This presentation shows the MCM (Maturity & Capability Models) repository initiative, discussing the opportunity from the LEGO approach in your organization
The LEGO Maturity & Capability Model ApproachLuigi Buglione
“Maturity model” (MM) (based on Crosby’s original idea) has been one of the main buzzwords over the past 20 years. A variety of MMs have been created in several application domains, from Software Engineering to Contract Management. Despite several models intending to cover the same domain, their PRMs (Process Reference Models) typically have different scopes, do not always cover the same set of processes, or have different levels of depth, or do not express the same level of granularity when describing concepts. Thus some important questions from the MM users’ viewpoint arise: how to choose the right models for our needs? After selecting those models, how to build a new, tailored MM based on several sources and customized to a specific domain? This paper motivates these important questions and proposes a way to choose, combine and adapt the contents from multiple MMs within a generic-domain approach we call ‘LEGO’ (Living EnGineering prOcess), based upon the well-known kids’ toy that stimulates creativity through combining different bricks. We present three case studies, one of them based upon the development of the Medi SPICE model, illustrating how the proposed approach may be used to develop MCM (Maturity & Capabilty Models) in this context.
Virtual reality of modern education: The experience of distance learning in Thailand
November 22, 2012
Event:
http://conf.mggu-sh.ru/src/event/vrme-2012/schedule.php
II Международная научно-практическая Интернет-конференция
"ВИРТУАЛЬНАЯ РЕАЛЬНОСТЬ СОВРЕМЕННОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ"
Московский государственный гуманитарный университет им. М.А. Шолохова,
Институт информатизации образования
Москва, 19-22 ноября 2012 г.
The document invites stakeholders to attend a series of talks on topics related to ICT during National ICT Month. The talks will cover ICT in education, free and open source software, e-governance, PC maintenance and recycling, and web programming. The activities will be held from June 21-25, 2010 at the CICT-NCC office and will include exhibits showcasing ICT projects for education. Attendees are asked to RSVP by emailing the contact persons by the deadline since space is limited. The attached program details the schedule of talks and sessions across the five days.
Multimedia Processing on Multimedia Semantics and Multimedia ContextRalf Klamma
The 10thWorkshop on Multimedia Metadata (SeMuDaTe‘09)
Yiwei Cao, Ralf Klamma, and Dejan KovachevI
Informatik 5 (Information Systems), RWTH Aachen University
2.12.2009
Graz, Austria
EMJD: Provisions for Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate candidates and overall pr...EMAP Project
Presentation by Lucio Marcenaro from University of Genova. Presentation was held at the EMAP training seminar in Tallinn for future Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorates consortia (18-21 January 2012). For video see http://vimeo.com/38025271.
Accessing and utilising Smart Venues for experiments and pilotsexperimedia
The document discusses EXPERIMEDIA, a project that aims to evaluate future internet technologies through experiments in real-world "smart venues". It outlines EXPERIMEDIA's goals of integrating technologies, understanding user experiences, and providing insights. Smart venues like hotels and conference centers will serve as testbeds. The methodology involves assessing user/business values and privacy impacts. The architecture supports evolving requirements, integration, experimentation and privacy/security while enabling content and experimental lifecycles. Capability and technology models map technologies to functions like social networking, audio/visual, and experimentation.
This document provides an overview of a Microsoft e-learning course on digital lifestyles. The course contains information on digital audio, video, and photography. It also discusses career opportunities in digital technology. The course contains modules on the modern digital experience and specific digital media like audio and video. It aims to explain the role of digital technology in daily life and introduce basic concepts and features of digital media formats.
Strategic Options and Results of Introducing Blended Learning at the National University of Rwanda discusses introducing blended learning at the National University of Rwanda. It describes the challenges faced by the university including lack of infrastructure, resources, and qualified teachers. It also outlines the opportunities provided by growing ICT access in Rwanda. The document details how blended learning using open educational resources was implemented for an introductory physics course. Students engaged with course materials online and collaboratively before in-person lectures. Assessment found students performed better and were more satisfied with blended learning compared to traditional methods.
The LEGO Maturity & Capability Model ApproachLuigi Buglione
“Maturity model” (MM) (based on Crosby’s original idea) has been one of the main buzzwords over the past 20 years. A variety of MMs have been created in several application domains, from Software Engineering to Contract Management. Despite several models intending to cover the same domain, their PRMs (Process Reference Models) typically have different scopes, do not always cover the same set of processes, or have different levels of depth, or do not express the same level of granularity when describing concepts. Thus some important questions from the MM users’ viewpoint arise: how to choose the right models for our needs? After selecting those models, how to build a new, tailored MM based on several sources and customized to a specific domain? This paper motivates these important questions and proposes a way to choose, combine and adapt the contents from multiple MMs within a generic-domain approach we call ‘LEGO’ (Living EnGineering prOcess), based upon the well-known kids’ toy that stimulates creativity through combining different bricks. We present three case studies, one of them based upon the development of the Medi SPICE model, illustrating how the proposed approach may be used to develop MCM (Maturity & Capabilty Models) in this context.
