Continuous improvement strategy- lifeblood of organizations

An Improvement Strategy for Small Latin-American Software Organizations

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Quality is our lifeblood

I have had the privilege of editing for many years and for a variety of different journals. But then along comes JHPS, the Journal of Hip Preservation Surgery, our journal, your journal, something different, something new. Issue 1 is now out there and, if the welcoming comments we received at the recent International Society for Hip Arthroscopy meeting in Rio de Janeiro are anything to go by, J...

Process Improvement for Small Organizations

S oftware process improvement (SPI) has been a hot topic within the software industry for a number of years. Its high profile has been due in part to the introduction and industry acceptance of standard improvement models , most notably the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) 1 developed by the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Large organizations , such as Motorola's Go...

Project Result Improvement in Organizations

Non-oblivious Strategy Improvement

We study strategy improvement algorithms for mean-payoff and parity games. We describe a structural property of these games, and we show that these structures can affect the behaviour of strategy improvement. We show how awareness of these structures can be used to accelerate strategy improvement algorithms. We call our algorithms non-oblivious because they remember properties of the game that ...