Starting a Sober Dorm: Year One Challenges, Successes and Lessons Learned

Challenges and lessons learned

Microfinance Institutions have the potential to alleviate poverty across the world. However, they face many challenges before they can grow to meet set objectives. The use of information technology holds promise to enable such growth. There are some key challenges that must be addressed by microfinance institutions before the full potential of IT can be realized. This paper articulates five key...

Successes, Challenges and Lessons Learned: Community-engaged research with South Carolina's Gullah population.

During the past two decades, researchers have provided evidence to support the notion that the social environment in which people live, as well as their lifestyles and behaviours, can influence the incidence of illness within a population (IOM 1988). They have also demonstrated that a population can achieve longterm health improvements when people become involved in improving the health of thei...

Distributed Systems: Lessons Learned and Challenges Remaining

The design of most distributed systems has settled down into a reasonably coherent architectural framework, with only moderate perturbations occurring from system to system, and from generation to generation. I'll describe the framework, some lessons learned as this framework has progressed over the last 20 years, and some important research and engineering challenges ahead. I'll extrapolate to...

Teaching the PSP: Challenges and Lessons Learned

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 2 / $ 1 7 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 2 I E E E to define, measure, and analyze your own processes.”1 The PSP adapts a continuous improvement model to the specific needs of an individual software developer who wants to be more productive and produce higher quality software. In particular, the PSP targets the process used to individually design and develop software and incorporates ways to...

STEREO Fault Protection Challenges and Lessons Learned