Virtual reality of modern education: The experience of distance learning in Thailand
November 22, 2012
Event:
http://conf.mggu-sh.ru/src/event/vrme-2012/schedule.php
II Международная научно-практическая Интернет-конференция
"ВИРТУАЛЬНАЯ РЕАЛЬНОСТЬ СОВРЕМЕННОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ"
Московский государственный гуманитарный университет им. М.А. Шолохова,
Институт информатизации образования
Москва, 19-22 ноября 2012 г.
The document invites stakeholders to attend a series of talks on topics related to ICT during National ICT Month. The talks will cover ICT in education, free and open source software, e-governance, PC maintenance and recycling, and web programming. The activities will be held from June 21-25, 2010 at the CICT-NCC office and will include exhibits showcasing ICT projects for education. Attendees are asked to RSVP by emailing the contact persons by the deadline since space is limited. The attached program details the schedule of talks and sessions across the five days.
Multimedia Processing on Multimedia Semantics and Multimedia ContextRalf Klamma
The 10thWorkshop on Multimedia Metadata (SeMuDaTe‘09)
Yiwei Cao, Ralf Klamma, and Dejan KovachevI
Informatik 5 (Information Systems), RWTH Aachen University
2.12.2009
Graz, Austria
EMJD: Provisions for Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate candidates and overall pr...EMAP Project
Presentation by Lucio Marcenaro from University of Genova. Presentation was held at the EMAP training seminar in Tallinn for future Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorates consortia (18-21 January 2012). For video see http://vimeo.com/38025271.
Accessing and utilising Smart Venues for experiments and pilotsexperimedia
The document discusses EXPERIMEDIA, a project that aims to evaluate future internet technologies through experiments in real-world "smart venues". It outlines EXPERIMEDIA's goals of integrating technologies, understanding user experiences, and providing insights. Smart venues like hotels and conference centers will serve as testbeds. The methodology involves assessing user/business values and privacy impacts. The architecture supports evolving requirements, integration, experimentation and privacy/security while enabling content and experimental lifecycles. Capability and technology models map technologies to functions like social networking, audio/visual, and experimentation.
This document provides an overview of a Microsoft e-learning course on digital lifestyles. The course contains information on digital audio, video, and photography. It also discusses career opportunities in digital technology. The course contains modules on the modern digital experience and specific digital media like audio and video. It aims to explain the role of digital technology in daily life and introduce basic concepts and features of digital media formats.
Strategic Options and Results of Introducing Blended Learning at the National University of Rwanda discusses introducing blended learning at the National University of Rwanda. It describes the challenges faced by the university including lack of infrastructure, resources, and qualified teachers. It also outlines the opportunities provided by growing ICT access in Rwanda. The document details how blended learning using open educational resources was implemented for an introductory physics course. Students engaged with course materials online and collaboratively before in-person lectures. Assessment found students performed better and were more satisfied with blended learning compared to traditional methods.
Talk given at WCC2010 in Brisbane (KCKS 2010); Title:
EU Project MATURE / R&D RG DDI: ICT-Support for Knowledge Maturing in Learning Organizations and Communities
Ahmet Soylu defended his PhD thesis at KU Leuven in Belgium on developing approaches for abstract development, widgetization, and personal environments. His research addressed challenges from both developer and end-user perspectives in pervasive computing. Key contributions included a two-use of ontologies methodology, techniques for extracting and presenting embedded semantics from documents as widgets, and an interoperability framework for end-user orchestration of personalized environments using mined behavior patterns. Future work areas are improving the logic layer for ontology transformations, standardizing widget interactions, and addressing concept drift in online pattern learning.
(1) The document discusses emerging technologies including pervasive computing, wearable computing, intelligent agents, and the semantic web. It summarizes research being done at UMBC on intelligent, pervasive computing. (2) The research aims to embed computing into everyday life so that it is as natural as using ordinary objects. Challenges include developing standards and social technologies. (3) The document concludes by noting that the evolution of useful technologies takes incremental steps over time, enabled by the semantic web and wireless communication.
A brief retrospective of selected projects elaborated at the Multimedia and Vision Laboratory in the Universidad del Valle. This talk was presented by teleconference to Universidad Señor de Sipán, Peru.
Reflection Support for Communities on the WebRalf Klamma
This document describes TeLLNet, a research project that aims to support communities on the web through reflection. It discusses community information systems, modeling community dependencies using the i* framework, analyzing social networks and disturbances in communities, and applying these techniques to case studies of open source software communities and a knowledge network of computer science research. The goal is to help communities better understand themselves and their learning and collaboration processes through reflective social network analysis and visualization tools.
