Developing standards of professional activity with Semantic MediaWikiYury Katkov
The document discusses developing professional standards using a wiki-based solution. It outlines building standards by defining working functions that describe job tasks, skills, knowledge and qualities needed. People contribute by creating functions, voting, and evaluating them. The system structures functions into categories and qualification levels. It implements the standard structure and development process in Semantic MediaWiki, allowing voting, evaluation and exporting the final standard to Word. An initial pilot to develop a manager standard was partly accepted by the government.
Today, as always, there are many different initiatives underway to help improve the way we develop software. The most popular and prevalent of which is the Agile Movement. One of the new kids on the block is the SEMAT initiative. As with any new initiative people are struggling to see how it fits into the world and how it relates to all the other things going on. For example does it improve or replace their current ways of working. Is it something like lean that supports and furthers the aims of the Agile Movement, or is it something like waterfall planning that is in opposition to an agile approach?
The good news is that both Agile and SEMAT promote non-prescriptive value-based philosophies that encourage software development teams to select and use whatever practices best fit their context and, most importantly, continuously inspect, adapt and improve their way of working. In this keynote we will look at how these two initiatives complement one another, providing the perfect foundation for teams that want to master the art of software development.
The document describes WikiVote!, a wiki-based online voting and evaluation tool. It can be used to collect input from stakeholders on various topics. WikiVote! allows creating surveys with different question types, collecting votes from participants in different groups, and dynamically updating questions based on previous answers. It also supports evaluating options against multiple criteria. The tool aims to provide an easy to use platform for participatory decision-making and consensus building.
Developing standards of professional activity with Semantic MediaWikiYury Katkov
The document discusses developing professional standards using a wiki-based solution. It outlines building standards by defining working functions that describe job tasks, skills, knowledge and qualities needed. People contribute by creating functions, voting, and evaluating them. The system structures functions into categories and qualification levels. It implements the standard structure and development process in Semantic MediaWiki, allowing voting, evaluation and exporting the final standard to Word. An initial pilot to develop a manager standard was partly accepted by the government.
Today, as always, there are many different initiatives underway to help improve the way we develop software. The most popular and prevalent of which is the Agile Movement. One of the new kids on the block is the SEMAT initiative. As with any new initiative people are struggling to see how it fits into the world and how it relates to all the other things going on. For example does it improve or replace their current ways of working. Is it something like lean that supports and furthers the aims of the Agile Movement, or is it something like waterfall planning that is in opposition to an agile approach?
The good news is that both Agile and SEMAT promote non-prescriptive value-based philosophies that encourage software development teams to select and use whatever practices best fit their context and, most importantly, continuously inspect, adapt and improve their way of working. In this keynote we will look at how these two initiatives complement one another, providing the perfect foundation for teams that want to master the art of software development.
The document describes WikiVote!, a wiki-based online voting and evaluation tool. It can be used to collect input from stakeholders on various topics. WikiVote! allows creating surveys with different question types, collecting votes from participants in different groups, and dynamically updating questions based on previous answers. It also supports evaluating options against multiple criteria. The tool aims to provide an easy to use platform for participatory decision-making and consensus building.