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A Review of Conceptual And Measurement Innovations In National And Regional Human Development Reports, 1998-2009

July 1, 2010 12:00am PDT

This paper presents the results from an analysis of sub-national, national and regional human development reports nominated for the Human Development Awards between 1998 and 2009 to highlight...

Provided by: United Nations Development Programme

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Measuring The Development Of Shared Mental Models In Product Design Teams

July 20, 2006 12:00am PDT

In this paper, the concept of shared mental models is proposed to investigate cognitive processes that influence team performance of design teams. Based on this proposal a measurement technique...

Provided by: Delft University of Technology

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Succession: Measuring Transfer of Code and Developer Productivity

September 22, 2008 12:00am PDT

Code ownership transfer or succession is a crucial ingredient in open source code reuse and in offshoring projects. Measuring succession can help understand factors that affect the success of such...

Provided by: Avaya

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Optimization of an Indicator System for Measuring E-commerce Development: A Further Study at Firm Level

August 1, 2010 12:00am PDT

Although the topic of e-commerce measurement belongs to one of research priorities in e-commerce, the authors lack a measurement framework for e-commerce benchmarking at firm level, especially...

Provided by: Academy Publisher

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Authentic Leadership: Development And Validation Of A Theory-Based Measure

May 29, 2010 12:00am PDT

This paper develops and tests a theory-based measure of authentic leadership using five separate samples obtained from China, Kenya, and the United States. Confirmatory factor analyses supported a...

Provided by: University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Articles

Production metrics: What's being measured?

November 7, 2001 8:00am PST

It's as important to measure how well you are maintaining programs as it is to measure the development process. But the same metrics probably won't work for both. See what questions you should be...

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Measuring The Returns To Rural Entrepreneurship Development

October 26, 2006 12:00am PDT

Entrepreneurship has increasingly been held out as an alternative to traditional economic development strategies and policies. Advocates for entrepreneurship-based policies suggest that...

Provided by: Rural Policy Research Institute

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Avoiding Mistakes and Measuring Success in Collaborative Development

January 14, 2010 12:00am PST

The success of open source initiatives and the growing popularity of social media tools such as blogs and wikis have led many enterprises to adopt the open source model of collaboration for...

Provided by: CollabNet

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Developing Key Performance Indicators: Designing Measurement For Faculty Concerns

August 23, 2006 12:00am PDT

An explicit process for tracking measures is required: evaluation of qualitative Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) will be via self-reflection followed by external validation and benchmarking...

Provided by: Monash University

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Far-Field Reconstruction from Transient Near-Field Measurement Using Cylindrical Modal Development

October 31, 2009 12:00am PDT

The aim of this paper is to get far field radiation patterns for any radiating source from transient acquisition, in a large frequency range. An outdoor transient Ultra-Wideband near-field...

Provided by: Hindawi Publishing

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Measuring The Performance And Achievement Of Social Objectives Of Development Finance Institutions

February 1, 2008 12:00am PST

This paper develops and tests a proposed methodology that puts forward a new integrated method for evaluating the performance of development finance institutions. This methodology applies...

Provided by: The World Bank

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Development of an H-TDMA for Long-Term Unattended Measurement of the Hygroscopic Properties of Atmospheric Aerosol Particles

June 30, 2009 12:00am PDT

A new hygroscopic tandem differential mobility analyzer (H-TDMA) has been constructed at Lund University within the frameworks of the EU FP6 Infrastructure Project EUSAAR (www.eusaar.org). The aim...

Provided by: European Geosciences Union

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Measuring Regional Market Integration In Developing Asia: A Dynamic Factor Error Correction Model (DF-ECM) Approach

May 1, 2007 12:00am PDT

This paper examines empirically the dynamic process of regional market integration in twelve Asian economies using a new modeling approach combining DF with ECM. This approach enables to obtain...

Provided by: Asian Development Bank

Q&A

Measuring Performance

May 20, 2008 10:23am PDT

Measuring Performance The firm I am currently working for is requiring a quantitative means to measure a developers performance. What are some good ways to measure performance? Would this help...

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Blog Posts

How Lean Six Sigma affirms agile programming practices

February 8, 2010 9:17am PST

Joe Goss examines how the Define Measure Analyze Improve Control and agile software development methodologies address the eight areas of waste defined by Lean Six Sigma.

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Blog Posts

ROI equation for development projects: What not to forget

July 18, 2008 1:24pm PDT

When measuring your development project's ROI, it's important to go beyond the basic calculation. Here are a few important costs and returns that you may have overlooked.

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Discussion Threads

Measureable PM goals

January 19, 2006 8:00pm PST

Measureable PM goals I am looking for assistance with developing measurable performance goals for a project manager. I manager small projects in a financial institution. Launching new programs,...

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Efficient Development Portfolio Design For Sub Saharan Africa

August 1, 2010 12:00am PDT

The Stiglitz report published in September 2009 has brought back to the attention of policy makers and researchers that measuring a country's development solely on the basis of GDP or GDP per...

Provided by: United Nations University

Software

zRuler - The Smart Zoom Camera Ruler 1.01 (Mobile)

June 18, 2011 12:00am PDT

The zRuler or Smart Zoom Camera Ruler has been developed to enable iPhone users to measure directly distances between 15 cm (~ 5.9 in ) and 100 cm (39.4 in) without using tricks or other...

Provided by: App Propulsion Laboratory

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Comparing Passive Network Monitoring of Grid Application Traffic with Active Probes

January 1, 2010 12:00am PST

Distributed applications require timely network measurements so that they can adapt to changing network conditions and make efficient use of grid resources. One of the key issues in obtaining...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers