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... 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, Intranets, online resources, etc) and by instilling the habit of independent learning amongst its managers.

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. ... These organisations ensure that personal certification is fair, honest and independent of the organisations that provide the training, and accredit training suppliers to bring about a consistent quality of course delivery. ... ITIL has since become widely adopted across the world in both public and private sectors and is...

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. ... The purpose of the SEI (www.sei.cmu.edu) is to enable organisations to make measurable improvements in the way they deliver code, defect free, on time and within budget. ... The SEI has worked hard on establishing a model that enable organisations and people to understand where they are and where...

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...

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. ... To make this possible it is also important to examine visualisation, and visualisation techniques to create a human computer interface that allows non experts to create software. ... The research mainly concentrates on using the above technique for modelling, searching and sorting.

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... This ontology could then be read into a decision support system which outputs results in web formats, this would also allow information that is relevant to different faculties or organisations to be shared.

User Driven Modelling - Detailed Explanation - Part 1 - Research Aim by Peter Hale
This research arises out of projects to create systems to facilitate management of design and cost related knowledge within aerospace organisations, with the aim of using this knowledge to reduce the costs of designing and manufacturing products. This paper identifies ways that problems arising... If people could instruct a computer without this requirement they could concentrate all their effort on the problem to be solved. ... This is termed User Driven Programming (UDP) within this paper, and for the examples demonstrated the term User Driven Modelling (UDM) is used to explain the...

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... Software automation can also lead to improved documentation. ... Automation scripts are the ultimate way to document a process. ... A script that automates a process describes how to carry it out properly.

Research in Modelling Simulation and Collaboration Over the Web by Peter Hale
Collaboration, simulation and modelling have been investigated to assist us in determining the requirements for future research in modelling of problems. Huhns [1] and Paternò [2] both explain that alternatives to the current approach to software development are required. ... [7] Guibert N, Girard P, Guittet L, (2004), Example-based Programming: a pertinent visual approach for learning to program, University of Poitiers, Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces - Pages: 358 - 361 - ISBN:1-58113-867-9.