Essays on Iteration

Introduction

IT governance is mainly concerned with decision making and communication. This is because it was brought about by organizations’ desire to make good decisions concerning their IT functions and communicate them effectively. All organizations require IT governance to ensure that they adhere to organizational strategies and meet their objectives. Of utmost importance is compliance with regulations governing IT systems such as the regulation of server power consumption developed by the Environmental Protection Agency (Kadivar, 2011). As such, IT governance can be simply defined as the alignment of IT and business strategies in a structured manner to ensure that organizations ...

The purpose of this research is to aces the familiarity and perception of the people with dyslexia condition and understand dyslexia itself in both medical and educational standpoints. To assess the information, an open-ended questionnaire was used. Prevalence of the disease, its symptoms and management plans where the key concepts sought in the survey.

The following the guiding research questions

What is the ways educator and medical professionals define dyslexia and support What is the ways teacher and medical professionals define dyslexia and support individuals who suffer from the effects of these learning disabilities?

What are the best techniques should teachers use to teach students with dyslexia?

Which one is more efficient medication, medical professionals prescribe or solution ...

Introduction

The world of programming is huge and complex, so huge and complex that it can arguably be considered as an ecosystem on its own. There are numerous niches, product compatibilities, native programming languages, application program interfaces and platforms, among other possible variables that may be used for grouping and stratification. In this paper, the author focuses on one of the most commonly occurring problems in the realm of programming—compatibility. It is important to note, however, that the discussion was centered on one application development framework only and that is Apache Cordova (formerly known as Phone Gap, although some ...

Scrum is a development tool that is used to develop and sustain complex products. It is a frame work in which teams are able to undertake complex and dynamic problems, while creatively and productively creating and delivering products that have the highest possible value

Scrums is a framework used to develop and sustain products that are complex in nature.

Scrum is based on empirical processes control theory, it asserts that knowledge is derived from experience and making decision from what has already been ascertained. Applying an iterative and incremental approach makes it possible to optimize, predict and control risk, three pillars which uphold ever implementation of empirical process control: transparency adaptation and inspection. As ...

Identifying the requirements

For a logo to be effective it requires to be simple, easy to remember, it is not necessary that a logo be graphically related to the organization it is representing, it may not make sense at all visually as brand but if it is simple and people can easily remember it, then it becomes very useful and powerful tool for branding. As far as requirements for a brand go, it is self explanatory; a logo is a simple identification mark that people can use to identify a company that is its only function. In Logo design there are no ...

INFORMATION SYSTEMS STRATEGY AND DEVELOPMENT

FOR PROJECT REVERIE

Executive Summary Software development methodologies (SSADM, DSDM, Agile and Extreme Programming) were examined for possible applications to Project REVERIE which is a prototyping project for social network communications and natural interaction in immersive environments over the internet. DSDM was chosen as the most suitable as it has the best balance of speed of delivery and a structured approach. The sensory interactive technologies in immersive environments lend well to the iterative, adaptive and flexible techniques of the agile programming methods such as DDMS. At the same time, DDMS still retains the disciplined structured process framework of the ...

Information Technology Project Management

Question 1 A project is defined as an endeavor that is temporary and creates a unique product or service. Project management is defined as the appropriate application and integration of project management processes, knowledge, skills, and tools to the project activities so that the project requirements are met, which typically include identifying and managing requirements and stakeholder requirements as well as ensuring that the project deliverables are created. It also includes managing the triple constraint (Figure 1) the scope, the schedule, and the budget. The budget, scope, and schedule are so constrained that they must remain in equilibrium. So, ...

Technology Marketing Strategy

will use content marketing as an instrument of creating its products in the market, pricing, and distribution as the main marketing strategies. The decision to use content marketing aims to build trust with prospective buyers of the company’s software and web products, create leads, and eventually translate the leads into actual sales. will use different tools for content marketing. Each tool will help in achieving specific objectives of the company, including the following;

Follow viable content plan

The content plan will contain the process and schedule of marketing software and web products in new markets. The process will have two ...

Agile , which means “the quality of being agile, readiness for motion, mibleness activity, dexterity in motion” is an alternative to conventional project management providing solution for light and fast software development required by business community, especially with rapidly developing Internet and mobile software areas (Abrahamsson et al. 7-17). Agile movement in software development possesses four core values. First, close relationship in a team of developers is much more important than processes and tools. Second, the most important goal for software developers is regularly release tested and improved software. Third, the emphasis is put on cooperative relationships between developers and ...

