8 BEST PRACTICES TO FOLLOW IN AGILE METHODOLOGY From the late 1990’s, the software development sector experienced an upsurge in demand, as the world’s markets evolved to a more tech-oriented scope to their businesses. With a greater requirement for software development by companies targeting to increase delivery, value, and quality of output, a set of principles were constructed specifically for this purpose. These principles are collectively known as agile methodology, and they focus primarily…
Aqua America’s Software Methodology Justina Khuu The majority of Aqua America’s software is developed using the waterfall method, whether it is in-house or through contractors. Oftentimes there is a meeting set for requirements gathering between the developers and the managers or directors of the department that is to benefit from the software development, and then minimal contact between the two groups until the product is delivered. While this results in the least amount of upfront cost by…
Software Methodologies Agile Methodologies Agile Software Development (ASD) has in the recent years been an emerging development approach in the South African software development industry. The agile approach is continuously improving with time and companies are now identifying that, there are still difficulties in adopting the agile approach and how software is developed in an agile environment (Greer & Hamon 2011). Aleid (2015) explains agile as a set unconventional development methodologies,…
Gattaca, is it really down to a science? “Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be. - John Phillips” This relates to the society in the movie “Gattaca” due to the fact that the society is only for the “people” that are “valid” meaning that only people that have been genetically modified are accepted in the advanced work field of the future. Due to these facts that only “valid” people are accepted in the world,…
drought, can again lead to aggression and higher suicide attempts in farmers (Guiney). This is just one example of how a specific group of people or population’s mental health can negatively affected because of climate change and more importantly extreme weather events. These two ideas have direct and indirect impacts that could be lessened and dealt with over time, if policy making bodies gain awareness about…
Irene Sans Meteorologist Irene Sans was always focused in mathematics and science from a very early age. She attended Florida State University, where she graduated with a bachelor in Meteorology, minor in mathematics and concentration in Hispanic Marketing Communications. While in FSU, she was the first bilingual deputy State Meteorologist on board at the Division of Florida Emergency Management – Emergency Operations Center where she would brief state officials about the weather conditions…
Keep the Iditarod Did you now that the dogs are so intelligent that they can pull a sled by their self without anyone telling them where to go? It is true!! The dog are breed for it and they are so smart that they know how to lead a sled better than a person. Some people think that it is bad for the dogs. But the dogs are breed for these conditions and they are in fit for it too. The dogs might look like they are too skinny and will freeze but that is not true the dogs have so much fur…
Before there was issue how companies are promoting poverty but after the mandatory CSR Act in India thinking towards companies have changes and also Companies are becoming role model in reduction of poverty. Big and small Companies including NGO taking initiative to work towards poverty (Prieto‐Carrón, Lund‐Thomsen, Chan, Muro, & Bhushan, 2006). The study on based of the comparative perspective globalization and the…
India, a country with a population of more than 1 billion people, is home to many small, rural communities that have never encouraged education among their citizens (CIA, 2016). In one of these communities, a family of eight struggles to get by with the little money the family makes as tenant farmers. Overtime, situations such as these have been bettered thanks to the Millennium Development Goals, but there is room for further achievement. Since the implementation of the Millennium Development…
Earth is home to 7.4 billion people -- of those 7.4 billion people more than 3 billion people live on less than $2.50 a day (UNDP). More than 1.3 billion people live on $1.25 a day; or in other words, extreme poverty (UNDP). Poverty is a worldwide hurdle that nobody has yet to knockdown. Poverty, Inc. is a film that shows the untold impacts of foreign aid; moreover, how America, NGO’s (non-governmental organization) and the United Nations are hindering/crippling those they provide aid for; such…