group. The findings support the interest of a social identity approach for teams with demanding schedules to initiate preliminary work targeting optimal Group dynamic.

AMANDA (Your Plant Monitoring Application) Implementation Android Application Program Project Management Using Agile Scrum Method and Trello

Software development is closely related to several Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) processes. PT Inamas Sintesis Teknologi (INASTEK) is committed to helping employees work easier through Internet of Things (IoT) based technology. This research aims to manage a project for making your Plant Monitoring Application (AMANDA) which can be accessed via a smartphone. This research method uses agile scrum which can adapt to user needs which can be developed repeatedly and the Trello application as an archive of sprint data for each division. The results of this study are the AMANDA application which is able to monitor and control strawberry plants in real-time which is equipped with a menu of temperature, humidity, ec meter, ph meter, water level, soil moisture, liquid temp, co2 level, water pump, nutrient pump, pump pH, sample pump, plant pump, and pipe valve with 3 second delay. Work on this application development project with a duration of 3.5 months and a total cost of Rp. 13,999,891 involving PT INASTEK as product owner, Product Management Division as scrum master, and Engineering Division as development team. With the AMANDA application, it can help PT. INASTEK in developing the projects they have.

Prodrugs as empowering tools in drug discovery and development: recent strategic applications of drug delivery solutions to mitigate challenges associated with lead compounds and drug candidates.

The delivery of a drug to a specific organ or tissue at an efficacious concentration is the pharmacokinetic (PK) hallmark of promoting effective pharmacological action at a target site with an acceptable safety profile. Sub-optimal pharmaceutical or ADME profiles of drug candidates, which can often be a function of inherently poor physicochemical properties, pose significant challenges to drug discovery and development teams and may contribute to high compound attrition rates. Medicinal chemists have exploited prodrugs as an informed strategy to productively enhance the profiles of new chemical entities by optimizing the physicochemical, biopharmaceutical, and pharmacokinetic properties as well as selectively delivering a molecule to the site of action as a means of addressing a range of limitations. While discovery scientists have traditionally employed prodrugs to improve solubility and membrane permeability, the growing sophistication of prodrug technologies has enabled a significant expansion of their scope and applications as an empowering tool to mitigate a broad range of drug delivery challenges. Prodrugs have emerged as successful solutions to resolve non-linear exposure, inadequate exposure to support toxicological studies, pH-dependent absorption, high pill burden, formulation challenges, lack of feasibility of developing solid and liquid dosage forms, first-pass metabolism, high dosing frequency translating to reduced patient compliance and poor site-specific drug delivery. During the period 2012-2022, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved 50 prodrugs, which amounts to 13% of approved small molecule drugs, reflecting both the importance and success of implementing prodrug approaches in the pursuit of developing safe and effective drugs to address unmet medical needs.

Approaches in Determining User Story Quality through Requirement Elicitation : A Systematic Literature Review

A survey of 108 agile practitioners revealed that user stories are the most widely used method for capturing requirements. However, user stories can be interpreted differently by different stakeholders, leading to potential misunderstandings within the development team. Additionally, the interconnectedness of user stories poses challenges during the requirement elicitation process. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) of 27 articles about user story elicitation process were selected and these are examined to determine user story quality. This research will provide a comprehensive summary of user story elicitation approaches and their application in addressing user story quality issues. The study will also offer insights into selecting appropriate approaches for resolving challenges in user story requirement elicitation. Finally, most user story elicitation approach primarily focus on addressing the issue of ambiguity.

Automated formation of university R&D teams based on the competence selection algorithm

The paper discusses the possibility of increasing the effectiveness of strategic management of research and development activities in higher education institutions. To achieve this goal, the authors proposed an algorithm for selecting competencies, which allows for the distribution of university employees and students among research and development teams in accordance with their individual competencies for carrying out research and development work. The paper covers the problem statement of competence selection, an overview of natural language processing methods for algorithm development, problematic areas of the algorithm, and prospects for its implementation in university management.

Emergence of creativity in IS development teams: A socio-technical systems perspective

Emergence of creativity in IS development teams: A socio-technical systems perspective

«Все же не получилось великого содружества Ленина со Сталиным»: стенограмма совещания при дирекции Института Маркса-Энгельса-Ленина (ИМЭЛ) по обсуждению научной биографии В. И. Ленина 20 ноября 1940 г.

