Blueprint For Project Research Articles

In memory of Professor Pierluigi Cecchi.

In memory of Professor Pierluigi Cecchi.

Development and Validation of a Project Package for Junior Secondary School Basic Science

This was a Research and Developmental study designed to develop and validate projects for Junior Secondary School Basic Science instruction and evaluation. The projects were developed using the project blueprint and sent for validation by experts in science education and measurement and evaluation; using a project validation scale. They were to rate the project task and skills in terms of their appropriateness and suitability. The projects were later administered on 1584 students. The result showed that the project measures of skills and task were significantly related. The project sub-scale of cognitive, affective and psychomotor was also significantly correlated. The inter-rater reliability index varied from 0.75 to 0.92. Hence, the projects were recommended for instructing and evaluating Junior Secondary School Basic Science.

Project Blueprint: Greater Cincinnati Water Works Creates a New Blueprint for Success!

Project Blueprint: Greater Cincinnati Water Works Creates a New Blueprint for Success!Strategic business planning has been an important tool to help guide Greater Cincinnati Water Works (GCWW) closer to its vision of being a utility that will serve as a standard for excellence in the water utility industry. Since 1995, Greater Cincinnati Water Works has used strategic business planning to take a long-term view of the utility's goals and operations and to determine strategies and...Author(s)Cathy BaileySourceProceedings of the Water Environment FederationDocument typeConference PaperPublisherWater Environment FederationPrint publication date Jan, 2012ISSN1938-6478DOI10.2175/193864712811694929Volume / Issue2012 / 1Content sourceUtility Management ConferenceCopyright2012Word count336

A Basis for Analyzing Software Architecture Analysis Methods

A software architecture is a key asset for any organization that builds complex software-intensive systems. Because of an architecture's central role as a project blueprint, organizations should analyze the architecture before committing resources to it. An analysis helps to ensure that sound architectural decisions are made. Over the past decade a large number of architecture analysis methods have been created, and at least two surveys of these methods have been published. This paper examines the criteria for analyzing architecture analysis methods, and suggests a new set of criteria that focus on the essence of what it means to be an architecture analysis method. These criteria could be used to compare methods, to help understand the suitability of a method, or to improve a method. We then examine two methods--the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method and Architecture-level Modifiability Analysis--in light of these criteria, and provide some insight into how these methods can be improved.