...Identify the job: IT Programmer Analyst Profile: Generally experience ranging from 0 years (fresh out of college) to 3 years of experience. Mainly work as programmer to support outsourcing projects from USA, UK and Europe. They provide technical support to applications, write programs to develop new applications and troubleshoot issues with developed solutions Key Performance Criteria: 1. High Turnover and Workforce Retention 2. Compensation and Reward 3. Synergy with other departments 4. Poor Work-Life Balance 5. Lack of ethics/work culture 6. Lack of effective communication between teams 7. High Turnover 8. Shortage of talented programmers Key Performance Criteria 1. High Turnover and Workforce Retention Reasons: a. Better prospect from competitor/other companies b. Slow or no career development (includes promotion, salary hike, responsibility increase etc.) c. Micromanaged by technical managers. No scope of autonomy or intellectual growth d. High demand of talented programmers with some sort of managerial or leadership background. Solutions: a. Better career advancement prospects within the company if the employee stays for some number of years. May include promotion, on-site travel, managing teams etc.: Expectancy Theory b. Challenging projects and more responsibility: Job Enrichment c. Competitive pay and regular hikes: Expectancy Theory d. Increase autonomy of programmers by providing high level management guidance and reducing micro-managing:...
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...Importance of Alice to New Programmers Programming is the act of writing computer programs or software in one or more of a set of programming languages. It seems highly abstruse and technical to the untrained. Learning it is a delicate process that requires a lot of care and diligence. If this learning process is rushed or mismanaged, the required basics would not be picked up and this would make programming much harder later on. When a person wants to learn anything new, it is considered essential that the person start from the rudiments. For example, when a person is learning how to play a musical instrument, he must first learn about its structure, then how to play basic melodies before delving into symphonies or even self-composition. For a person learning programming, it is advised that he begin with a simple language such as Python or Ruby so as to obtain a good foundation in the methods of programming without being discouraged by the complexities of the more advanced ones such as C++ or Java. An equally effective approach is to use tutoring software such as Alice. Alice is like the training wheels for programmers. It is a software environment that allows its users to manipulate objects in three-dimensional space, with the aid of visual scripting elements. No real programming is done. However, the procedures required to get work done in Alice are similar in logic to the ones used in actual programming and as a result of this, the prospective programmers are able to understand...
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...ROLES IN THE UNITED STATES Software Engineering Roles for Displaced Computer Programmers R. B. Blinder ENG-201-OL December 10, 2011 Thomas Edison State College Table of Contents SOFTWARE ENGINEERING ROLES IN THE UNITED STATES 1 Abstract 3 Software Engineering for Displaced Computer Programmers 4 Purpose 5 Education and Training Requirements 8 Sources of data 9 Figure 1 Projections Data 9 Figure 2 ESTIMATED WAGES 10 Summary 10 References 12 Appendix A 13 Job Summary 1 - Senior Embedded Engineer 14 Job Summary 2 - Android Software Programmer 16 Abstract This paper focuses on the field of software engineering, with a focus on the specific job role of a systems analyst, an area that has undergone rapid changes in the past decade. In many ways, yesterday’s software professionals have engineered their own obsolescence by streamlining technologies that allow users to do much of the work themselves (U.S. Department of Labor, 2008). Systems analysts begin the computer application design process. They work with clients to understand requirements and map out solutions. This requires problem solving skills, mathematics and programming knowledge— traditional practices which systems analysts have always undertaken. What has changed is the need for analysts with excellent communication skills, capable of serving as the intermediary between the client and the programmers, in order to develop solutions that meet the customer’s needs within the constraints...