The purpose of this publication is to introduce into scientific circulation the transcript of the meeting of the Directorate of the Marx Engels Lenin Institute (IMEL) dated November 20, 1940. The published source belongs to the problematic field of the history of historical science at the turn of the 1930s-1940s. The meeting reflected in the document became one of the few known to us "exchanges of views" within the institute on the development of the author's team of the biography of V.I. Lenin. The document complements the plots related to the functioning of the cult of personality of I.V. Stalin and its limits in Soviet historical science; gives an understanding of how the image of a professional revolutionary should appear; reflects the technical nuances that imposed objective restrictions on the author's team during the writing of the biography of V.I. Lenin. The creators of the text found themselves in a certain ideological framework: they were obliged to build the reviewed Lenin's works, focusing on the "Short Course of the history of the CPSU (b)". Separate text inserts and quotations of V.I. Lenin in the text of the biography were subject to the same kind of adjustments. The construction of the image of the leader from the point of view of his human qualities posed a large number of questions to the team of authors concerning the image of a professional revolutionary. How should one comprehend the theoretical heritage of the leader and how to combine it with practice? How should the portrait of V.I. Lenin be given? Is it worth showing the personality through everyday details (through a description of his rest, attitude to nature, etc.) or is it quite possible to limit yourself to showing high culture in the work and modesty of the leader? And is it necessary to set such a goal at all? Ultimately, during the discussion that unfolded during the meeting of the IMEL directorate, the team of authors decided to focus mainly on the political activities of V.I. Lenin, limiting themselves to only rare references to the personal life of a professional revolutionary. The source was identified in the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI) in f. 71. The document is a typewritten original and is published in accordance with modern rules of spelling and punctuation. Obvious shortcomings and a few errors have been corrected in the text. Information about the persons and scientific works mentioned in the source is given in the footnote. An important pre-publication comment updating this source is important. The source is published with banknotes: plots that are insignificant from the point of view of the issues discussed are cut out.

Developing Faith Community Emergency Response Teams Through Simulation.

The development of a volunteer emergency response team is an effective method to mitigate the negative impacts and improve outcomes of health emergencies in faith communities and is supported by faith community nursing scope and standards of professional practice. Conducting simulated emergency drills with a core team of volunteers within one parish supported the confidence and comfort levels of the multidisciplinary group of volunteers, led by a nurse. Simulation and debriefing increased team members' preparedness for physical and mental health emergencies.

Exploring the Construction Path of Characteristic Volunteer Service Teams in “Double First-Class” Universities under the Volunteer Service Framework

Volunteer service, as an important component of the Communist Youth League’s work with youth in “Double First-Class” universities, plays an indispensable role in carrying out ideological and political education and nurturing socialist core values. Currently, volunteer service, primarily driven by social forces, focuses mainly on public welfare-oriented social service projects. The sustainability of volunteer service forces in universities is generally limited, highlighting the urgent need for universities to establish relevant volunteer service systems to meet educational demands. Starting with the definition of characteristic volunteer service teams in “Double First-Class” universities, this article discusses the importance and necessity of building such teams. Additionally, it analyzes and discusses the current status of the construction of characteristic volunteer service teams in “Double First-Class” universities, addressing the related issues. Finally, taking the “Fun Programming into Campus” volunteer service team at Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai) as an example, the article provides suggestions on how to build characteristic volunteer service teams in “Double First-Class” universities. These suggestions are intended to have a certain reference value for further promoting the comprehensive development of characteristic volunteer service teams in “Double First-Class” universities.

A Scenario for a Model of Excellence in Comprehensive Cancer Care.

Cancer is the leading cause of death in Thailand, and the incidence of cancer is increasing substantially. The aim of the research was to develop a scenario for a model of excellence in comprehensive cancer care. Using Ethnographic Delphi Futures Research (EDFR), 30 expert informants in the field of cancer care were selected using the snowball sampling technique. The research tools were an interview guide and questionnaires. Data were transcribed, analyzed, and synthesized to yield a proposed scenario of the model, which was validated by seven qualified persons. The generated scenario for a model of excellence in comprehensive cancer care consisted of seven dimensions. The first five dimensions described excellence in service systems and comprised proactive prevention, early detection, rapid and accurate diagnosis, effective treatment from multidisciplinary teams, and palliative care to improve quality of life. The last two dimensions described supporting systems and comprised informatics technology and continuous research and innovation. The scenario for a model of excellence in comprehensive cancer care can be summarized according to the "3 Ts": transformation of cancer care, team and capacity building, and total quality management.

DevOps for Telehealth Services: Accelerating Deployment and Scalability

The use of telehealth services is increasing rapidly to increase access and delivery of remote medical care. However, there are significant technical barriers to rapid and reliable deployment of these services and their ability to handle high patient volumes. This study looks at how DevOps approaches can benefit telehealth providers and let it to overcome this obstacle. To maximize software development and infrastructure management, DevOps focuses on collaboration between development and IT operations teams. Telehealth platforms can be deployed rapidly while leveraging key DevOps skills such as automation, infrastructure-to-code, monitoring, and continuous integration Studies show that these techniques also improve scalability to meet demand changes. This makes it possible for telehealth providers to deliver digitally enabled care to a larger patient base.

