System Metaphor is one of the key practices of Extreme Programming (XP). Unfortunately, the System Metaphor practice is poorly understood, and is the practice XP teams most commonly choose to ignore. In this paper, we provide a small collection of patterns that teams can use to develop metaphors for their systems, and for evaluating system metaphors. We hope these patterns will encourage Extrem...

The objective of the study was to establish effect strategic management practices and sustainable competitive advantage more specifically seeks examine planning practices, procurement corporate governance, cost on performance. study’s population were 90 senior managers Inyange. Descriptive research design, correlation analysis multiple regression used assess data using SPSS version 24. Findings...

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BACKGROUND Chip pan fires are responsible for 25% of fire related injury in the UK, despite government strategies to encourage safer frying. To establish the feasibility of promoting oven ready chips (fries), the residents in a materially deprived ward of London were surveyed. Sample frame: 1073 of 2145 households participating in a randomised controlled trial. RESULTS Approximately half of t...

I provide several lessons learned from running a number of conference program committees over the past decade, as well as some additional thoughts on conference organization and the reviewing process. Topics include how to deal with poor or absent reviewers, inbreeding among PC members, starting a new conference, and several other issues.

Since the benchmarking movement started to grow significantly, many organisations have become engrossed in the 'mechanics' of doing the benchmarking by pursuing their quest for acquiring information on best practices and identifying gaps in their competitive performance. Overall, the notion is that benchmarking is considered successful once projects are completed, and an action plan is put into...

By investigating how educational practitioners participate in activities around open educational practices (OEP), this paper aims at contributing to an understanding of open practices and how these practitioners learn to use OEP. Our research is guided by the following hypothesis: Different social configurations support a variety of social learning activities. The social configuration of OEPs i...