The article that I picked was titled ‘What it takes to deliver breakthrough customer experience’, and it was written by Xavier Lhuer, Tunde Olanrewaju and Hyo Yeon in November 2015. The article talks about seven aspects that need to be designed in such a way that they promote great customer experience. The greater customer experience results to greater clientele and thus more sales. Some of the seven aspects that the article refers to include the aspect of just conducting quantitative research on customers to measure their behavior. The article shows that it is important to spend time with the ...

A user story is a short description put in everyday language to represent a discrete piece of demonstrable functionality. It can also be described as a desirement, desirable outcome by a stakeholder or a request for software to change that stakeholders desire and perceive as a necessity. User story is used to quickly document a stakeholder’s desire without giving vast formalized details. User stories are used in agile development to provide a framework where the detail of the project can be understood and added as it is needed just enough and in time. In agile framework, the task of creating a user story is open to ...

The first table presented a matrix of correlations coefficients for Exam performance, Exam anxiety and Time spent revising. It was found that performance in exam was negatively linked to exam anxiety; the Pearson Correlation was r = −.441. P value was less than 0.05 so this relation is significant. It was also found that exam performance was significantly positively correlated to time spent revising; r = 0.3967 and p < 0.001. Lastly, exam anxiety appears to be significantly negatively linked to time spent revising (r = -0.709, p= 0.000). The above Descriptive table presented the mean and standard deviation of all the four ...

Part A –Theory

Question 1

An information systems project is assessed using a number of feasibility factors before the project is commenced. List and explain the purpose of each of these feasibility factors. Feasibility assessment is the study of how viable an investment idea is. It is the examination of the overall soundness of a project at the planning stage in order to determine whether to go on with it or not. The following are some of the feasibility factors;

- Financial aspect of the project- this evaluates the capital needs of the project and if the amount falls within the set framework. ...

Programming Logic

In any programming activity, one has to develop the simplest expression of the final program so as to help in creating the program. This program expression may be in form of a pseudo code or a flowchart or even both.

Ease arrangement of commands.

Easy monitoring of execution sequence. Simple to read, understand and create so as to assemble the main program. Does not depend on the programming language in compilation. However, some problems are attached to this program expression. They include: Difficulty in determining whether the sequence in correct or wrong. Most computers have programming languages that do not ...

A lifecycle model is a representation of “a model that captures a set of activities and how they are related” (Rogers et al., 2007, p. 444). Three of the lifecycle models used in HCI are the Star lifecycle; the Usability Engineering lifecycle; and the ISO 13407 Human-centered design processes for interactive systems.

The Star lifecycle model has its origins in empirical work that aimed to understand how designers dealt with HCI design problems. It has evaluation at its core and represents a process that’s flexible. This model was developed by Hatson and Hix who identified 2 activity modes in HCI, namely ...

Question 1

Iteration and recursion has been widely used in computer programming for a long time. Recursion is a function which calls itself many times until some condition is met. An example of recursion is in Fibonacci numbers. Recursion is used in this function. On the other hand iteration is used in situation where some part of a code is repeated many times until some condition has been met.

Question 2

There are four techniques that are widely used for reducing bugs that are found in arrays. The two techniques are static analysis, use of well established regression base, developing and making use of unit regression ...

Introduction

The essential aspects of software engineering project are the use of several agile software development techniques to improve the quality and the productivity of the software. Scrum is one such significant method that has greatly been used in the recent years to control the process of software development. According to Cohn (2010), we cannot change or improve what we cannot measure. With Scrum metrics, we can be able to measure and improve the software development process more effectively and efficiently. Scrum is defined as an iterative agile method of software development that can be used to manage and ...

Information system methodologies

Introduction System development methodologies will affect the way systems are developed. It is important to understand the requirements of the system can meet the objectives of the users of the system. Choosing the methodology that will be used in developing a system will determine the way the system will be developed and how the developers will interact with the system. This paper will focus on the development approaches for the Westminster case study and offer recommendations on the best approaches that can be used to develop the system that is required.

Agile planning refers to the repetitive process where ...

Software Engineering Life Cycle Models

In software engineering, a life cycle model is a framework that describes the activities that will be carried out during each phase of software development project. The discussion will focus on five software development models namely: the waterfall model, the spiral model, the v-shaped model, the iteration model, and the structured evolutionary prototyping model.

The Waterfall Model

This model is linearly sequential, resembling a series of cascades. It involves the following phases; establishing requirements, designing, implementation, testing, installation and maintenance. Each stage of this model produces a deliverable that is required by the next phase and the deliverable has to be completed before beginning the next ...

