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Getting Strategic About Quality: Using the Borland Quality Maturity Curve to Create a Lifecycle Quality Management Plan for Lasting Change

November 1, 2008 12:00am PDT

This paper describes how one can use Borland's Quality Maturity Curve (QMC) concept to break this unproductive cycle and achieve quality objectives in an efficient, step-by-step manner. One will...

Provided by: Borland

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Enhance Your Quality of Services and Internal Workflow Procedures With Digital Quality Feedback Services: The QualitySheet Services Offering

September 1, 2009 12:00am PDT

Companies must be able to act and plan with confidence to clients and prospects when talking about quality of their own services and products. This degree of assurance can only be accomplished...

Provided by: Qualitysheet

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Interval Quality: Relating Customer-Perceived Quality to Process Quality

May 18, 2008 12:00am PDT

The authors investigate relationships among software quality measures commonly used to assess the value of a technology, and several aspects of customer perceived quality measured by Interval...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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Open Profiling of Quality: A Mixed Method Approach to Understanding Multimodal Quality Perception

July 7, 2010 12:00am PDT

To quantify the excellence of multimedia quality, subjective evaluation experiments are conducted. In these experiments, the tradition of quantitative assessment is the most dominating, but it...

Provided by: Hindawi Publishing

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Patterns in Data Quality - A Method for Organizing Enterprise Data Quality (Web) Services in Service Oriented Architectures

February 19, 2010 12:00am PST

Different industries have varying business processes to satisfy their customers. While the data universe often differs, patterns can be developed to improve the data quality. Improved data quality...

Provided by: Pitney Bowes

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Do Minimum Quality Standards Improve Quality Of Care? A Case Study Of The Nursing Home Industry

January 19, 2011 12:00am PST

This paper estimates the impact of minimum staffing requirements on the nursing home market using a unique national panel over the 1996-2005 period. This paper reveals that, given a half-hour...

Provided by: Indiana University

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Use walkthroughs to enhance the quality of your deliverables

May 3, 2005 7:00am PDT

Large projects should have a Quality Plan that describes the steps you will take to ensure that you understand the level of quality that your client expects, and how you will go about meeting that...

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From Quality of Service to Quality of Experience

November 5, 2009 12:00am PST

This paper gives detail of the Dagstuhl Seminar 09192 on "From Quality of Service to Quality of Experience " held in Schloss Dagstuhl, Leibniz Center for Informatics from May 05 to May 08, 2009....

Provided by: Helsinki University of Technology

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Ensure IT project approval with this quality plan template

April 8, 2009 3:56am PDT

Many IT projects fall short of client expectations because the project manager didn't think ahead about how he or she was going to manage quality on the project. This quality plan template gives...

2 Latest comment by Steve Romero

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Software accreditation just part of improvement: Working group

February 21, 2005 9:45am PST

A working party composed of representatives from the ICT industry has cautioned that mandating software quality accreditation can be detrimental to small to medium companies and is pushing instead...

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Productivity, Quality And Exporting Behavior Under Minimum Quality Constraints

July 29, 2010 12:00am PDT

The authors develop a model of international trade with two sources of firm heterogeneity: "Productivity" and "Caliber". Productivity is modeled as is standard in the literature. Caliber is the...

Provided by: Munich Personal Repec Archive

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The Application Quality Dilemma: Why Testing Alone Doesn't Guarantee Quality

January 1, 2009 12:00am PST

Although many companies today are striving toward better quality, they still find it tough to size up their testing efforts. While testing tools allow executing more tests and finding more...

Provided by: Compuware

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Measuring and Improving Data Quality Part II: Measuring Data Quality

April 1, 2005 12:00am PST

Data problems are common sources of frustration, and it often seems impossible to improve the quality of the data one work with. However, well researched and proven methods for measuring and...

Provided by: Clemson University

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There's Quality And There's Project Quality!

July 7, 2008 12:00am PDT

The way project managers choose to manage quality should be appropriate to the size and scope of the project. Larger or more complex projects will need a formal quality management plan and...

Provided by: Transformed

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Lifecycle Quality Management; Infusing and Automating Quality at Every Phase

January 1, 2009 12:00am PST

When one leave quality to the end, or as someone else's responsibility, it can result in applications that fail to meet the original goals, require costly rework or miss critical release dates. To...

Provided by: Borland

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Software Quality Management for SOA: Enterprise quality managers take the helm

June 6, 2008 12:00am PDT

SOA brings challenges for every part of the IT organization, and the IT quality organization is no exception. SOA requires quality management across all types of testing--functional, performance,...

Provided by: Hewlett-Packard (HP)

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TechNet Webcast: Mining for Quality: Apply Adaptive Data Quality With SQL Server Data Mining (Level 200)

January 17, 2008 12:00am PST

Good quality data is essential to a successful business intelligence application. Most of them are probably aware that Microsoft SQL Server includes some useful data quality tools such as Fuzzy...

Provided by: Microsoft Tips

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Asus Transformer Prime Teardown: Solid tablet, but not without flaws

February 9, 2012 1:20pm PST

The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime is a solid Android tablet, but its case is tricky to open and quality control during assembly needs improvement.

1 Latest comment by Bill Detwiler - TechRepublic

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Pervasive Data Quality Improving Business Processes With High Quality Data

October 1, 2009 12:00am PDT

The problems associated with poor data quality, which include lack of trust in the data, poorly supported decision making and significant costs, have been well known for some time. However, even...

Provided by: Informatica

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Monitoring Data Quality Performance Using Data Quality Metrics With David Loshin

November 1, 2006 12:00am PST

Organizational data quality management is often introduced in reaction to acute problems traceable to how some data failure adversely affected the business. This reactive approach may be typified...

Provided by: Informatica