E-learning - Make It Happen Five Tried And Tested Ways of Making e-Learning Work by Sarvadarshi Rajgrihar
According to extensive research carried out by the Sapio Institute, an organisation dedicated to conducting ongoing studies in the field of e-learning, there are five prerequisites for ensuring the success of e-learning initiatives. Organisational Buy-in The company must ‘buy in’ to the... It must project itself as a learning organisation and foster a learning environment that pervades the entire organisation. ... To ensure the success of its e-learning initiatives, organisations need to create a culture of independent learning, by providing the requisite infrastructure (CD-ROMs,...

E-Learning--The Truth Exposed: Discover Why Organisations The World Over Are Adopting E-Learning by Sarvadarshi Rajgrihar
You’ve known about the success of e-learning for quite some time now. You’ve probably attributed this to various factors — cost-savings, convenience, easy logistics, higher levels of user involvement, etc. While you’re absolutely right on all counts, there is one other earth-shattering fact — a... The study also analysed the reasons for the high completion rate offered by e-learning, attributing it to: • Flexibility (the convenience of being able to choose time and place) • Non-intrusiveness (doesn’t disturb the learner’s schedule) • Customisation of pace (according to the learner’s...

ITIL: Understanding and Using IT Service Management by Alan Calder
‘ITIL’ is a term that is fast gaining currency around the IT world. It is often wrongly described as ‘IT governance’ – in fact, on its own, it certainly isn’t this. ITIL is a collection of best practices that helps companies implement an IT Service Management culture. ... ITIL processes can be mapped to CobiT (Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology) processes, and the two frameworks complement each other nicely: if the CobiT control framework tells the organisation ‘what’ to do in the delivery and support areas, ITIL best practices help the organisation define ‘how’ to...

The Capability Maturity Model and the SEI - What has it Done for Software Development so far? by Paul Bellchambers
The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) was formed to provide the US government with a body that developed standards for the human and technology aspects of the processes of software and systems development. It is a research and development centre. It now has a European office in Frankfurt. ... This may not seem to be relevant to smaller organisation but I would argue that it does. ... The organisation has expanded its services and expertise beyond the model initially developed, the Capability Maturity Model (CMM).

Mercury Automated Testing by Tom Millichamp
What’s all this test automation about? Since the millennium bug there has been an explosion in test automation. The expansion of automated tools from vendors such as Mercury Interactive, IBM Rational, Segue and others has really delivered automated testing into the heart of just about every... They all share a steep learning curve, so some time and money need to be invested into getting your team up to scratch with the tools. ... So what are the pitfalls to test automation? ... It is easy for these tools to become ‘shelfware’ as purchasers do not consider the complexity and power of some...

Benefits of Automating Software Processes by Marcus Tettmar
Perhaps the most obvious reason for automating software is to speed up a process and remove mundane, repetitive manual tasks. Software automation therefore saves time and resources, which equates to cost savings. Examples of this abound. But in this article I’d like to talk about some other good... If only one person in the organisation knows how to carry out a task there will be problems if and when that person is sick, on vacation, or leaves the company. ... Software automation can also lead to improved documentation.

Causes Of Software Project Failure by Muhammad Saqib
Most software projects fail completely or partial failures because a small number of projects meet all their requirements. These requirements can be the cost, schedule, quality, or requirements objectives. According to many studies, failure rate of software projects is between 50% - 80%. ... It affects the project in many ways, wrong estimation complete failure, affect the good-will of the organisation if the costs are not covered, stake holders are affected and waste of resources. ... Ease of customisation As mentioned above the selected tool must be customisable according to the...

User Driven Modelling - Background Information by Peter Hale
Explanation of the Problem to be Addressed Research Aim This research arises out of work to create systems to facilitate management of design and cost related knowledge within those organisations, with the aim of using this knowledge to reduce the costs of manufacturing products. ... The research mainly concentrates on using the above technique for modelling, searching and sorting. ... The technique should be usable for other types of program development. ... Research relevant to User Driven Programming in general is covered as this could be applied to the problem in future.

The System Development Life Cycle by Michael Hart
[1] Identification of problems: The proposal to develop a the new information system started with a formal request resulting from the identification of existing problems identified in the current systems used in the mail order and wholesales business operations. ... e) Accounting: Financial accounting is the process of documenting the financial transactions resulting from the activities of an organisation almost all of which generate materials of this nature. ... Receipts are amounts received from debtors.

Automated Generation of Modelling Programs using Jena and Protégé by Peter Hale
Abstract This paper explains a technique of User Driven Model Development that could be part of a wider approach of User Driven Programming. This approach involves the creation of a visual environment for software development, where modelling programs can be created without the requirement of... Researchers could also create individual learning objects for education. ... Methodologies, Tools and Languages For Building Ontologies. ... Where is their Meeting Point?. ... Data and Knowledge Engineering, 46, 41-64.