The evaluation of a conceptual model, which is an outcome of a qualitative research, is an arduous task due to the lack of a rigorous basis for evaluation. Overcoming this challenge, the paper at hand presents a detailed example of a multifaceted evaluation of a Reference Model of Information Assurance & Security (RMIAS), which summarises the knowledge acquired by the Information Assurance & Security community to date in one all-encompassing model. A combination of analytical and empirical evaluation methods is exploited to evaluate the RMIAS in a sustained way overcoming the limitations of separate methods. The RMIAS is analytically evaluated regarding the quality criteria of conceptual models and compared with existing models. Twenty-six semistructured interviews with IAS experts are conducted to test the merit of the RMIAS. Three workshops and a case study are carried out to verify the practical value of the model. The paper discusses the evaluation methodology and evaluation results.

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This paper discusses the progress made in an enhancement project completed at two Universities in the United Kingdom. It is reported that whilst teamworking is valued by employers, its inclusion is less well received by learners themselves [2,14,25]. The project is an example of contributing student pedagogy [9]. The work began as a project completed by a placement student as part of a university's' funded project [BLINDED]. The work explores learners' perceptions and experiences of teamworking before and as part of taught courses. These views have been intercalated into an evolving set of guidelines that have been used to inform further enhancements. These guidelines were written to enable learners to develop their own teamworking agreements to set out expected behaviors for working in the team. Whilst a work in progress, the approach and outcomes will be of interest to others engaged in the delivery and enhancement of student teamwork within computing related programmes and potentially other disciplines.

This article discusses a computer-based holistic approach to raise the awareness of development progress in distributed agile projects. The approach analyses how the technical activities (i.e. source code versioning, unit testing, acceptance testing, integration and releasing) affects development progress and provides automatic mechanisms that help coordinate progress change with distributed team members. The approach has been evaluated through practical scenarios and has validated these through a research prototype. The result shows that the use of the holistic approach can provide better awareness of progress to team members than the traditional approach that relies on informal communications.

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