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Fetească neagră (IPA: [fe.’teas.kă ‘nea.gră] – free translation Black Maiden) The Black Maiden is an old pre-phylloxeric variety of Moldovan grape, cultivated mainly in several areas in the Romanian regions of Moldavia and Muntenia and also in the Republic of Moldova. These grapes produce dry, semi-dry or sweet wines, with an alcohol content of 12-12.5%, […]

What to do with the best practices?

Have you ever tried to google for “software best practices”? I’ve just did before writing this short post and I’ve got “Results 1 – 10 of about 88,800,000 for software best practices”. Incredible, isn’t it? We are bombarded with best practices, organized in methodologies, process models, bodies of knowledge, etc. Should we want to get […]

Announcement

  PROGRAMOPERATIONAL SECTORIAL “CRESTEREA COMPETITIVITATIIECONOMICE” “INVESTITII PENTRU VIITORULDUMNEAVOASTRA” Titlu proiect: “Participarea BIS la SIBOS 09Hong-Kong”, cofinantata din Fondul European de Dezvoltare Regionalaprin Programul Operational Sectorial “Cresterea CompetitivitatiiEconomice”. (more…) Rezultate: “In cadrul targului SIBOS, companiaromaneasca SC BIS SRL a avut un stand propriu in care au fostpromovate serviciile oferite de societatea romaneasca bancilorasiatice care intentioneaza sa […]

Sibos 2009

Business Information Systems (BIS) proposes youto become SEPAReady working with our skilled teamand certified software solution. Business Information Systems provides low-cost,practice proven solutions for payments systems. They are based onqPayIntegrator suite ( recertified SWIFTReady ApplicationSEPA 2009 ) and on the value-added services performed byour SWIFT-certified technical and business experts. BIS‘ goal is to assist banks […]

We may be small but we are complex

“We may be small but we are complex” Who said that? Someone from a small setting in USA -we wish we knew who. It’s what we also think about our company, BIS. When we first started the SPI (Software Process Improvement) all we knew about CMMI were the acronym and that it will be difficult. […]

Feedback of the romanian market on SEPA instruments adoption

Since SEPA Project is a hot topic of the moment and BIS has been continuously preoccupied with its evolution, why don’t we first approach this subject? In June 2009, BIS initiated and hosted in its conference room a series of 3 workshops on SEPA-related matters, gathering around 30 participants from the banking sector and 15 […]

An Interesting Speech on Software Acquisitions

I’ve just read the speech of Paul D. Nielsen, Director and CEO of the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute before U.S. House of Representatives. Very interesting for everyone in the software industry, including the 10 reasons for software acquisitions failures: 1. Technology key to program success is new to the organization 2. Software issues are […]

People CMM and Small Organizations

I fully agree with this quote. People CMM has the best practices needed by an organization to attract, develop, motivate, organize, and retain the workforce. If you are a manager in charge of a whole organization or a team or a HRM Department, People CMM is the model to follow. People CMM version 2 has […]

Good Advice, Bad Advice

When you start a process improvement project based on CMMI practices, you need a lot of advice. A good consultant is a must. The great www is also full of ideas, some good, some not so good. 🙂 Some advice I found extremely useful is related to process definition. One should keep process definition as […]