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A best practice is a method or technique that has been generally accepted as superior to alternatives because it tends to produce superior results. Best practices are used to achieve quality as an alternative to mandatory standards. Best practices can be based on self-assessment or benchmarking. [1] Best practice is a feature of accredited ...
Computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) is the study of how people utilize technology collaboratively, often towards a shared goal. CSCW addresses how computer systems can support collaborative activity and coordination. [1] More specifically, the field of CSCW seeks to analyze and draw connections between currently understood human ...
A best current practice, abbreviated as BCP, [1] is a de facto level of performance in engineering and information technology. It is more flexible than a standard, since techniques and tools are continually evolving. The Internet Engineering Task Force publishes Best Current Practice documents in a numbered document series.
Adaptive management, also known as adaptive resource management or adaptive environmental assessment and management, is a structured, iterative process of robust decision making in the face of uncertainty, with an aim to reducing uncertainty over time via system monitoring. In this way, decision making simultaneously meets one or more resource ...
POSDCORB is an acronym widely used in the field of management and public administration that reflects the classic view of organizational theory. [1] It appeared most prominently in a 1937 paper by Luther Gulick (in a set edited by himself and Lyndall Urwick). However, he first presented the concept in 1935. [2]
Coding best practices or programming best practices are a set of informal, sometimes personal, rules (best practices) that many software developers, in computer programming follow to improve software quality. [1] Many computer programs require being robust and reliable for long periods of time, [2] so any rules need to facilitate both initial ...
Extreme programming (XP) is a software development methodology intended to improve software quality and responsiveness to changing customer requirements. As a type of agile software development, [1] [2] [3] it advocates frequent releases in short development cycles, intended to improve productivity and introduce checkpoints at which new customer requirements can be adopted.
Good Manufacturing Practices emerged in response to serious incidents of harm caused by contaminated, adulterated, or improperly manufactured products. Major incidents include: Elixir Sulfanilamide Incident, Thalidomide Incident, Cutter Incident, and Dalkon Shield Incident. These incidents resulted in hundreds of deaths, infections, and birth ...