Dr Paul Ralph
PhD (Management Information Systems) - University of British Columbia
Lecturer
Department
Management Science
Research Interests
Software Project Management; Design Science
Current Research
My research program aims to improve software development methods, tools and practices by studying designers and their projects using a medley of qualitative, quantitative and conceptual research methods.
Profile
I assist local and international firms with improving their design processes and project management methods, and with transitioning from conventional to Agile approaches to software development. My past clients include the Vancouver Olympic Committee, PartnerPedia and The Gardiner Institute.
Publications
- Ralph P, 2010, 'Toxic concepts in systems analysis and design: the systems development lifecycle'
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View PDF - Ralph P, 2010, 'Comparing two software design process theories', 5th International Conference, DESRIST (St Gallen, Switzerland) - 2010
View details - Ralph P and Wand Y, 2009, 'A proposal for a formal definition of the design concept', in Design Requirements Workshop, Lecture Notes on Business Information Processing, Springer-Verglag, Berlin, pp. 103-136
View details - Ralph P and Wand Y, 2008, 'A teleological process theory of software development', Journal of the Association of Information Systems Theory Development Workshop, International Conference on Information Systems (Paris) - 2008
View details - Ralph P and Parsons J, 2007, 'Addressing challenges in inferring preferences from current-session data', Third Statistical Challenges in eCommerce Research Symposium, CECR (Connecticut) - 2007
View details - Ralph P and Parsons J, 2007, 'Generating effective recommendations by exploiting viewing time and item attributes', The Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology Conference, DESRIST (California) - 2007
View details - Ralph P and Wand Y, 2007, 'Towards a formal definition of design', The Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology Conference, DESRIST (California) - 2007
View details - Ralph P and Wand Y, 2007, 'An ontology of design concepts', Journal of the Association of Information Systems Theory Development Workshop, International Conference on Information Systems (Montreal) - 2007
View details - Ralph P and Parsons J, 2006, 'A framework for automatic online personalization', The Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (Hawaii) - 2006
View details - Ralph P, Parsons J and Gallagher K, 2004, 'Using viewing time to infer user preference in recommender systems', AAAI Workshop in Semantic Web Personalization (California) - 2004
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