Executive Summary

Domino’s pizza undertook a digital transformation of letting customers place their orders through their app. The impact on the individuals of this is that the customers have more than one way to interact with the company. The company has more ways to interact with the customers as well. The same digital transformation can be done by other businesses in the free market, like KFC and McDonalds. The impact on the society of this digital transformation is that overall we as humans are becoming too reliant on technology. Instead of interacting with a human, we seem ok to interact with the ...

Introduction

The term “warehousing” can be understood in English as “a storehouse for depositing goods and merchandise”. Suppose that the goods and merchandise are nothing but our good old data – sales reports, statistics, and business transactions – this will constitute a “data warehouse”. The concept of data warehousing states that data from older system is copied into a new system dedicated entirely for analyzing data. Data warehouse will store a substantial amount of historical data. Users of this system are able to continuously ask or query it to retrieve data for analysis. Many organizations have adopted this concept to informed decisions faster through the historical ...

Introduction

In his Streichquartett, Beethoven takes motivic material generated in Theme Groups 1 and 2 of the sonata exposition, and expounds upon them in the different transitional sections of the piece. By utilizing these distinct motives in different textural and harmonic contexts, Beethoven creates a strong sense of unity within the piece as a whole, while also designing a unique identity for each section. The plan of this paper is first to identify the different areas where Beethoven borrows the motivic material and thus make explanations of the differences in existence as follows: Structural, harmonic and textural. The paper takes a vital interest on ...

Abstract

Project management is a process tasks and activities are planned, organized, assigned resources and executed within a given budget and period. There are several software management methodologies that are used in the process of managing a software project. Since there are many of the techniques and methods, this articles selects and analyzes some of them. This is to help managers in making a decision which tool to use depending on their needs. Methodology in software project management means a standard practice that sometimes with guides and procedures on how to carry out activities. Methodologies are sometimes diagrammed to illustrate procedures that project team members ...

Incremental model can be said to be an enhancement of the waterfall model. There are several waterfall approach done repeatedly in the development of the software. The software development cycles are split down into smaller pieces that are easily managed. Each of the iterations or the software version released go through the whole waterfall steps; requirements, design, implementation and testing phase (Pressman 52). Each iteration produces a working version of the software which is then tested. The software version is tested by the users and the developers to capture the misleading or misunderstood requirements. The following software development or ...

Question 1.ii

Three further considerations beyond financials include (1) stability and history of the SoAAS provider, as it will be very important that they stay in business and provide good service over the course of the contract to get the benefits; (2) the openness of the IT department to have primary IT functions controlled off-site, and how this would effect the relationship of this department with the rest of the company and (3) how confidential is the information to be stored and what are the back-up set ups of the service provider in case of catastrophe. If the information is highly ...

Algorithms and programming

1.1 stack The other function of the stack is to ensure logical organization of the variables for sequential retrieval. This function is very important since it allows the programmer to arrange how the instructions will be executed in the program to achieve the expected results. The process of retrieval is enabled by a register in the microprocessor of the machine called stack pointer. The third function of the stack is to maintain retrieval order of the local variables and parameters. This ensures that the program does not take long to execute since the required parameters are found in ...

Software development is a process that involves numerous procedures and consists of certain important stages. Due to its complicacy, it is reasonable to make use of some models that allow for making the process of development the most productive. If the most appropriate model is chosen, it will also allow for costs minimization and reaching the initial goals. Waterfall model is one of the most popular models known and widely used today around the world. It was first introduced in 1970 by Winston W. Royce and since then it has undergone a number of changes that keep it up-to-date and ...

1. Compute the largest lyapunov exponent for the map on the 2 dimensional plane x n+1 = where a is a real valued parameter

The limit defined by guarantees the validity of the linear approximation at any time of the operation.

Using the provided equation and matrix: x n+1 = , the highest value of a in the matrix is x n+1

Procedure

i. Starting with the initial condition in the basin of attraction, x n+1 ii. Iteration process until the orbit rests on the attractor iii. Selecting the nearby point with a separation of d0 d= [(xa - xb) ...

Evolution of Human Factors in Crew Resource Management

Executive Summary

Most aspects of aviation have radically changed since the advent of the first aircrafts in the late 19th century. With increasing technology in flight development, crew management protocols have also been changing ever since (Helmreich, Merritt, & Wilhelm, 1999. pp23-24). However, the last 50 years has witnessed the greatest improvement in the way crew management is carried out in various aviation settings. This paper shall determine the evolution of crew resource management considering all the factors that have changed in one way or the other, culminating into the modern aviation management protocols. Validation of the crew resource ...