Does anybody care about the trainer?

Accuracy in clinical chemistry--does anybody care?

The role of clinical chemistry in the diagnostic process has been enhanced by the evolution of better instrumentation and analytical techniques. The quality of some laboratory tests, however, has not kept pace with these advances. I present three examples--serum iron, serum lipase, and nonisotopic immunoassays--assays where some currently used methodologies are highly flawed. Causes for the les...

Does anybody read "evidence-based" articles?

BACKGROUND The electronic version of the British Medical Journal (eBMJ) has a unique feature in that it provides an electronic record of the number of times an article has been viewed ("hits") in the week after its publication. We sought to compare the relative popularity of primary research and "evidence-based" papers against that of narrative reviews and editorials. We surveyed four broad gro...

Does Anybody Out There Understand the Requirements Process ?

Best Practices in Software Engineering: Does Anybody in Industry or Academia Care?

In 1991, Motorola became one of the first companies to establish a software center in Bangalore, India.. The plan, at the time, was to investigate whether or not it was possible to build an organization from the ground up to develop software using the processes and best practices being promoted by the Software Engineering Institute.. Within 2 years, that goal was realized when the Motorola Indi...

Improving Business Processes: Does Anybody have an Idea?

As part of process redesign initiatives, substantial time is spent on the systematic description and analysis of the as-is process. By contrast, to-be scenarios are often generated in a less rigorous way. Only one or a few workshops are organized for this purpose, which rely on the use of techniques that are susceptible to bias and incompleteness, e.g. brainstorming. In this paper, we evaluate ...