...a grown up person now, I could understand “How did he managed to play cricket without legs”. The change he understood, the change he adapted, the technique he developed, the change he made to himself…. It is true and evident that you can’t live every day in the same style. Change is Eternal. If the person in the above story had thought, it is going to hurt him if he tries to play cricket after the accident, then he will be just called as Handicap. But now, he accepted and fought the battle and won. His name is 'Aghoram'. It has truly inspired me in many ways; in fact I have started playing outdoor games. Being in IT industry for these many years, I have realised most of the IT industries were stick to the traditional SDLC models like Waterfall, Increment without realizing that they have become a Machine with no flexibility. Throughout the years they were never ready for any Challenges and ran in to lot of issues and got trapped when it comes to flexibility to accept the change. It’s not only about Change, it is also about ‘Time to Market’, the more the anxiety you create in Customer, the more trap you...
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...of Human Skills 19 Lack of Systems Thinking 20 Recommendations for Leadership Development 21 Lead with Humility (Level 5 Leadership) 21 Engage in Interactive Leadership 22 Practice Authentic Leadership 22 References 23 Organization Overview The focus of this section is to provide a description of the Software Engineering and Development (SEAD) organization at MCG, the leadership practices of the company’s CEO, and the link between the CEO’s leadership practices and the SEAD organizational culture. This department and leader were chosen for two reasons. First, the SEAD organization underwent many changes over the past 3 years due primarily to the CEO’s leadership decisions, including a complete reorganization to align to Agile methodologies, and an acquisition to Hearst. Second, political forces governing healthcare and innovations in IT management due to cloud computing, in the same timeframe, had tremendous impact to the healthcare industry as a whole, the MCG company specifically,...
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...Quality is a substantially more confounded term than it shows up. Dictionary definitions are typically lacking in helping a quality expert comprehend the idea. It appears that each quality expert characterizes quality to some degree distinctive way. There are varieties of points of view that can be taken in characterizing quality (e.g. customer’s point of view, requirements- based perspective. As per Deming, customer definition of quality is the one that matters most. However, it is very vital for companies to identify the right customer. As per Deming, by improving quality, companies will decrease expenses as well as increase productivity and market share. Also, the quality was defined by Dr. Deming in two ways * A product that conforms to a set of standards, * A product that meets consumer wants and needs. Once standards have been identified, in order to provide a "quality" product, suppliers need to assure that products are manufactured in a manner such that they conform to the quality standards. Quality management is the totality of functions involved in the determination and achievement of quality (includes quality assurance and quality control). [Source: ASQ Statistics Division, Glossary & Tables for Statistical Quality Control, 1983]. The concept of quality management is the foundation for effective management and successful leadership. Programs like Total Quality Management, Six-sigma are practiced by many companies to implement best quality management...
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...Agile Project Management What is Agile Management? According to “Information Technology Project Management” it is defined as “being able to move quickly and easily, but some people fell that project management, as they have seen it used, does not allow people to work quickly or easily.” Agile can be used for software development or in any environment in which the requirements are unknown or can quickly change. The agile approach during the triple constraint phase sets the time, and cost goals but leaves scope goals flexible so the project sponsors or product owners can prioritize and reprioritize the work that needs to be completed. (infotechprojmngt) Using an agile development model, you still do the same type of work as you would use a traditional waterfall model: You create requirements and designs, you develop your product, and you integrate your product with other products as necessary. You test the product, fix any problems, and deploy it for use. However, instead of tackling all the steps for all of your product features at once, you break the project into iterations (smaller segments of the overall project), called sprints. While there are several process differences between traditional project management and agile, the most significant shift is from hierarchal-based responsibility and task assignment in favor of the “self-organized” team-based approach. Traditionally, the onus for project success has resided with the project manager by creating, communicating and executing...
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...Study on Agile software development methodologies A B M Moniruzzaman abm.mzkhan@gmail.com Dr Syed Akhter Hossain aktarhossain@daffodilvarsity.edu.bd Abstract Today‘s business environment is very much dynamic, and organisations are constantly changing their software requirements to adjust with new environment. They also demand for fast delivery of software products as well as for accepting changing requirements. In this aspect, traditional plan-driven developments fail to meet up these requirements. Though traditional software development methodologies, such as life cycle-based structured and object oriented approaches, continue to dominate the systems development few decades and much research has done in traditional methodologies, Agile software development brings its own set of novel challenges that must be addressed to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of the valuable software. It‘s a set of software development methods based on iterative and incremental development process, where requirements and development evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams that allows rapid delivery of high quality software to meet customer needs and also accommodate changes in the requirements. In this paper, we significantly indentify and describe the major factors, that Agile development approach improves software development process to meet the rapid changing business environments. We also provide a brief comparison of agile development...