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...SGD 23 October 2013 Career Analysis: Video Game Programmer Video games have been part of my life for as long as I can remember, but several years ago I became increasingly interested in what goes on behind the scenes to make them work and that is why I am now aspiring to be a video game programmer. My overall goal is actually to become a lead video game designer. To achieve this goal I must first establish myself in the industry as a programmer because design jobs are typically not entry-level and require more experience. Before planning the steps I will need to take to become a video game physics engine programmer I must first analyze the responsibilities of a video game programmer; specifically a physics engine programmer. “A physics engine programmer is responsible for determining the physics that will be utilized in a video game.” Realism games will strive to simulate the most accurate real-world physics that they possibly can, which requires the programmer to have a great deal of knowledge in many different aspects of physics as well as a great deal of calculus. Although, a lot of games will produce their own laws of physics that correlate with game's world they are applying them to, the physics engine programmer will still need to have a wide range of knowledge in physics to actually determine the physical laws in the world and how they interact with each other. It is not uncommon to see only one physics programmer assigned to a project when developing games that require...
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...Basic Object-Oriented Concepts How People Understand Technology There is an old story of how several blind men set out to understand what an elephant was by examining a live specimen. Each of them explored a different part of the elephant's body. One blind man, falling against the elephant's side, proclaimed that an elephant must be very much like a wall. Another, grasping the elephant's ear, decided that an elephant must closely resemble a leaf. One grabbed the elephant's tail and determined that elephants must resemble ropes. Yet another felt the elephant's leg and came away convinced that elephants are very much like trees. Still another held the elephant's trunk and exclaimed that elephants had much in common with snakes. While there was at least a grain of truth in each blind man's observation, none of them had a complete and accurate understanding of just what an elephant is. We can imagine the many animated debates that these blind men had when they compared notes -- each sure that the others must be wrong. Often, people studying technology are like the blind men in our story. It is very common to focus intently on one facet of one aspect of a technology while ignoring the vast breadth of the same technology. There is nothing wrong with this -- unless a person studying the facet begins to think that he or she has somehow acquired a good grasp of the entire technology. To acquire an in-depth understanding of a technology requires a great deal of research. The sheer...
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...Proposal for Inventory Management and Point of Sale Systems (Public) Table of Contents Table of Contents Introduction Details of the Plan Example Situation Finding a Solution What are the requirements? Inventory Management One Solution Cost Other Requirements Narrowing Down a Solution Solutions Researched Proposed Solution Other features & thoughts: Pricing Summary Introduction As you read this proposal, please consider the women at Haitian Creations. The goal is to empower them with knowledge and to share the good news with these ladies: “My name is Joseph and I am 23 years old. I have 2 children who are 6 and 3 years old. I was living on the streets. Now, I am able to live in a home. I have worked at Haitian Creations for one year. This program allows me to pay for my children's education. I am very thankful for Heartline giving me the opportunity to learn and work. One day I would like to study and be a nurse.” - Joseph Wideleine “My name is Nehimie and I am 27 years old. It is difficult to find work and I am very excited to be able to learn and make purses. This is my first job and I have worked at Heartline for one year. I enjoy making purses and other products with my hands. One day I would like to be a clothing fashion designer.” - Nehimie Ulysse Can we help more women like this? These are women that are working hard to bring themselves out of the oppressed lifestyle they are all too familiar with from before. When I visit the program I see them studying, writing...
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...1) IT Governance is a matter of allocating accountability and decision-rights in the business process to make sure that IT meets the rules of IT Governance. Releasing and assigning to a lower position such as the execution of the decisions to management, is a serious error. It is suggested that IT Governance includes a lot of approaches, methodologies, frameworks and their affiliated policies, standards and processes expected to realize decisions. The relationship between IT execution and IT Governance Processes has to be understood and modified to achieve maximum efficiency so the work. Many organizations think that increasing staff and validating the documentation of their financial reporting processes would be enough to force off the intense anger of SOX. The challenge for the auditing firms was that, even though companies could be audited against the integrity of their business controls, it turned out very hard to evaluate whether any regulation subsisted to manage these controls. The big majority of social control mechanisms for these business controls exists within the IT infrastructure of any organization and is encoded within their software to carry on their day-to-day business. In order to meet all approaches for better business process, IT should make the right decisions in relation to: * IT Investment * IT Architecture * IT Infrastructure schemes * IT Business Applications The relationship between IT execution and IT governance are several: First is...
