This paper examines the efficiency and effectiveness of a prescriptive systems development methodology in practice. The UK Government’s mandatory Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method (SSADM) was examined to determine its value to software projects. The evidence was collected from interviews with 17 project managers, discussions with participants on 3 large SSADM projects and from obser...

The software industry blames universities for their graduates lacking necessary skills, meaning that just the possession of knowledge does not necessarily imply the competent performance required by the profession. Professional maturity in software engineering is one of software industry’s major needs and in-office training can not address this need as efficiently as university education can. T...

This special issue of ALTEX is publicising what the 3R Research Foundation has achieved in the past and what projects are currently underway. This special issue is intended to improve awareness of the projects funded by the Foundation and to provide a training tool. The first section includes updated descriptions of 20 projects from the past ten years. These projects, involving basic research, ...

Although apprenticeships in Germany are normally organised through the Dual System, combining learning at work with more formal vocational education through the vocational schools, in construction there is a tripartite system, with apprentices additionally attending training in industry funded training centres. BauABC, a partner in the Learning Layers project, in one of the largest industrial t...

Older adults should be screened for fall risk annually. Community providers (people without formal medical training who work with older adults in senior centers or aging services) may be a viable group to expand the reach of screenings. Our community-academic partnership developed a program to increase and assess fall risk screenings by community providers. Community sites hosted training works...

This paper presents the development of a training tool that enhances and empowers trainees’ ability in developing business projects by preparing high-quality business plans. An ontology-based knowledge network was developed for the semantic representation of the business plans preparation procedure. The model can combine existing multimedia material with ontology constructs in order to build us...

In [BBH04] we presented an approach for generating diagnostic training cases from dismissal reports in order to reduce both author’s effort and time-to-class for new training cases. In the past year we finished the tool CaseImporter and several authors used it to implement their own training systems, some of them being part of lectures. In this paper, we analyze both approach and tool with resp...

Background: One of the most important issues in empowering and developing managers is paying attention to spiritual intelligence and its effect on organizational commitment and productivity of projects in the organization. So the purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of spiritual quotient (SQ) training on organizational commitment and productivity in project managers. Meth...