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...reasons to create an architecture for a software product: 1. Communication among stakeholder: Software architecture represents a common abstraction of a system that most if not all of the system's stakeholders can use as a basis for interactive understanding, transaction, consent and communication. 2. Early design decision: Software architecture displays the earliest design decisions about a system and proportion to their individual force with respect to the system is remaining development and its maintenance life and also the earliest point at which design decisions administrative the system to be built can be analyzed. 3. Transferable abstraction of a system:Software architecture constitutes a relatively small, intellectually readable model for how a system is structured and how its elements work together and also can be applied to other systems illustrate similar quality attribute and functional requirements and can promote large-scale re-use. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. What is an Architectural Viewpoint? Describe basic viewpoints. Architectural Viewpoint: An architecture viewpoint concept is defined by IEEE 1471-2000. “An architecture viewpoint is a specification of the members for constructing and using a view.” A pattern or complete from which to develop personally views by establishing the purpose and peoples for a view and the technique for its creation and analysis. An architectural...
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...Malaysian Airlines TIME TO TRAVEL……. Preliminary Consultancy Report (Update) Of Developing An Agile/Adaptive Organization by Concentrating HR Capabilities Perspective: Malaysian Airlines Prepared by Anupam Mazumdar Vidya Md. Mohsin Zaki Derrick Bungo Malaysian Airlines TIME TO TRAVEL……. ADOPTED APPROACH & METHOD JUSTIFICATION THIS REPORT IS BASED ON MALAYSIAN AIRLINES IN WHICH INDUCTIVE CONTEXT WILL BE DEVELOPED BY USING DIFFERENT SOURCES SUCH AS JOURNALS, ARTICLES, COMPANY DATABASE, COMPANY & CASE STUDY WEBSITE, COMPANIES ANNUAL AND LATEST REPORT REPORTS OF OTHER HOMOGENEOUS ORGANIZATIONS (RITCHE ET AL., 2014) CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION (HOW HR CAN ADOPT AGILE/ADAPTIVE APPROACH) WILL BE DERIVED FROM MALAYSIAN AIRLINES DATA, INFORMATION, FINANCIAL STATEMENT, PRESS RELESE, FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS OF PAST AND PRESENT STATUS OF MALAYSIAN AIRLINES (SILVERMAN, 2014) Malaysian Airlines TIME TO TRAVEL……. THEORIES THE FOLLOWING THEORIES WILL BE USED TO IDENTIFY THE KEY ISSUES OF MA THEORIES ü ü ü ü ü ü ü ü ü PESTEL ANALYSIS SWOT ANALYSIS PORTER’S 5 FORCES CULTURAL AND LEADERSHIP STYLE OF MA (HARD & SOFT) KNOWLEDGE BASED VIEW & RESOURCE BASED VIEW FORCE FIELD ANALYSIS BLUE OCEAN STRATEGIES STRATEGY GROUP MAP SEVEN “S” MODEL KEY ISSUES ü COMPANY PROFILE OF THE MALAYSIAN AIRLINES ü CURRENT STATUS OF THE THE MALAYSIAN AIRLINES ü CURRENT STRATEGIC POSITION OF MALAYSIAN AIRLINES ü CURRENT HR PRACTICES IN MA ü STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS...
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...process improvement projects. Significant hands-on experience in business sectors such as, Finance, Healthcare and Banking. Effective communicator, excellent team player, quick learner and creative problem solver with fine-tuned analytical skills. Education includes: Professional Summary Business Requirements Gathering, Business Process Flow, System Analysis, Business Process Modeling and Business Analysis. Industry experience in Healthcare, Finance, Health Insurance and Banking sector. Expertise experience in writing Business requirements document, System requirements specifications, Functional requirements document, developing Use Cases, creating screen mockups, and preparing Training manuals. Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)- Feasibility Requirements Analysis, Design, Construction, Testing, Implementation, Support) and Rational Unified Process (RUP) and UML methodology Expertise in Waterfall and iterative methodologies such as Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology, and Agile. Excellent skills in writing Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Specification Document (FSD) and Non-Functional Specification Document, System Design Specification (SDS) Performed Gap analysis, SWOT analysis, Risk analysis, and Cost/Benefit analysis. Coordinating various technical and managerial teams at all levels. Tracing requirements throughout the development process and verifying adherence using the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM). Tracing...
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...not be said about software. There is no theory for software devlopment as yet. But at the same time, it is mandatory that software always behaves in a predictable manner, even in unforeseen circumstances. Hence there is a need to control its development through a well defined and systematic process. The old fashioned 'code & test' approach will not do any more. It may be good enough for 'toy' problems, but in real life, software is expected to solve enormously complex problems. Some of the aspects of real life software projects are: Team effort: Any large development effort requires the services of a team of specialists. For example the team could consist of domain experts, software design experts, coding specialists, testing experts, hardware specialists, etc. Each group could concentrate on a specific aspect of the problem and design suitable solution. However no group can work in isolation. There will be constant interaction among team...