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...American Journal of Scientific Research ISSN 1450-223X Issue 50 (2012), pp. 62-75 © EuroJournals Publishing, Inc. 2012 http://www.eurojournals.com/ajsr.htm Review Study: Business Intelligence Concepts and Approaches Saeed Rouhani Islamic Azad University, Firoozkooh Branch Department of Industrial Engineering, Firoozkooh, Iran E-mail: SRouhani@iust.ac.ir Tel: +98-912-2034980 Sara Asgari MehrAlborz University, Tehran, Iran E-mail: sara.asgary29@gmail.com Seyed Vahid Mirhosseini MehrAlborz University, Tehran, Iran E-mail: vmirhosseini@gmail.com Abstract In today’s challenging business environment, it is a vital for organization to access useful information and knowledge. Business Intelligence (BI) is an umbrella concept for tools, techniques and solutions that helps managers to understand business situation. And BI tools can support informational knowledge needs of organizations. With respect to increasing trend of BI researches in BI concepts and applications, in this paper, recent researches and papers of academic journals in this field is systematically review to classify and prioritize the concepts and approaches of business intelligence. Consequently researches was classified in three, managerial, technical and system enables approaches to BI, and specification of each approach and future research quid was described. Keywords: Business Intelligence; Enterprise Intelligence Approaches Systems; Review Study; Business 1. Introduction Today, in the rapidly...
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...Assume that you have four job offers to choose between. The first offer is a place as a researcher in a Governmental Research Institute close to the city-centre, 45 minutes from your home. The head of the research department has sent you an offer letter in which he promises a starting salary of 1900€ a month with standard 37.5 weekly working hours and a permanent place in their research team. In the letter he also mentioned several training programs and courses related to the different research areas which are offered to the personnel. The job would be technically challenging, focused and gives opportunities for further studying. As there is no continuing need for domestic travelling the Research Institute does not provide their employees with company-owned cars. However, there are likely to be conferences all over Europe where you are assumed to attend every now and then (20 travelling days a year). The second offer is from a multinational consulting firm. They have offered you a place for six months trial period, after which you could act as a junior consultant. The salary from the trial period is 2700€ per month, after which it is likely to rise to 3500€ in three years. According to the senior partner of the department, there is no reason to believe that they would not continue the work agreement after the trial period, but it is merely a matter of company's overall employment policy and your own will. The luxurious office of the company is located in the...
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...Apple http://www.apple.nl Visie: Steve Jobs, de oprichter van Apple, heeft ooit over de visie van Apple gezegd: “An Apple at every desk”. Algemener, is dit te vertalen, naar een zo groot mogelijke aanwezigheid op de markt. Missie Apple probeert de beste persoonlijke computerervaring voor studenten, creatieve professionals en consumenten rondom heel de wereld neer te zetten. Zij proberen dit te bereiken door middel van innovatieve hardware, en software. Doelen Het doel van Apple is niet alleen een zo groot mogelijke markt aan te spreken, maar ook een zo goed mogelijke gebruiksevaring te creëren. De producten moeten een genot zijn om te gebruiken, zodat de consument een band krijgt met het merk. Dit proberen ze te bereiken door middel van de producten en software die ze maken, en op elkaar afstemmen. De belangrijkste producten voor Apple zijn momenteel hun iMacs, Macbooks, iPods en iPhones. Strategie De merknaam Apple wordt gebruikt om over de gehele wereld op diverse markten te concurreren op het gebied van computers. Daarnaast zijn ze ook op de elektronische markt actief met onder andere de iPod’s, iTunes, iPhone’s en iPad’s. Het is de bedoeling om vooral op de emotie van de consument in te spelen op basis van persoonlijkheid, innovatie en passie. Ze werken met de producten in op het gevoel van simplisme en het wegnemen van complexiteit. Bij Apple bestaat er een soort band tussen de gebruikers en Apple. De waarde van het merk is bij Apple extreem sterk...