The Politecnico di Milano is a leading technical university in Italy established in 1863. It has over 40,000 students spread across 7 campuses in Milan and other cities. The university is known for its schools of architecture, design, and engineering and produces many of Italy's engineers, architects, and industrial designers. It offers innovative degree programs and engages in cutting-edge research through over 130 laboratories.
The document describes the scope, purpose and methodology used to identify 20 best practice cases of Information Literacy development initiatives in Europe. It aimed to find programs that illustrated strategic, coherent approaches to IL education across different sectors. Selection criteria included the country, funding source, focus/type, learning sector, literacy area, and range/stakeholders of each initiative. The best cases were meant to exemplify how to change IL policy at the EU level, as currently most activities are ad hoc and fragmented. It was difficult to evaluate initiatives due to lack of complete information, but formal criteria like illustrating the EMPATIC goals and having clear descriptions were used.
Presentation to the 1st year students in Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology in University Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Kampar Campus, Malaysia.
Main Content:
1. Statistics of ICT job market in Malaysia.
2. 10 commandments for success in ICT career
The document outlines a proposal for a Virtual Campus Hub that would allow universities and research organizations to more easily collaborate across borders through a shared technological platform, demonstrating functionality like video conferencing, access to learning materials, and exchange of program data, with the goal of boosting integration in sustainable energy education, research, and innovation. Key infrastructure needs include federated authentication, group management, and standards for exchanging user and program information between different university systems.
The document discusses the EXPERIMEDIA project which aims to accelerate research on the Future Media Internet through experimental testbeds. It will create "smart venues" like sports centers and cultural sites to explore new forms of social interaction and experiences that blend the online and real world. The project seeks to engage diverse user communities in its research and development cycle to gain insights. It will issue competitive calls to fund experiments in areas like live spectator sports and collaborative sports training.
Pal gov.tutorial1.session8.national student registryMustafa Jarrar
This document provides an outline for a tutorial on data and business process modeling. It discusses building a conceptual data model for a national student registry in Palestine using ORM. Students will work in groups to design a conceptual model capturing the necessary data about students, universities, programs, courses, semesters, marks and averages. The models will then be presented to collect feedback before submitting a final conceptual model and generated database schema.
The document describes the NICAM approach in the Netherlands for classifying and providing information about audiovisual media content to help protect children. It discusses NICAM systems for television, film, DVDs and games which provide uniform classification and labeling. It also outlines two related projects - Project Buro 240a which aims to improve enforcement of laws restricting access to certain content by minors, and MediaSmarties, a 3-year pilot project to develop an online "suitability" information system with recommendations for media suitable for young children.
Ticet 2012 conference: elearning Virtual Centres Miguel Gea
The role of an e-leaning Centre in Higher Education Institutions
1st International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Education & Training, Hammamet (Tunis) 2012
http://www.ticet.org/
Estimation represents one of the most critical processes for any project and it is highly dependent on the quality of requirements elicitation and management. Therefore, the management of requirements should be prioritised in any process improvement program, because the less precise the requirements gathering, analysis and sizing, the greater the error in terms of time and cost estimation. Maturity and Capability Models (MCM) represent a good tool for assessing the status of a set of processes, but an inner limit of any model is its scope and approach for describing a certain issue. Thus, integrating two or more models with a common area of focus can offer more information and value for an organization, keeping the best components from each model. LEGO (Living EnGineering prOcess) is an approach projected for this purpose. This paper proposes a LEGO application hybridizing a ‘horizontal’ model (a MM containing processes going through the complete supply chain, from requirements right through to delivery, e.g. CMMI or ISO 12207/15504) with a few specific ‘vertical’ models (MMs with focus on a single perspective or process category, e.g. TMMi or TPI in the Test Management domain, P3M3 and OPM3 in the Project Management domain) for Requirement Engineering.
Towards an Effective Process Improvement Platform: Spago4Q and the QEST nD Mo...SpagoWorld
The presentation supported the speech by Luigi Buglione, Process Improvement & Measurement Specialist, Industry Division, Engineering Group, entitled "Towards an Effective Process Improvement Platform: Spago4Q and the QEST nD Model" at EuroMed SPI & CEE SPI Conference, taking place on 18th and 19th October 2010 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
This document provides an overview of the IMAGINE project, which aims to develop an innovative framework for effectively managing dynamic manufacturing networks. The 3 year project involves 14 organizations from 10 countries and is coordinated by INTRASOFT International S.A. The framework will be validated in 5 living labs and is expected to reduce costs and times associated with network design, production, and delivery while improving resource utilization and quality assurance. The project seeks involvement from industry, SMEs, and the scientific community.