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...A Technical View of System Analysis and Design Abstract System Analysis and Design is a process. Analysis is the part that involves the study of the units working together. Design is an essential phase in the development process based on the user needs. System Analysis and Design is an approach towards reinforcing the analysis and design of information systems with the objective of improving the system performance by automation. This paper explores the Managers outlook and importance of System Analysis and Design as well as the exploration into organizations that utilize System Development and Design. We uphold that continual and extensive use of current System Analysis and Design Methodologies will assist in the development of an effective system. Key Words: System Analysis, System Design, Methodologies Introduction Computers are now becoming part of virtually every activity in an organization. This paper explores the relationship between the organizations and managers of IS projects and the usefulness and need for IS project managers to become more knowledgeable to be able to effectively anticipate and deal with conflicts that arise as a consequence of information systems creation or modifications in organizations. The development of a system basically involves two major parts: System Analysis and System Design. System Analysis is defined as the study of a business problem domain or area to recommend improvements and specify the business requirements...
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...Final Project Report COEN 287 Software Development Process Management Winter2016 Instructor: Zoltan Kurczveil Dhara Tamhare Shilpita Roy Kevin Hong Preface Subject of software development process management provides us infinite knowledge and understanding while witnessing it in at company enables us to perceive how various lesson learned in class are associated at numerous level at work place. Knowledge gained from a book can provide immense amount of conceptual knowledge and spotting it in realtime scenario can be equally astonishing. A through study can be useful to develop instincts to understand how at it is instantly correlated at a company. Keeping this point of view in mind every student of Software development project management class of Santa Clara University undertakes his / her choice of project related to the subject. This initiation enables them to understand this pivotal subject plus preparing them to be competent enough to face all future challenges that will be encountered. Thus as per syllabus Santa Clara University has specially included this project. Acknowledgement First, we would like to thank Santa Clara University, which has given us the opportunity to work ...
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...President Herbert Hoover. The veteran affairs were created to provide health care services and certain benefits to former military personnel and their dependents. The veteran affairs have three administrative divisions. The divisions are as followed, veteran benefits administration, veteran’s health administration and National cemetery administration. The "Department Of Veterans Affairs" (2016) website. As of today there are 1,700 Veteran hospitals and clinics The "U.S. Department Of Veterans Affairs " (2016). Today veteran hospitals use VistA, which is VA's award winning Health Information Technology (IT) system. It provides an integrated inpatient and outpatient electronic health record for VA patients, and administrative tools to help VA deliver the best quality medical care to Veterans. VistA is also used to manage multimedia for cardiology, radiology and pathology. It is able to provide video clips of each scan as well as images. Veteran hospitals today also use BCMA barcode medication administration system. The BCMA is used when a patient needs medication; each nurse scans the patient bracelet as well as the medication that will be given to the patient to verify this is the correct medication for that patient. Vistas became the instrument of change at the VA in the mid 1900’s and since this change Veteran hospitals and care facilities have noticed a drastic change in patient care in health care records. Veteran healthcare facilities started up doing the Civil War in...
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...Skills Business Analyst with People Management Skills, Customer Relationship Management and expertise in Software project development and management in Agile methodology • Over 5 years of experience in gathering requirements for software application development projects • Eliciting requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, site visits, product related descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, and task & workflow analysis. • Delivering IT Solutions involving requirement analysis and management, project scope definition, implementation and testing of applications built for Windows, Mobile devices and Web in internet/intranet infrastructure • Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user needs from the required system • Proficient in documenting business requirements in Agile methodology, creating Functional specifications, User Interface design, Use Case Modeling, Process flows and reviewing Test Case document • Expertise in Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) management and Business to Business (B2B) integration concepts • Proficient at Scrum model & processes and Agile methodologies, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) • Posses good domain understanding and expertise in Healthcare and Retail & Personal Finance ...
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...Adaptation of Agile Practices: A Systematic Review and Survey Budsadee Kongyai and Edi Edi School of Computing Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona Sweden This thesis is submitted to the School of Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Software Engineering. The thesis is equivalent to 40 weeks of full time studies. Contact Information: Author(s): Budsadee Kongyai Address: Kungsmarksvägen 43 Karlskrona 371 44, Sweden E-mail: nune.budsadee@gmail.com Edi Edi Address: Kungsmarksvägen 57 Karlskrona 371 44, Sweden E-mail: edi198@gmail.com University advisor(s): Dr. Jürgen Börstler School of Computing EMSE Co-supervisors: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. H. Dieter Rombach (TU Kaiserslautern) Dr. Ove Armbrust (Fraunhofer IESE, Germany) School of Computing Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona Sweden Internet: www.bth.se/com Phone : +46 455 38 50 00 Fax : +46 455 38 50 57 Abstract Context. Due to the uniqueness of software projects there is no single Agile development approach that ideally fits all project contexts. Each software project is unique, whether in its subject area, development team, or project size. Because of this, adapting Agile practices according to project circumstances is a must. There has been a number of literature published discussing Agile practices adaptation topic. However, it is still unclear how to adapt Agile practices....
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...help their customers have a better experience. While, startups in this domain are coming up with an approach of having “digital platform” as the only way to function. Customers today are introduced to a digital platform that takes care of all their banking functions from opening a new account to handle issues relate to their existing account, and helps resolve issues associated with their debit or credit cards. Customers across the globe have been continuously demanding a digital medium that can make their banking functions simple. As per...
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