Six Sigma Terms and Definitions

Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, and one of the most succesful corporate leaders ever, used Six Sigma as major Quality Improvement method. In his book Winning he writes:Six Sigma is one the biggest management innovations of the past 25 years. Six Sigma improves the development procedures, brings products faster to the market with less defects, and reduces cost. The biggest - but least

Open Source Software Advantages

Besides the low license cost, open source software often have other advantages that are more important:The right to modify the software: reach a detailed understanding of how the system works, unlimited tuning and improvement, easier to isolate bugs, extend the lifetime of an applicationredistrubite modifications and improvements, shared by large communities, attract new developers. large market

Adding More People Decreases Productivity and Quality

The more people you add to a project, the lower your per-person productivity and the higher the defect rate.After fixing all the defects, the quality of the code written by the larger group will be much poorer, resulting in long-term increased maintenance costs.Since software spends the vast majority of its useful life in maintenance, getting the first version out faster at the expense of all

Process Management Principles

How to deploy new processes ? Process approach, practitioners attention points, design principles for process documentation and success factors for deploying changes.Process Approach:1. end-to-end performance, with relation to customer requirements2. management of interfaces3. consideration of processes in terms of added value4. continual improvement of processes based on objective

Is your website task-focused?

Three important hints to build more effective intranet websites:1.focus on how content helps people do their jobsbetter. Focus on specific tasks that people do. Isolate howintranet content can make these tasks faster and more efficient.2.become obsessive about metrics, about proving tomanagement that content does actually deliver value.3.keep your website lean and mean.Ideas taken from Gerry

5 mistakes from Linux IT Managers

Five common mistakes that Linux IT managers make and tips to avoid the mistakes.Mistake #1: Reactive, not proactive have disaster plans in place rather than trying to implement a disaster plan on the fly (hardware failure, natural disaster, compromised systems,...) plans for the future in terms of capacity planning, upgrades, and support. Mistake #2: Failing to emphasize documentation and

Bug Priority and Severity

Differentiate Priority and Severity. The effect of a bug on the software does not automatically correlate with the priority for fixing it. A severe bug that crashes the software only once in a blue moon for 1% of the users is lower priority than a mishandled error condition resulting in the need to re-enter a portion of the input for every user every time.Therefore:Track priority and severity