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ESRB ESATA eSATA (external SATA) a hardware implementation of the ATA disk drive protocol for connecting external disk drives to computers. It is similar to SATA but uses different connectors. See SATA. escalate to transfer a customer’s help request from the person who origi- nally handled it to someone more highly trained, and/or to mark [...]

It is impractical for the manufacturers to make complete foundation drawings, as they are not familiar with the lay-out of pipes and the relative position of other apparatus in the station. All that the manufacturers’ drawing is intended to do is to show the customer where it will be necessary for him to locate his [...]

Causes of Failure in Business Normally, following are the common causes of failure of any business: • Lack of market knowledge • Start of any business without having proper experience in the field • Lack of control over procedures • Lack of understanding customer’s demand • Poorly designed Production Processes • Cost • Wastage • Complaint handling • Quality • Insufficient capital • Bad Luck • Natural Disaster Reasons for Success in Business (controllable factors) • Response of Market • Competence – The ability to work • Knowledge of Market • Knowledge of Product • Knowledge of Systems Reasons for Success in Business (uncontrollable factors) • Luck and Act of God • Law of Government • State Laws • Climate change • Using disaster (if any) as an opportunity) Joint Venture Two or more people or organizations join hands and decide to do a combine business.  In a joint venture, There is equal sharing or capital resources by each firm. Instead of expanding the business at broader level or to start a new business with very high cost, joint venture shares the financial burden in order to gain new opportunities at diversified level. Advantages of Joint Venture • Provide opportunities to acquire new expertise • [...]

CM standards CM should always be based on a set of standards which are applied within an organisation. Standards should define how items are identified, how changes are controlled and how new versions are managed. Standards may be based on external CM standards (e.g. IEEE standard for CM ANSI/IEEE Std. No. 828-1983, 1042-1987, 1028-1988). Existing [...]

You may recall that software configuration management (SCM) is one of the five KPA required for an organization to be at CMM level 2. That means, according to SEI, effective project management is not possible without having a proper SCM function in place. The basic idea behind SCM is to manage and control change. As [...]

Let us now apply the principles studied above to develop a plan for a concept development project.  In this case the potential for new technology or new business idea is explored. Since it is a concept development project, the applicability is not certain but it appears to be useful and hence needs to be explored. [...]

In 1978, McCall identified factors that could be used to develop metrics for the software quality. These factors try to assess the inner quality of software from factors that can be observed from outside. The basic idea is that the quality of the software can be inferred if we measure certain attributes once the product [...]

A file type referenced is An internal logical file read or maintained by a transactional function or An external interface file read by a transactional function DET Definition A data element type is a unique user recognizable, non-repeated field. EI Complexity and Contribution Rules This section defines FTR and DET rules used to determine the [...]

Grouping of data into logical files is the result of combined effect of two grouping methods: How data is accessed as a group by elementary processes? (process driven) The relationship between the entities and their interdependency based on business rules. (data driven) The following guideline can be used for this purpose: Process Driven Approach Data [...]

The number of ILFs, EIFs, and their relative functional complexity determine the contribution of the data functions to the unadjusted function point count. Assign each identified ILF and EIF a functional complexity based on the number of data element types (DETs) and record element types (RETs) associated with the ILF or EIF. This section defines [...]