There are two things that need to be said about Test Driven Development (TDD). It is a good thing (especially from a tester’s perspective)‚ but it is only a good thing if it is done properly. The key to success in agile processes is a strong reliance on experience‚ and on the fact that this is passed on. One of the roles in such a team is dedicated to testing‚ and this article wants to put a case for having technical testers for agile start-ups in order to ensure that TDD is done
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Pete Solvik made a very good decision to upgrade the existing information system by implementing ERP when the company encountered a major shutdown for two days. One reason the project became successful was because of internal recruiting. The team consisted of the best business people. The company just did not rely on IT department‚ instead IT and business people worked together to meet the core objectives. The estimated costs and time to complete to the project matched closely with the initial
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The impacts of implementing a data warehouse in the banking industry Data warehousing in the financial sector Introduction In the modern banking and financial sector‚ there is keener and stronger competition and many enterprises are much more eager to get immediate and accurate information to make better and faster decisions. Furthermore‚ with many banks fighting to capture new customers and the rapidly growing need for larger amounts and more specific information‚ traditional databases are incapable
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Article Summaries: Diagnostic Control Systems: Implementing Intended Strategies The Rise & Fall of Management Accounting The Rise & Fall of Management Accounting The article authors‚ Johnson and Kaplan looks at how management accounting has evolved over the years and within different industries and how those management accounting reports have failed to help mangers make decisions to reduce costs and improve productivity. The authors state that contemporary trends in competition‚ technology
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Purchasing and Implementing a Student Mangament System at JCSS Introduction Jefferson County School System has purchased a new System for Student Management and just like any new technology it takes time to adjust. But there were quite a few issues in the implementation process that could have been avoided. I will explain what went well in the implementation process of Jefferson County School System. I will examine the complaints as well as complications with the system and explain what should
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Unit SC4 Principles for Implementing Duty of Care. Assignment 055 Task A Duty of care means to take measures‚ which are reasonable in the circumstances‚ to prevent harm to other people. Duty of care for Early Years providers is a legal requirement set out in the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage and Early Years providers are guided by the Working together to Safeguard Children 2010 publication and by comprehensive Health & Safety and Safeguarding Policies. Any person who is
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Implementing the Professional Learning Community February 9‚ 2014 EDU675: Change Leadership for Differentiated Educational Environment Dr. Carl Beyer Implementing the Professional Learning Community The four activities that I proposed in my discussion of professional learning communities were assistive technology training/workshops‚ collaboration‚ differentiation‚ and observation. Each of these activities are things that can definitely be implemented in a future position. First
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Production/Operation concerns when implementing strategies Introduction In the growing global competition‚ the productivity is the key for the survival of any business organization. Among different functions in an organization‚ production/operations function is a vital function which does the job of value addition to product/service‚ respectively. Maximizing the value addition automatically results in productivity improvement. This can be done starting from the stage of product development and
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Int. J. Business Performance Management‚ Vol. 5‚ No. 1‚ 2003 1 Implementing performance measurement systems: a literature review Mike Bourne* and Andy Neely Centre for Business Performance‚ School of Management‚ Cranfield University‚ Cranfield‚ MK43 0AL‚ UK E-mail: m.bourne@cranfield.ac.uk *Corresponding author John Mills and Ken Platts Centre for Strategy and Performance‚ Institute for Manufacturing‚ University of Cambridge‚ Mill Lane‚ Cambridge‚ CB2 1RX‚ UK Abstract: Currently‚ there
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4063 REV: DECEMBER 15‚ 2009 DAVID A. GARVIN ELIZABETH COLLINS RL Wolfe: Implementing Self-Directed Teams On a clear day in May 2007‚ John Amasi looked down on the city of Corpus Christi‚ Texas‚ as his plane approached the airport. As director of Production and Engineering at RL Wolfe—a $350M privately held plastic pipe manufacturer headquartered in Houston‚ Texas—he was looking forward to visiting the company’s plant in the city. Four years previously‚ in 2003‚ when RL Wolfe had purchased
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