Making change: Understanding software technology transfer
Shari Lawrence Pfleeger
December 2, 1998
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Making change: understanding software technology transfer
Overview
What do we mean by "technology"?
Redwine and Riddle study (1985)
Redwine-Riddle maturation model
Adoption rate
Current time pressures
Accelerated adoption
Finding the right audience
Models to encourage transfer
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Adopter categories
Relationship between audience and transfer model
Top transferred technologies
Similar surveys
Example: problems with TT at NASA
Problems industry-wide
Promoters and inhibitors
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Technology creation
For a new technology:
Technology evaluation: preliminary
Goal of preliminary evaluation
Dealing with evidence
Forms of evidence (Schum)
The nature of the evidence
Questions addressed by evidence (Rogers)
Technology evaluation: advanced
Example body of evidence
Goals of advanced evaluation
Assessing the argumentís evidential force
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Technology packaging and support
Fichman and Kemerer study
Questions about packaging and support
Technology diffusion
Studies from the literature (1)
Studies from the literature (2)
Rogersí suggestions
What do we know?
Inhibitors and promoters
Next steps
References