DevOps Drives Innovation

DevOps is a set of cultural and technical practices that help organizations improve how they work so they can deliver better software faster. Companies who want to move to a DevOps model need to have an Agile mindset and need a cultural change as to how the organization functions. In the current market, there is a need for software to be delivered more frequently, reliably and at higher quality standards. Companies move to Agile software development methodologies to help support the needs, to move to crossfunctional teams that are self-organizing and can deliver software on a much more frequent cadence. This paper talks about the challenges for adopting DevOps and the changes companies need to make, also discussing how the innovation in Agile software development lead to DevOps and how that is changing the organizational culture

Vacation Rental Web Application for City of Seaside

The aim of the project is to create a mobile web application which will help homeowners in the Seaside area to convert their property into vacation rental. The process is complex and it includes various steps, our application will simplify the process and help people smoothly navigate through it. The main objective is to create a mobile web application to help small investors to turn their properties into rentals to increase tourism. The project will start from September 12th, 2016 and completes December 6th, 2016. Additionally, the project will terminate by integration into the overall city website and be successfully maintained by the City of Seaside’s IT website maintenance department. The goal of the project is to deliver a web based application that will be mobile enabled and provide the information required for a home owner in converting their property into a vacation rental. The new website when launched will provide all the steps required for the conversion process along with additional information needed, including links to third party sites

Financing vs. Cash Flow: Impact for the B/E of ‘Power Production Module’ of Green Corp

This paper provides an engineering economic analysis for an alternate energy startup company called Green Corp. The goal is to identify the breakeven year when the company can stop external financing and be completely self-sustained, with internal financing. A three-phase approach is taken to implement the project, the phases are Data collection, Analysis and Implications. The analysis is done for 5 different sizes of the product in three different areas, with different utility rates. The economic analysis results showed that utility rate impacted the breakeven year, also found that interest rate did not impact the breakeven year

Site Selection Evaluation utilizing HDM Model & STEEP Perspectives: Case Study - Pyramid Power

This paper presents a limited framework using Hierarchical Decision Making model with STEEP perspectives to assist in site selection for an environmentally focused waste energy conversion project. The framework in limited in that the structure presented is a stem, the beginning, and should be expanded upon if used. Examples of expansion criteria are given in this document to be considered along with relevant criteria derived from specific company and project background. When choosing where to implement an energy-sector green project on a global scale there are countless factors that can help a project succeed or fail. Literature research yielded consistent and historical vetted cases where STEEP (social, technical, environmental, economic, political - sometimes abbreviated to PEST or PESTEL) perspectives were proven effective. This paper presents a model where project locations can be plugged in and relative weights can easily be assigned to suggest and categorize locations. To prove the model, a sample case study was used against the limited model for the company Pyramid Power in an endeavor to select a location for industrial diesel generator heat capture tooling. This tooling improves energy output by as much as 30% without additional fuel. The scale and success of this initial project are crucial to the success of the company, thus site selection is a top priority

Meet ARA, The Modular Phone Marketing Plan Report and Research Log

Project ARA is an initiative that aims to develop an open hardware platform for creating highly modular smartphones. This initiative provides a vehicle to support Google’s overall mission of organizing and connecting the world\u27s data making it not only useful but universally accessible. Data suggests that mobile technology, such as smartphones is significantly increasing in usage, so much that it is doubling that of laptop/desktop usage. Supporting data shows since 2008, mobile devices have been on a steep increase of usage [1] [2]. Google is using Project ARA to infiltrate this increasing mobile market by using the idea of a modular smartphone to not only meet the customer needs of customization but also to continue Google’s mission and demand for more data usage