Abstract – At the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), software process improvement (SPI) is taught in lecture format and with a 10-week implementation project in an organization by teams of students of the graduate software engineering curriculum. The SPI course is taught using a ‘problemgoal-solution’ approach where students learn that any process improvement initiative must be based on iss...

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for better understanding of tehran ground water, samples were taken randomly from 340 out of 655 deep & semi deep wells in 1993, which dug by tehran water supply and sewage engineering company. 260 water specimens were examined chemically and physically and compared with the 1993 world health organization (who) and food and agriculture organization (fao) criteria and analyzed statistically. log...

* Group Treasurer, Colonial Limited. 1 The Tripartite Group of Banking, Securities and Insurance Regulators defined a financial conglomerate as “any group of companies under common control whose exclusive or predominant activities consist of providing significant services in at least two different financial sectors (banking, securities, insurance)” (see Tripartite Group of Banking, Securities a...

Original scientific paper It is necessary for maintenance to have qualified and trained staff, capable of using modern equipment for maintenance, defect inspection and maintenance work, able of applying modern requirements of organization and management. Therefore, it is necessary to redesign the maintenance processes in a more extensive way than the classical, which is based on the terotechnol...

M. V. Achim, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, S.N. Borlea, West Vasile Goldis University, Arad, Romania In this paper, we developed a model of a global diagnosis, applicable to any company operating in the metal industry. Unlike other models used for this purpose (such as statistical models or models based only on Ā nancial variables) the proposed model has the advantage of being ...

to survive in today’s competitive environment, companies need continues improvement to achieve goals such as increasing the accuracy of targeting, improving product or service. however, there is no improvement guaranty without performance evaluation. an organization must assess current performance before embarking on any improvement. if it does not, it will have no baseline from which to determ...