Sep 2026· Journal of African Innovation and Advanced Studies· 0 citations
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This study examined the application of sustainable technology for effective risk management development, using AXA Mansard Insurance Plc as a case study. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The target population comprised 134 professional staff of AXA Mansard Insurance Plc across its operational hubs in Lagos, Abuja, and Enugu. Data collection was executed using a structured 4-point Likert scale questionnaire Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (frequencies and percentages), while hypotheses were tested using inferential statistics (Chi-Square). The empirical findings revealed that integration of sustainable technology has significantly improve risk identification, assessment, monitoring, and control processes. The study also identified high cost of implementation, lack of technical expertise, and poor infrastructure as challenges hindering the integration of sustainable technology for effective risk management. Based on these findings, the study recommends that organisations should allocate adequate resources to sustainable technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), data analytics, automation, and other digital systems that can improve risk identification, monitoring, prediction, and response, also, insurance companies should transit to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) models to lower initial capital barriers, implement structured socio-technical upskilling programs for staff to bridge the technology-human usage gap, develop hybrid parametric climate insurance products, and actively collaborate with regulatory bodies like NAICOM to establish standardized green underwriting policies.
This publication proposes a definition and a classification of agile software development approaches and analyses ten software development methods that can be characterized as being "agile" against the defined criterion.
P. Abrahamsson, O. Salo, Jussi Ronkainen et al.· arXiv.org· 727 citations· ⚡54
The study shows that agile practices improve both informal and formal communication, but indicates that, in larger development situations involving multiple external stakeholders, a mismatch of adequate communication mechanisms can sometimes even hinder the communication.
M. Pikkarainen, Jukka Haikara, O. Salo et al.· Empirical Software Engineeri...· 401 citations· ⚡48
The results indicate that software engineering work practices are chosen opportunistically, adapted and configured to provide value under the constrains imposed by the startup context.
Nicolò Paternoster, Carmine Giardino, M. Unterkalmsteiner et al.· Information and Software Tec...· 394 citations· ⚡54
The results show that the embedded industry has been able to apply agile methods in its development processes and that the appreciation of the agile methods and their individual practices appears to increase once adopted and applied in practice.
O. Salo, P. Abrahamsson· IET Software· 238 citations· ⚡9
Consequences of happiness and unhappiness that are beneficial and detrimental for developers' mental well-being, the software development process, and the produced artifacts are found.
D. Graziotin, Fabian Fagerholm, Xiaofeng Wang et al.· Journal of Systems and Softw...· 236 citations· ⚡13
The Mobile-D approach is briefly outlined here and the experiences gained from four case studies are discussed, which helped develop an agile development approach for mobile application development.
P. Abrahamsson, Antti Hanhineva, H. Hulkko et al.· Conference on Object-Oriente...· 225 citations· ⚡18
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