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10 Practical Tips in Applying CMMI 1.2 L2
Here are my tips on practical implementation of CMMI as I experienced in my first appraisal: 1) In CMMI 1.2 PP (Project Planning), you have to create Project Plan, however the GP (Generic Practice) 2.2 require you to “Plan the Process”. It sounds like you have to create a plan to create the project plan.…
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CMMI 1.2 Level 2+3 Practices Summary (PDF)
I want to create practice summery for CMMI 1.2 especially for L2 and L3. After some googling, I found it athttp://www.processgroup.com/condensed-cmmi1p2-v1.pdf See final CMMI 1.2: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/publications/documents/06.reports/06tr008.html From ahm507.blogspot.com
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My Blog: Favoring to be User Friendly Than to be Search Engine Friendly
In my post 10 Tips to Improve Your Blog and Website, I suggested to have a summery of your post and the rest to appear after user click on it. This will be very useful in search ranking by search engines such as Google, but will annoy many users. Especially while I am using Google…
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JTrac, a flexible Issue Tracking System
I found a good issue tracking software, what I like in this tool is its ability to create custom workflows, custom fields and assign permissions to it. You can see complete history, get email notifications, and attach files to issues. You have also a good search and a dashboard with summery of all projects. I…
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JSPWiki Wiki Engine
JSPWiki is an open source wiki engine that enables a simple content website which any user can add or edit pages. The system supports authentication and authorization optionaly. By default it uses files system to save its data, so the setup and configuration of it is extremely easy. Also it has templates and many other…
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What’s with ‘expected practices’ and can’t I use an alternative?
Dear Jeff, I attended the Introduction to CMMI 1.2 course, I learned that the goals only are mandatory and practices are expected. Last week I attended a formal appraisal, we mapped each practice to a direct evidence and indirect evidence, so in reality the practices are taken as mandatory. In order to skip some practices…
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Print to PDF Printer
PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application. Download from:http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator Tip: You can use PDFCreator to save webpage into pdf files, if the webpage is very wide, you can print as landscape, or select A3 paper size, or even select custom page size with any size, see the side…
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16 Critical Software Practices
The Software Program Managers Network (SPMN) has developed this package of materials to assist program managers and others involved in software development in implementing 16 identified critical software practices that, when correctly put in place, will improve your bottom line measures–time to fielding, quality, cost, predictability, and customer satisfaction. The items are Risk, Cost, Metrics,…
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My First CMMI Appraisal
Last week I spent 8 days in a small company appraisal, one day as a readiness check, then two days as a pre-appraisal training, and 5 days in formal CMMI 1.2 appraisal as an ATM (Appraisal Team Member). In the readiness check, we reviewed the PIIDs document and other documents. PIIDs is an excel sheet…
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10 Tips to Improve Your Blog and Website
Here are 10 tips to improve your blog, I already did it on my blog in the last few weeks and now sharing it. Although these tips are used in my Blogger account that is based on the new Layout design, many of them are applicable to any other blog or website. Here are the…
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News Website Basic Features
Modern news websites must have basic features to let users’ life easier, here is a list of those features: 1) Search Page: Search page that uses Search Engine that return fast search hits, and rank the search results. Google right now offer search through a specific website using the keyword site:sitename.com, where sitename.com is the…
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Open Source Presentation
I have created a presentation about open source software, it was a 2.5 hours presentation. You can reuse it from http://www.amadsoft.com/ahm507/Open Source Software.odp The presentation is in Open Document format, you can open it with Open Office, download and use Open Office from http://www.openoffice.org/. Open Document Format is a standard open format for any office…
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TrueDownload, Truly a Nice Tool
What is download manager?: A download manager is a computer program designed to download files from the Internet, unlike a web browser, which is mainly intended to browse webpages on the World Wide Web (with file downloading being of secondary importance). There are several things that some web browsers are not very good at. That’s…
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What is Website Feed?
When website publish updates frequently such as news sites or blogs, how could visitors track new updates on that website?, they have to periodically visit the website to see if there exist any updates, this is not a systematic approach and not also convenient. In our busy world, many times you will forget and miss…
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Access Your POP3 Email Accounts
If you are abroad and want to read you POP3 email, you can visit http://mail2web.com/, write username and password and instantly you are able to access your email. mail2web.com is simple, fast, free, and requires no registration. From ahm507.blogspot.com
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Samba Made Easy
Windows servers are now widespread, although Linux is having a strong ground everyday, you always have to deal with networks that have Windows clients and servers, Samba is the ideal solution on Linux to let it coexist with Windows without any trouble. What I want to mention is the availability of quality books from samba.org…
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Google Translate in More Languages!
Google has a translate service, when you select a URL to translate, a new page from Google will show up and display the original page translated. The new page have all URLs transformed so that, when you click it, it will show a translated version from the original page. This is just like what Sakhr…
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Dictionaries for the Non-English Speakers
In our day to day tasks we make a lot of Internet research, Google helped us to get our target in the first page of search hits, and many times in the first hit. For researchers with English language as a second language, a dictionary is essential to make comprehension easier. Online Users:For the online…
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Access All Your Chat Accounts From One Website
There is a nice website that let you access all your chat accounts even if they are blocked by your local network firewall. Have a look at it at http://www.meebo.com/ From ahm507.blogspot.com