Talk given at WCC2010 in Brisbane (KCKS 2010); Title:
EU Project MATURE / R&D RG DDI: ICT-Support for Knowledge Maturing in Learning Organizations and Communities
Ahmet Soylu defended his PhD thesis at KU Leuven in Belgium on developing approaches for abstract development, widgetization, and personal environments. His research addressed challenges from both developer and end-user perspectives in pervasive computing. Key contributions included a two-use of ontologies methodology, techniques for extracting and presenting embedded semantics from documents as widgets, and an interoperability framework for end-user orchestration of personalized environments using mined behavior patterns. Future work areas are improving the logic layer for ontology transformations, standardizing widget interactions, and addressing concept drift in online pattern learning.
(1) The document discusses emerging technologies including pervasive computing, wearable computing, intelligent agents, and the semantic web. It summarizes research being done at UMBC on intelligent, pervasive computing. (2) The research aims to embed computing into everyday life so that it is as natural as using ordinary objects. Challenges include developing standards and social technologies. (3) The document concludes by noting that the evolution of useful technologies takes incremental steps over time, enabled by the semantic web and wireless communication.
A brief retrospective of selected projects elaborated at the Multimedia and Vision Laboratory in the Universidad del Valle. This talk was presented by teleconference to Universidad Señor de Sipán, Peru.
Reflection Support for Communities on the WebRalf Klamma
This document describes TeLLNet, a research project that aims to support communities on the web through reflection. It discusses community information systems, modeling community dependencies using the i* framework, analyzing social networks and disturbances in communities, and applying these techniques to case studies of open source software communities and a knowledge network of computer science research. The goal is to help communities better understand themselves and their learning and collaboration processes through reflective social network analysis and visualization tools.
The Politecnico di Milano is a leading technical university in Italy established in 1863. It has over 40,000 students spread across 7 campuses in Milan and other cities. The university is known for its schools of architecture, design, and engineering and produces many of Italy's engineers, architects, and industrial designers. It offers innovative degree programs and engages in cutting-edge research through over 130 laboratories.
The document describes the scope, purpose and methodology used to identify 20 best practice cases of Information Literacy development initiatives in Europe. It aimed to find programs that illustrated strategic, coherent approaches to IL education across different sectors. Selection criteria included the country, funding source, focus/type, learning sector, literacy area, and range/stakeholders of each initiative. The best cases were meant to exemplify how to change IL policy at the EU level, as currently most activities are ad hoc and fragmented. It was difficult to evaluate initiatives due to lack of complete information, but formal criteria like illustrating the EMPATIC goals and having clear descriptions were used.
Presentation to the 1st year students in Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology in University Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Kampar Campus, Malaysia.
Main Content:
1. Statistics of ICT job market in Malaysia.
2. 10 commandments for success in ICT career
The document outlines a proposal for a Virtual Campus Hub that would allow universities and research organizations to more easily collaborate across borders through a shared technological platform, demonstrating functionality like video conferencing, access to learning materials, and exchange of program data, with the goal of boosting integration in sustainable energy education, research, and innovation. Key infrastructure needs include federated authentication, group management, and standards for exchanging user and program information between different university systems.
The document discusses the EXPERIMEDIA project which aims to accelerate research on the Future Media Internet through experimental testbeds. It will create "smart venues" like sports centers and cultural sites to explore new forms of social interaction and experiences that blend the online and real world. The project seeks to engage diverse user communities in its research and development cycle to gain insights. It will issue competitive calls to fund experiments in areas like live spectator sports and collaborative sports training.
Pal gov.tutorial1.session8.national student registryMustafa Jarrar
This document provides an outline for a tutorial on data and business process modeling. It discusses building a conceptual data model for a national student registry in Palestine using ORM. Students will work in groups to design a conceptual model capturing the necessary data about students, universities, programs, courses, semesters, marks and averages. The models will then be presented to collect feedback before submitting a final conceptual model and generated database schema.
The document describes the NICAM approach in the Netherlands for classifying and providing information about audiovisual media content to help protect children. It discusses NICAM systems for television, film, DVDs and games which provide uniform classification and labeling. It also outlines two related projects - Project Buro 240a which aims to improve enforcement of laws restricting access to certain content by minors, and MediaSmarties, a 3-year pilot project to develop an online "suitability" information system with recommendations for media suitable for young children.
Ticet 2012 conference: elearning Virtual Centres Miguel Gea
The role of an e-leaning Centre in Higher Education Institutions
1st International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Education & Training, Hammamet (Tunis) 2012
http://www.ticet.org/
Estimation represents one of the most critical processes for any project and it is highly dependent on the quality of requirements elicitation and management. Therefore, the management of requirements should be prioritised in any process improvement program, because the less precise the requirements gathering, analysis and sizing, the greater the error in terms of time and cost estimation. Maturity and Capability Models (MCM) represent a good tool for assessing the status of a set of processes, but an inner limit of any model is its scope and approach for describing a certain issue. Thus, integrating two or more models with a common area of focus can offer more information and value for an organization, keeping the best components from each model. LEGO (Living EnGineering prOcess) is an approach projected for this purpose. This paper proposes a LEGO application hybridizing a ‘horizontal’ model (a MM containing processes going through the complete supply chain, from requirements right through to delivery, e.g. CMMI or ISO 12207/15504) with a few specific ‘vertical’ models (MMs with focus on a single perspective or process category, e.g. TMMi or TPI in the Test Management domain, P3M3 and OPM3 in the Project Management domain) for Requirement Engineering.