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...BI projects can earn USD 97.50 per module in profits and Retail projects can earn USD 95.00 per module. BI modules usually require 10 hours of Systems Analysis and 40 hours of programming, while the Retail modules require 20 hours of Systems Analysis and 30 hours of programming. Each of these two types of projects relies primarily on two types of resources – Systems Analysts and Programmers. You currently have 3 systems analysts on your payroll and 6 programmers. Your company policy dictates that people will work for 200 hours per month. Presuming that market demand is not a bottleneck at this stage – and that every dollar counts for your new startup, how should you allocate resources to the two domain areas so as to maximize your revenue. 12 modules of BI and 24 modules of retail vertical will give the maximum revenue of $3450 BI Retail Verical One module profit 97.5 One module profit $95 Requirements Sys Anlst 10 hr Sys Anlst 20 hr Programmer 40 hr...
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...knowledge in programming concepts because just about all the areas in the IT field ultimately come down to programming the computer to do a specific function or task. If you don’t have the basic skills of programming concepts you will be lost when it comes to trouble shooting any problems. As an It professional you will come across many circumstances that will require you to have programming fundamentals to do the job required at the time. Having knowledge in the JAVA language is beneficial to the IT professional. Java is probably the most used programming language out in the market today and you need to have some understanding to maintain the ability to compete in the IT world. As an IT professional and being a non-programmer you need to have some knowledge of how to write and read a program. Learning the fundamentals of programming will help you understand...
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...As a CNC Programmers there are certain techniques we can implement to increase efficiency and quality. In essence, a CNC Programmer must provide information (within the program) that is easy for all future operators to understand. By doing so, we allow operators of all skill levels to produce the highest quality parts in which our customers demand. Operators with more information can produce parts of the highest quality with consistency and efficiency. A CNC Programmer should provide the following information when programming a part: 1. Signify where the zero set is…ex.(----------X0Y0 IN CENTER----------) * Operator can follow print with greater accuracy * Efficiency increases 2. State if more than one zero is used for a program * Helps operators set up and increases operator efficiency 3. Display the date the program was written or revised. (------11.16.11--------) * Helps determine possible revision changes * Helps avoid mistakes or operator error 4. Indicate tool number and operation number * Some tools have multiple operations which need to be stated * Ex. (------TOOL 1------) (--------OPERATION 1--------) * (-------TOOL 1-------) (---------OPRERATION 2---------) * Program is easier to follow and understand 5. Add “N” blocks to section off program * Partitions program in sequences allow for easy search and operating 6. Indicate touch off point * Some programs require a (+/-) from programmed...
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...computer, here is some examples. Computer System Analyst: A systems analyst is an IT professional who specializes in analyzing, designing and implementing information systems. Being a System Analyst are require to: * Identify, understand and plan for organizational and human impacts of planned systems, and ensure that new technical requirements are properly integrated with existing processes and skill sets. * Plan a system flow from the ground up. * Interact with internal users and customers to learn and document requirements that are then used to produce business requirements documents. * Write technical requirements from a critical phase. * Interact with designers to understand software limitations. * Help programmers during system development, and provide use case flowcharts or even data base design....
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...Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) and a French company called CGR (Leveson, n.d., p. 2). It is this machine that will cause other developers and manufacturers to rethink how to develop machines that will impact people’s lives. The Therac-25 was involved in six massive overdoses that cost three people’s lives, while the machine gave the operator error messages or a message that states that no dose was given (Baase, 2008, p. 425). After the first accident, some users became skeptical of the safety of the device. Yet, the manufacturer turned a blind eye on the matter. They responded to the incident that they have fixed the problem. In the following months, five more accidents occurred. In each incident, the manufacturer, the computer programmer, and the clinic/hospital using the Therac-25 have some responsibilities and flaws that need to be addressed. The Problems Manufacturer What would be the first thing that a manufacturer needs to do when they have an incident with one of their products? It should be the recall of that product, in this case the Therac-25. The Therac-25 can help a person ailing with cancer with its beam but the beam itself would be too harmful to the patient. Any medical equipment that has the potential to harm a human being should be carefully used. The manufacturer was confident of how safe the machine was and installed them at different locations. When the manufacturer learned that the first victim had radiation burns, they “refused to believe...
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