Our Story of Process Improvement

The cystic fibrosis improvement story: we count our successes in lives.

To cite: James BC. BMJ Qual Saf 2014;23:268–271. It is clear that US health care delivery provides unprecedented health benefits to those who seek its services. It is equally clear that care delivery, and the benefits that it achieves, could be much better. Advances in biomedical research and the application of health care delivery science described in the accompanying supplement have resulted ...

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Process capability improvement of an engine connecting rod machining process

Statistical process control is an excellent quality assurance tool to improve the quality of manufacture and ultimately scores on end-customer satisfaction. SPC uses process monitoring charts to record the key quality characteristics (KQCs) of the component in manufacture. This paper elaborates on one such KQC of the manufacturing of a connecting rod of an internal combustion engine. Here th...

Story Card Maturity Model (SMM): A Process Improvement Framework for Agile Requirements Engineering Practices

This paper describes an ongoing process to define a suitable process improvement model for story cards based requirement engineering process and practices at agile software development environments. Key features of the SMM (Story card Maturity Model) process are: solves the problems related to the story cards like requirements conflicts, missing requirements, ambiguous requirements, define stan...

Scaffolding the Story Creation Process

Comic books provide an appropriate and structured context for education and personal or peer reflection. In this paper we discuss the benefits of comic books and technology in a pedagogical context, including the mechanism of scaffolding and how this interaction impacts upon the child's environment. Our studies into the educational benefits of comic books have lead to the development of an inte...