Towards an Effective Process Improvement Platform: Spago4Q and the QEST nD Mo...SpagoWorld
The presentation supported the speech by Luigi Buglione, Process Improvement & Measurement Specialist, Industry Division, Engineering Group, entitled "Towards an Effective Process Improvement Platform: Spago4Q and the QEST nD Model" at EuroMed SPI & CEE SPI Conference, taking place on 18th and 19th October 2010 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
This document provides an overview of the IMAGINE project, which aims to develop an innovative framework for effectively managing dynamic manufacturing networks. The 3 year project involves 14 organizations from 10 countries and is coordinated by INTRASOFT International S.A. The framework will be validated in 5 living labs and is expected to reduce costs and times associated with network design, production, and delivery while improving resource utilization and quality assurance. The project seeks involvement from industry, SMEs, and the scientific community.
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This document discusses efficiency and information management in peer-to-peer systems. It covers trends in peer-to-peer research where quality aspects such as reliability, adaptability, and efficiency are gaining importance as applications become more complex. It also presents approaches for quality of service and emergency call handling in peer-to-peer overlays, as well as a vision for an efficiency management system to optimize resource usage across overlays.
Knowledge mining and Semantic Models: from Cloud to Smart CityPaolo Nesi
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There is a growing interest during last years in a better understanding of the inner meaning of ‘product value’ as perceived from the final customer, looking at possible techniques and new ways to anticipate and better capturing requirements from early stages. But even if more and more professionals and IT organizations achieve certifications on their personal knowledge or organizational maturity that should go in that direction, few attention is paid to the project closure phase and to the historicization of project data. If planned and gathered at the right level of granularity, effort data could explain and represent a valuable knowledge base – jointly with some requirement metrics - about how to create and reinforce the value to deliver to customer. This paper provides a list of possible improvement actions derived from practical experience that can bring more value to software products moving from better and more accurate project management and measurement processes.
Join the discussion with largest service provider (AT&T, Telefonica and DT) to discuss the paradigm of Open, Programmable and Automated Software Define Network. Standardization of device Yang data model (OpenROADM and OpenConfig) and definition of common API to export device, node and network models are critical element to enable Self Driving (Autonomous) Network.
Apollon - 22/5/12 - 09:00 - User-driven Open Innovation Ecosystemsimec.archive
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ICT research in the context of European Union
CASE SUMMER SCHOOL ON APPLIED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
APPLIED SOFTWARE PROCESS MANAGEMENT AND TESTING
JULY 6-10, 2009, BOZEN/BOLZANO, ITALY
The document discusses Engineering, a leading Italian IT services company, and its focus on exploiting the outcomes of its research and innovation activities. It provides an overview of Engineering's business, research division, innovation model, and approach to collaborating internally between its business units and research labs to ensure research projects have market applicability and outcomes.
SCAPE - Building Digital Preservation InfrastructureSCAPE Project
Dr. Ross King, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, gave an invited talk about the FP7 project SCAPE at the eSciDoc Days in Berlin, October 27, 2011, https://www.escidoc.org/JSPWiki/en/ESciDocDays.
This document provides an overview of the content that will be covered in the SPM 1012: Telecommunication and Networking course. The course will introduce students to technologies and devices used for computer networking and internet access. Key topics that will be covered include fundamentals of data communication, telecommunication facilities, network topology, internet technology and applications, and social and ethical issues related to web resources. Students will learn about hardware, software, data, procedures, communication methods, and people involved in computer and telecommunication systems. Assignments include developing a basic website and a report on networking setup in a school. Student learning outcomes, assessment methods, and course grading are also outlined.
The document discusses EGEE-III, the third phase of the EGEE program to operate a large-scale, production quality Grid infrastructure for e-science. Key objectives of EGEE-III include expanding and optimizing the existing infrastructure to include more resources and user communities, and preparing a transition to a sustainable federated infrastructure based on National Grid Initiatives. EGEE-III will be co-funded by the European Commission over 2 years with a budget of €32 million, representing less than 1/3 of total project costs.
Liuba Poli is an Italian system engineer working for Ericsson TEI since 2010. She has over 30 years of experience in telecommunications, starting at Olivetti in 1986. Her experience includes roles in software development, network infrastructure, product management, and leadership. Currently, her focus is on software-defined networking and the development of multi-domain transport network controllers.
