Recommended Practices to Ensure Technical Conference Content Quality

Recommended Requirements Gathering Practices

A " requirement " is a necessary attribute in a system, a statement that identifies a capability, characteristic, or quality factor of a system in order for it to have value and utility to a user [1]. According to Steve McConnell in Software Project Survival Guide, " The most difficult part of requirements gathering is not documenting what the users 'want'; it is the effort of helping users fig...

Contraceptive counseling: best practices to ensure quality communication and enable effective contraceptive use.

Improving the quality of contraceptive counseling is one strategy to prevent unintended pregnancy. We identify aspects of relational and task-oriented communication in family planning care that can assist providers in meeting their patients' needs. Approaches to optimizing women's experiences of contraceptive counseling include working to develop a close, trusting relationship with patients and...

Recommended Practices for Spreadsheet Testing

This paper presents the author’s recommended practices for spreadsheet testing. Documented spreadsheet error rates are unacceptable in corporations today. Although improvements are needed throughout the systems development life cycle, credible improvement programs must include comprehensive testing. Several forms of testing are possible, but logic inspection is recommended for module testing. L...

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Big Data Quality: From Content to Context

Over the last 20 years, and particularly with the advent of Big Data and analytics, the research area around Data and Information Quality (DIQ) is still a fast growing research area. There are many views and streams in DIQ research, generally aiming at improving the effectiveness of decision making in organizations. Although there are a lot of researches aimed at clarifying the role of BIG data...