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A common baseline is that Agile-based software development is conducted by co-located teams working in well-equipped office workspaces. The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have cast new light on those assumptions. Suddenly, developers were no longer co-located with their teams and their well-equipped workspaces were vacant. How did the lockdowns, and the speed in which they were implemented, affect developers and development efforts? Did the lockdowns lead to diminished product quality? How was employee productivity impacted? A survey questionnaire was created to answer these questions. © 2022 IEEE Computer Society. All rights reserved.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the most unprecedented crises of recent decades with a global effect on society and the economy. It has triggered changes in the behavior and consumption patterns of both final consumer and industrial consumers. The consumption patterns of industrial consumers are also influenced by changes in consumer values, environmental regulations, and technological developments. One of the technological highlights of the last decade is biocomposite materials being increasingly used by the packaging industry. The pandemic has highlighted the problems and challenges of the development of biocomposites to adapt to new market conditions. This study aims to investigate the industrial consumption of biocomposite materials and the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the main stages of the value chain of sustainable industrial consumption of biocomposites. The research results reveal there is a growing interest in the use of biocomposites. Suppliers and processors of raw materials are being encouraged to optimize and adapt cleaner production processes in the sustainable transition pathway. The study highlights the positive impact of COVID-19 on the feedstock production, raw material processing, and packaging manufacturing stages of the value chain as well as the neutral impact on the product manufacturing stage and negative impact on the retail stage. The companies willing to move toward the sustainable industrial chain have to incorporate economic, environmental, social, stakeholder, volunteer, resilience, and long-term directions within their strategies.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to widespread adoption of virtual teams (VTs), the prevalence of which had already been increasing steadily. However, studies show that VTs often fail to meet their potential, highlighting the centrality of trust to their success. While trust is important at the team member level and the focus of much of the extant research, it also underpins effective virtual leadership. Following a review of VT and trust literatures, research conducted within three global technology companies across Europe, Middle East, and Africa is used to provide insights into trust development in virtual leader- member dyads. These highlight leaders' behaviours that can both demonstrate their own trustworthiness to VT members and their trust of VT members. These behaviours are integrated into a framework for enabling high trust VT leadership which emphasises member-centricity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
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The Covid-19 pandemic has changed many things in our activities, including how we work. Almost all countries, including Indonesia, require remote working or working from home, including technology companies. Many technology companies use Scrum as a framework for their software development. Because of Scrum framework flexibility, organizations with different work cultures can adapt. However, the Covid-19 pandemic forced the team to work remotely and adjust to this separation situation. In this research, we want to determine how this situation influences software development activities in Scrum-based software development in Indonesia. We interview Scrum Experts in three leading e-commerce companies in Indonesia during the pandemic in 2021. Experts found no significant obstacles or impacts when running Scrum during the Covid-19 pandemic remote working. As the research result, the organization needs to consider technical and non-technical aspects to maintain the Scrum team's productivity during the Covid-19 pandemic. Based on interview and survey, as many as 37% of expert Scrum Team state that the product backlog management needs attention because most Scrum teams don't regularly manage the tasks on the product backlog item, so old tasks are drowned out with lots of new tasks added to the list. The Scrum team must also pay more attention to self-discipline to stay focused while working from home. As many as 73% of expert Scrum Team express that the Indonesian E-Commerce Companies must also provide the Scrum team with self-development initiatives to remain motivated. © 2022 ACM.
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Supply management plays an important role in the business. In our research, we make the introduction with research background in COVID-19, in the APPLE Inc. and large amount of data is constructed. Several methods are used during the task, for example, literature review, data analysis, quantitative analysis and comparative analysis. The research shows the current problems faced by electronic technology companies, which are instability of the supply chains, material shortage and regional policies, after which the research reasons for deep causes and provides feasible improvements of the company, which are production concentration, purchase limit strategy, online commodity physical models, price reduction, and comprehensive capital. © 2022 ACM.
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This study aims to (1) critically analyze the measures imposed by the US government in the Covid-19 crisis in comparison with the measures from the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), to (2) assess the impact of the crisis on the US capital market and to (3) find out what is the role of large technology companies in the US stock market rebound. We find that in the Covid-19 crisis the US government responded faster, in more organized manner, and its interventions were of greater scale, compared to the measures imposed in the GFC. We find increased volatility of the S&P 500 Index in the period after the Covid-19 outbreak than before. Index performs better in the Covid-19 crisis compared to the GFC, with significantly lower volatility. The Covid-19 shock caused a “V-shaped” movement in the Index with quick fully recovery, while the general pattern during the GFC is “U-shaped”, with prolonged recovery. We also find that the quick mid-term rebound of the S&P 500 Index in the Covid-19 crisis is more due to the strong performance and blooming stock prices of the six technology companies from the S&P 500 Index and less due to the actual recovery of the overall market. Implications are in increased risk associated with investments in S&P 500 Index replicating mutual funds. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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BitCoin is a new digital currency that turned out to be quite interesting for the financial market. This digital currency has, in diverse manners, exhibited unique qualities in comparison with other financial assets, which certainly means that BitCoin investors may face more concerns and tradeoffs than those who choose more traditional investment opportunities. The present research paper primarily aims to show the importance of the BitCoin currency in the global markets and to highlight its relationship with the share prices of technology companies. It also tries to investigate and identify the most significant fluctuations that this sector witnessed in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, with a statistical analysis of ten technology companies during the period extending from 2015 to 2021. The findings of this study allowed concluding that a strong relationship exists between technology company share prices and BitCoin prices. It was also found that these companies greatly benefited from the Covid-19 pandemic and increased their profit rates, particularly information and communication technology companies.