Free software development resource. (IT News).The National Computing Centre The National Computing Centre (NCC) is a membership and research company in the UK founded on 10 June 1966 by the UK Government in order to encourage the growth of computer usage in the UK and ensure that the necessary education and training was made available. have launched an enhanced version of Towards Software Excellence (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). ), a free internet resource designed to help small to medium sized (SME (1) (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise) See SMB. (2) (Subject Matter Expert) An individual who is well-versed in the policies and procedures of a particular department or division. ) software companies maintain and improve quality and business procedures. TSE is an interactive on-line self assessment tool and route map to best practice advice. TSE can be found at http://www.software-excellence.co.uk Since its launch last year, TSE has helped many hundreds of software companies and IT departments within larger organisations by enabling them to compare their own procedures and performance against best practice advice. Backed by DTI Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) A refinement of magnetic resonance imaging that allows the doctor to measure the flow of water and track the pathways of white matter in the brain. , TSE has been designed and delivered by the National Computing Centre. TSE is also unique, no other online resource offers as much depth of advice. This is the first major revision to TSE since its launch last year, enhancements include: * The Route Map of best practice information and advice has been comprehensively updated across all aspects of the software development life cycle, to include latest best practice information and advice. * The site also benefits from improved navigation, making it easier for users to health-check their own processes and get expert advice where, necessary. * TSE now provides relevant industry benchmarks enabling users to easily compare their own performance with sector norms. A report writer is included, enabling users to print out status reports and advice so they can keep track of their progress off-line See offline. (jargon) off-line - (Or "offline") 1. Not directly connected to the computer (e.g., an off-line tape drive), or with connection suspended ("take the printer off-line"). Contrast background, on-line. 2. Not now or not here. as well as on-line. The benefits claimed for using Towards Software Excellence are: Improved competitive edge through greater process efficiency, shortened short·en v. short·ened, short·en·ing, short·ens v.tr. 1. To make short or shorter. 2. development times. and faster market delivery. In particular, the advice provided by TSE will help organisations to: * Sell more and better quality products and services to wider markets. * Reduce re-work and therefore costs * Cut software related failures experienced by customers. * Manage customers better. * Provide better control of change management and growth. TSE and its advice can help in project planning project planning - project management and continual learning by staff. The health-check and benchmark A performance test of hardware and/or software. There are various programs that very accurately test the raw power of a single machine, the interaction in a single client/server system (one server/multiple clients) and the transactions per second in a transaction processing system. can be used to review a project or a person's performance. Access to TSE is currently free. Potential users should log on to www.software-excellence.co.uk to find full details on registration and use of the tool. |
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