The Collaboratory, Videoconferencing, and Collaboration ...Videoguy
This document reports on efforts investigating videoconferencing and collaboration technologies at the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications. It describes the Collaboratory setting where this work takes place and reviews research on using videoconferencing in telemedicine and distance education. Specific videoconferencing and collaboration tools currently used in the Collaboratory are outlined. Observations from experimenting with these technologies are presented and future work is proposed at the theoretical, programmatic, and technical levels.
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Risk Management: Achieving Higher Maturity & Capability Levels through the LE...Luigi Buglione
A common challenge in life is to evaluate and deal with risks. Even though Risk management is fundamental to any activity, it is too often evaluated and managed from a qualitative rather than a quantitative perspective. In order to improve, too often organizations are seeking compliance against a single model/approach, forgetting that most often ‘one model doesn’t fit all’ and that the target process model is the organizational one, strengthened by external best practices. An approach to process improvement that takes this into consideration is LEGO (Living EnGineering prOcess). LEGO extracts the most useful Elements of Interest (EoI) from several types of maturity models into an organizational Business Process Model (BPM) in order to facilitate to the achievement of higher organizational maturity and capability levels, that’s the definitive intended target to be improved. This paper applies the LEGO approach to Risk Management, analyzing several Risk Management Maturity Models and unifying their practices in order to come up with a more comprehensive process model on risk management integrating multiple views.
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The Significance of IFPUG Base Functionality Types in Effort Estimation - An ...Luigi Buglione
This document presents an empirical study on using different IFPUG base functionality types (BFCs) like external inputs, external outputs, external queries, internal logical files, and external interface files in effort estimation. The study uses project data from the ISBSG repository containing information on functional size, effort, application type, development type, and other attributes. Statistical analysis is performed on various subsets of the data based on filters. The results show that using multiple BFCs together in estimation, instead of just total function points, increases the correlation with effort significantly. This implies BFC types should be considered to obtain better estimation accuracy.
In Information and Communication Technology (ICT) a ‘deliverable’ may be either software (perceived as an ‘output’) or a service (perceived as an ‘outcome’). On the one hand, the differences between software and service have led to the design of parallel models and lifecycles with more commonalities than differences, thereby not supporting the adoption of different frameworks. For instance, a software project could be managed applying best practices for services (e.g. ITIL), while some processes (e.g. Verification & Validation) are better defined in models of the Software Management domain. Thus, this paper aims at reconciling these differences and provides suggestions for a better joint usage of models/frameworks. To unify existing models we use the LEGO approach, which aims at keeping the element of interest from any potential model/framework for being inserted in the process architecture of the target Business Process Model (BPM) of an organization, strengthening the organizational way of working. An example of a LEGO application is presented to show the benefit from the joint view of the ‘software + service’ sides as a whole across the project lifecycle, increasing the opportunity to have many more sources for this type of improvement task.
A Murphological View on Software Measurement: a serious joke or a funny seri...Luigi Buglione
The 30-year experience from the Software Measurement field explains that a strong resistance usually comes from project team members, supposing the real objective is a personal evaluation on their performance and not a neutral measurement for a concrete process improvement. Concurrently, from the middle ‘80s a series of SPI models - such as the Software Capability Maturity Model (Sw-CMM) and nowadays its evolution, the CMMI –provided a guide for realizing a real improvement, where measurement played an important role, before as a Common Feature, then as a separate process (MA – Measurement and Analysis) at Level 2. But a certain resistance still remain alive also after these years.
Recently, in the Management field (and also in ICT) more than “serious” books and reference guides it seems that (apparent) semi-serious publications such as the Dilbert strips by Scott Adams are referenced in technical presentations and papers as a starting point for commenting daily ICT malpractices. If so, another good source for “joking” with such serious things are some of the most know laws, the “Murphy’s laws”, originally written by Arthur Block and after created/modified by plenty of people worldwide and published over the Internet in a sort of “GNU licence for humour”.
This paper tries to propose a “murphological view” on Software Measurement issues, commenting some related measurement-related laws and providing links with main SPI practices at the aim to reduce the percentage of failures in application of Software Measurement programs, as noted by H.Rubin some years ago.
Do we really re-use our knowledge (or not)?Luigi Buglione
Looking back to the last 25 years in IT, one of the most used, practical IT ‘inventions’ has been the ‘cut & paste’ mechanism, that’s a reuse of a previous artefact. But looking to ICT organizations in these turbulent years – no matter if they deal with software and/ services – many of them seem to do not be designed for resilience. From a root-cause analysis (RCA), one of the main ‘bones’ for improvement is the lack of reuse of organizations’ experience, in terms of historical data, artefacts, processes, etc.
Thus, re-using the ‘internal knowledge’ (before thinking to software reuse) is – as many Process Improvement models like MPS.BR (both the SW and the SV constellations) affirm – one of the real ‘wheels’ driving an organization to achieve success, measured not only by ROI but also by VOI (Value on Investment), because the more and more relevance in understanding the role and value of intangibles in our business.