Exploration and Practice of Teaching Team Building for High-level Professional Groups under the Perspective of Human Resource Management

In recent years, our university carries out the construction of provincial high-level professional group project, combining the construction plan of the project, according to the requirements of the connotative development of higher vocational colleges and universities in the new period, as well as the requirements of the tasks related to the construction of teaching team of the two high-level professional groups, exploring the construction of teaching team of the professional groups under the perspective of human resource management with the driving force of “dual-teacher” teaching team, optimizing the structure of the faculty and striving to push forward the acceptance work of the high-level professional groups.

Optimization Analysis of Kindergarten Educational Environment Creation Path in the Field of Informatization Perspective

Abstract With the arrival of the informationization era, optimizing kindergarten education environment has become an important topic. This study aims to explore the optimal path of kindergarten education environment creation under the background of informationization, and to improve the quality and efficiency of education. A comprehensive evaluation method is used to establish an educational environment evaluation index system, combining the optimal and worst method and the minimal and great regret analysis method to evaluate 1044 kindergartens in City A. The results show that the educational environment of kindergartens in City A has been optimized since 2020. The results show that from 2020 to 2023, the kindergarten education environment has been improved in terms of infrastructure, information resources, informationization application, talent team building, and guarantee system. Especially in educational resources, it increased from 0.5384 in 2020 to 0.8964 in 2023.There is a significant difference between urban and rural kindergartens in creating educational environments, and urban kindergartens are significantly better than rural kindergartens in some indicators. The study’s conclusion shows that the application of informationization and the construction of human resources are the keys to improving the educational environment of kindergartens, and it is recommended to strengthen the supervision of academic quality, improve the evaluation system, and promote the integration of urban and rural education.

Considerations Regarding the Inclusion in Working Time of Periods During Which the Worker Participates in Team Building Activities

Considerations Regarding the Inclusion in Working Time of Periods During Which the Worker Participates in Team Building Activities

Strategy for Teachers Management in Binhai School in Xiashan District, Zhanjiang

Focusing on teacher management in private basic education schools in China, this paper makes it clear that the stable development of teachers, as the core resources of the school and the sowers of human civilization, is crucial to the sustainable development of private schools. The authors emphasize that for private schools to achieve long-term development, it is essential to build a team of teachers with strong professional competence and high business standards. Problems in teacher management include insufficient talent pool, unstable team building, unfair salary and remuneration, and unstandardized management system, which originate from the government and social environment as well as the school’s own management level. This article proposes guiding principles for teacher management, which are mainly divided into four aspects: teacher tenure system, teacher training system, teacher incentive mechanism and teacher evaluation system. The article concludes that teachers determine the quality of education and the quality of talents produced, and that private schools must develop good guidelines for teacher management in order to achieve sustainable development. For private schools, teacher management is a project that requires long-term persistence and systematic practice, involving various aspects of work. Given the limited number of years available for the study, it is recommended that guidelines for medium- and long-term teacher management in private basic education schools be further explored in the context of teacher development planning.

Professional well-being of university’s scientific and pedagogical staff

The article presents the results of a survey of the Agrarian University’s scientific and pedagogical staff, which characterize the level of their professional well-being. The theoretical model of professional well-being is developed on the basis of the methodology for assessing professional well-being and updated taking into account modern transformations in the professional activities of scientific and pedagogical staff of agricultural education. Factor analysis of the survey results of 287 scientific and pedagogical workers of the Agrarian University allowed us to empirically present a structural model of professional well-being and justify targeted support programs for employees. In the practice of improving professional well-being, the support of the university administration on the ideological backbone of the team is relevant; the use of psychological support tools for scientific and pedagogical staff, association in working with opinion leaders to increase confidence in the possibilities of professional development; bringing people together in creative innovative projects to increase the level of professional self-realization; developing team building programs taking into account the representation of different generations of scientific and pedagogical staff, supporting mentoring within the framework of departments and scientific schools. The empirical part of the study does not contradict the conclusions of the theoretical analysis of the publications of the science-intensive Scopus database and confirms the relevance of the study.

A study on the path of teacher team building for training field engineers based on symbiosis theory

China proposes to cultivate 200,000 field engineers by 2025, and clearly points out that it is necessary cultivate a team of high-quality technical and skilled talents who are “proficient in operation, have indepth understanding of processes, possess management skills, capable of collaboration, and be able to innovate”. The core of the cultivation lies in deepening the integration of industry and education, school-enterprise cooperation, and deepening and expanding the existing apprenticeship cultivation model. The core of its training mode lies in deepening the integration of industry and education, deepening the school-enterprise cooperation, and expanding the existing apprenticeship training mode. It has been proved that the main constraint to the realisation of the above goal is that a team of qualified teachers has not yet been established. In order to solve this problem, this paper starts from China’s national vocational education field engineer training programme, applies symbiosis theory to vocational education research, further optimizes China’s existing apprenticeship training model, builds a triangular structural model of structured teacher teams for field engineers, and eventually forms a mutually beneficial and win-win collaboration model for all stakeholders to solve the problem of building the required teacher teams for field engineers’ training. The final result is a mutually beneficial collaborative model for all stakeholders.