Software organizations that develop their software products using agile software processes, such as Extreme Programming (XP), face a number of challenges in their effort to demonstrate that their process activities conform to ISO 9001 requirements, including product measurement requirements. This paper proposes an auditing model for ISO 9001 measurements requirements that is applicable in agile...

Service Level Agreements (SLA) are needed to allow business interactions to rely onInternet services. Service Level Objectives (SLO) specify the committed performance levelof a service. Thus, SLA compliance auditing aims at verifying these commitments. SinceSLOs for various application services and end-to-end performance definitions vary largely,automated auditing of SLA com...

SNOMED is one of the leading health care terminologies being used worldwide. As such, quality assurance is an important part of its maintenance cycle. Methodologies for auditing SNOMED based on structural aspects of its organization are presented. In particular, automated techniques for partitioning SNOMED into smaller groups of concepts based primarily on relationships patterns are defined. Tw...

This article makes the case for convergence on a single set of global, high quality auditing standards. The need is driven by the fact that business and capital markets have ‘ gone global ’ , whereas relevant laws, regulations and standards remain predominantly national in nature. The article is written for stakeholders in the fi nancial reporting supply chain – preparers and issuers, including...

This paper provides an overview of the framework and tools developed at the Agile Manufacturing and Enterprise Centre (AMEC) at the University of Liverpool to assist Merseyside SME’s in embracing agility concepts. The framework is based on four main pillars; auditing of company, auditing of the operating environment, benchmarking and learning from best practice. This paper describes the overall...

The present study identified the structural requirements for auditing educational and research processes in universities. The problem posed in this research is the lack of specific and appropriate structural dimensions for educational and research auditing. The study is descriptive and used the exploratory method. Questionnaires were used to collect data. Data analysis revealed that formalizati...

prevalence of spinal cord injury (sci) in iran is considerable and developing a national registry is substantial. registry can be a foundation of efforts for patient care improvement, clinical research facilitation, preventative strategy formulation and policymaking for better support of patients. with respect to long-term and multiple consequents of the lesions that will have a negative impact...

methods this was across-sectional study, which audited 228 general practitioner offices randomly. the data from offices was collected based on researcher-made checklist, the validity of which was approved. firstly, descriptively analysis of data was done and then, the relationship between clinics characteristics and compliance with standards was assessed using analysis of variance (anova) and t...