The keynote presentation will move from evidences and well-known industrial stories for discussing and understanding where knowledge has (or not) been the key driver for organizational success, which possible barriers to that and how multi-model approaches as LEGO (Living EnGineering prOcess) could help an organization in achieving such goals in an easier way, betting mostly on people knowledge, as the ‘building perspective’ also looking to the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) schema and logical flow.
Balanced Measurement Sets: Criteria for Improving Project Management PracticesLuigi Buglione
The availability of a measurement framework right at the early stage of a project can have a very positive impact in the management of software development process. In this paper, we cope with this problem proposing a methodology that can allow an early adoption of balanced measurement sets, which will be iteratively refined at each iteration of the process. The proposed methodology can be implemented and supported by open source tools like the Spago4Q platform.
PIF or SNAP? That's the Question! Or maybe it's not? - A panelLuigi Buglione
The presentation introduced a panel organized at IWSM-MENSURA 2014 by MAIN (Metrics Associations' International Network - www.mai-net.org) about the value and way to deal with NFRs in a software project, using a series of PIF (Productivity Impact Factors) for calibrating your project effort or a specific sizing unit? That's the (discussed) question!
Software Sustainability: a Broader PerspectiveLuigi Buglione
In this presentation the approach to address software sustainability evaluation is discussed. We believe that software sustainability is a complex business to be addressed by including the largest set of indicators from software development, use, maintenance and disposal.
An ISO/IEC 33000-compliant Measurement Framework for Software Process Sustain...Luigi Buglione
ICT can provide a definitive contribution in reducing CO2 emissions and, in general, in the environment preservation. Because its pervasiveness in today’s life, software in particular plays an important role in achieving such a goal. Software process is the combination of those practices, directly or indirectly involved in software development, operation, and maintenance.
In previous papers the authors addressed the topic of evaluating the sustainability of software products. In this paper the focus is on the evaluation of the sustainability of the software process, i.e. the measurement of the extent the process is performed by having care of the environment and by minimizing its impact on the environment. To do that, a sustainability measurement framework for software process is defined. Such a framework is composed by Sustainability Levels, Sustainability Process Attributes and being compliant with the requirements stated in the new ISO/IEC 33000 series standard for software process assessment.
Measurement Process: Improving the ISO 15939 StandardLuigi Buglione
Over the past few years ISO has published a number of specific standards detailing processes included in a generic form in software development life cycle models. ISO 15939 on the Measurement process itself is an example of such specific ISO standard. This paper presents some suggestions for improvements to its Measurement Information Model and to the measurement plan within the planning process of ISO 15939.
This document discusses measuring and evaluating productivity for both functional and non-functional requirements (NFRs). It describes SNAP (Software Non-functional Assessment Process), a new NFR sizing method developed by IFPUG. SNAP divides NFRs into categories and sub-categories to assign size in SNAP Points. The document advocates measuring both functional size units (FSUs) and non-functional size units (NFSUs) to more accurately evaluate overall productivity. It provides an example of how to incorporate NFR-related tasks into work breakdown structures and schedules.
The LEGO Strategy: Guidelines for a Profitable DeploymentLuigi Buglione
When dealing with improvements, organizations seek to find a break-even point for their applications as early as possible in order to maximize the return from their investment. However, in some cases such a strategy can lead to a long term failure by not realizing the full benefits, when focusing only on a short term. The LEGO (Living EnGineering prOcess) approach – a method for building your own process meta-model based on multiple inputs – is a way to make an organization more efficient and effective, optimizing resources, as well as time and costs through looking at its entire Business Process Model. This paper introduces the elements for designing a strategy for a more valuable deployment of a process improvement initiative, in order to optimize the choice of the models and elements to be considered as an input to the LEGO approach
ICEBERG: a different look at Software Project ManagementLuigi Buglione
Every project – whatever the application field – should be managed taking into account at least four dimensions: Time, Cost, Quality and Risk. To manage these dimensions, a key tool for a Project Manager is to increase project visibility, defined as the amount of information about the project associated with its probability of occurrence. This paper uses the “iceberg” metaphor to introduce the ICEBERG (Improvement after Control and Evaluation-BasEd Rules and Guidelines) approach that can help Project Managers through the use of standard (de jure and de facto) ICT methods and techniques. This approach focuses not only on the management, and measurement, of resources, process and product, but also of the project and the organization itself. A list of candidate measures related to these 5 entities is suggested for a comprehensive software measurement plan in order to reduce project risk.
Improving Measurement Plans from multiple dimensions: Exercising with Balanci...Luigi Buglione
“Tracking & Control” activities in software projects are most often based, in industry, on just two dimensions of analysis: time and cost. Most often, ‘tracking & control’ excludes other dimensions (such as quality, risks & impact on society, stakeholders’ viewpoint in a broader sense) taken into account in Performance Management models such as EFQM or the Malcolm Baldridge model. How can balancing those multiple concurrent control mechanisms across several dimensions of analysis be done? Balancing Multiple Perspective (BMPs) is a procedure designed to help project managers choose a set of project indicators from several concurrent viewpoints. This paper also presents the related questionnaire with a list of 14 candidate measures helping to compare the “as-is” situation and to figure out what will be the desired one, including cost figures to be possibly considered in the budget for next projects.
