Engineering Management Master's Theses

Multi-resolution approach to identification of recurring patterns in process signal

Tarun M. Kothia — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:16:49 PST

Process control is important for enhancing the quality of manufactured products. Manufacturing processes are generally monitored by observing uniformly sampled process signals collected from application specific sensors and comparing them against known standard patterns. Effective process monitoring and control requires identification of different types of variation, including recurring patterns, in process variables. From the process control view point, any repeating patterns in the process measurements will warrant an investigation into potentially assignable causes. In order to devise an effective process control scheme, a novel universally applicable method for the identification of the repeated occurrence of patterns in process measurements is...

Examining agile management methods and non-agile management methods in global software development projects

Rajko Ilincic — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:16:49 PST

Global software development (GSD) undertakings, whether set up as one time projects or continuous operational structures, are growing in popularity and becoming more common in organizations. With globally distributed software teams implementing projects there are risks and challenges that do not affect the outcome of co-located team software development projects. The present study is concerned with understanding more about the project management characteristics associated with global software development project success. Specifically, the way Agile and Non-Agile management methods coupled with project management characteristics related to project success were investigated. The data collection instrument for this study was a web based...