Improving the User Story Agile Technique Using the INVEST CriteriaLuigi Buglione
Although the Agile Software Development (ADS) approach has been around for the last 15 years, it is only recently that attention has moved towards Agile Software Management (ASM) for tackling some of the management-related weaknesses, such as estimating on the basis of User Story points. This paper presents an application of the INVEST criteria (Independent – Negotiable – Valuable – Estimable – Small –Testable) for improving the measurement technique of User Stories, introducing sizing units and a technique to negotiate requirements. It includes a discussion on an approach to balancing the six criteria used to evaluate a set of User Stories in a Sprint.
During the past 20 years Maturity & Capability Models (MCMs) become a buzzword in the ICT world. Since the initial Crosby’s idea in 1979, plenty of models have been created in the Software & Systems Engineering domains, addressing various perspectives. By analyzing the content of the Process Reference Models (PRM) in many of them, it can be noticed that reuse-related issues have unfortunately often little importance in the appraisals of the capabilities of software organizations while in practice they are considered as significant contributors in traditional process and organizational performance appraisals. While MCMs represent a good mean for assessing the status of a set of processes, integrating two or more models with a common area of focus can offer more information and value for an organization. The aim of this paper is to present some information about Reuse best practices and models, keep the best components from each model and – using the LEGO (Living EnGineering prOcess) approach to process improvement - merge those best practices from several types of maturity models into an organizational Business Process Model (BPM) in order to achieve in an easier and faster way higher organizational maturity and capability levels.
Best practices for project execution and deliveryCLIVE MINCHIN
A select set of project management best practices to keep your project on-track, on-cost and aligned to scope. Many firms have don't have the necessary skills, diligence, methods and oversight of their projects; this leads to slippage, higher costs and longer timeframes. Often firms have a history of projects that simply failed to move the needle. These best practices will help your firm avoid these pitfalls but they require fortitude to apply.
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Tata Group Dials Taiwan for Its Chipmaking Ambition in Gujarat’s DholeraAvirahi City Dholera
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The Evolution and Impact of OTT Platforms: A Deep Dive into the Future of Ent...ABHILASH DUTTA
This presentation provides a thorough examination of Over-the-Top (OTT) platforms, focusing on their development and substantial influence on the entertainment industry, with a particular emphasis on the Indian market.We begin with an introduction to OTT platforms, defining them as streaming services that deliver content directly over the internet, bypassing traditional broadcast channels. These platforms offer a variety of content, including movies, TV shows, and original productions, allowing users to access content on-demand across multiple devices.The historical context covers the early days of streaming, starting with Netflix's inception in 1997 as a DVD rental service and its transition to streaming in 2007. The presentation also highlights India's television journey, from the launch of Doordarshan in 1959 to the introduction of Direct-to-Home (DTH) satellite television in 2000, which expanded viewing choices and set the stage for the rise of OTT platforms like Big Flix, Ditto TV, Sony LIV, Hotstar, and Netflix. The business models of OTT platforms are explored in detail. Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD) models, exemplified by Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, offer unlimited content access for a monthly fee. Transactional Video on Demand (TVOD) models, like iTunes and Sky Box Office, allow users to pay for individual pieces of content. Advertising-Based Video on Demand (AVOD) models, such as YouTube and Facebook Watch, provide free content supported by advertisements. Hybrid models combine elements of SVOD and AVOD, offering flexibility to cater to diverse audience preferences.
Content acquisition strategies are also discussed, highlighting the dual approach of purchasing broadcasting rights for existing films and TV shows and investing in original content production. This section underscores the importance of a robust content library in attracting and retaining subscribers.The presentation addresses the challenges faced by OTT platforms, including the unpredictability of content acquisition and audience preferences. It emphasizes the difficulty of balancing content investment with returns in a competitive market, the high costs associated with marketing, and the need for continuous innovation and adaptation to stay relevant.
The impact of OTT platforms on the Bollywood film industry is significant. The competition for viewers has led to a decrease in cinema ticket sales, affecting the revenue of Bollywood films that traditionally rely on theatrical releases. Additionally, OTT platforms now pay less for film rights due to the uncertain success of films in cinemas.
Looking ahead, the future of OTT in India appears promising. The market is expected to grow by 20% annually, reaching a value of ₹1200 billion by the end of the decade. The increasing availability of affordable smartphones and internet access will drive this growth, making OTT platforms a primary source of entertainment for many viewers.
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Building a Maturity & Capability Model Repository
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Torre Canne (BA) – Italy, June 21 2011
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