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A Lightweight Software Process Assessment Approach based on MDevSPICE® for Medical Device Development Domain
Get PDFSoftware process improvement is challenging in the medical device development domain, as significant constraints exist such as ensuring conformance to regulations while improving software quality. The regulations that medical products are subject to may be overwhelming for organisations as a variety of international standards have to be implemented in order to address regulatory compliance. MDevSPICE® is a framework developed to overcome this challenge by integrating different international regulatory standards’ requirements with generic software development best practices. Keeping the complexity of the domain in mind, the formal process assessments performed based on MDevSPICE® are highly detailed and require significant resource and effort investment. With the MDevSPICE® lightweight software process assessment approach, we aim to obtain maximum benefit from an assessment within a limited time by assessing all processes within MDevSPICE®, specifying and presenting major issues in projects, prioritizing such issues and progressing to the improvement stage as early as possible. The approach has designed to be a solution to improve feedback time and motivation to move forward for software process improvement actions. In this experience paper, we describe the development of the lightweight MDevSPICE® assessment method and its implementation in four companies
Supporting older people with multimorbidity: Experiences of caregiver burden among paid care workers in Ireland
Get PDFAbair Trad Report on the Creative Ireland Symposium on Irish traditional music
Get PDFAbair Trad was a community based response to the Irish Government’s Creative Ireland programme that was held in The Red Store, Youghal, Co. Cork on Saturday 24th June 2017. Organised by Craobh Eochaille CCÉ with the support of Cork County Council, the symposium sought to debate, discuss and share ideas about the value and importance of culture and creativity in the context of the new programme. The event was attended by a number of invited speakers and valued contributions from the audience which comprised of a range of stakeholders including members of various branches of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, creative arts practitioners, and parents. The symposium recognised that the traditional arts symbolise and embody the creativeness of Irish people for generations and sought to explore the potential for the traditional arts within the Creative Ireland Programme. The event was hosted by local Comhaltas Chairman Mícheál de Buitléir and facilitated by Dr Daithí Kearney from the Department of Creative Arts, Media and Music at Dundalk Institute of Technology. The morning featured presentations from Michael O’Reilly (Creative Ireland), Conor Nelligan (Cork County Council), Dr Matt Cranitch (musician), Dr Michelle Finnerty (UCC), Dr Jessica Cawley (Creative Traditions), Willie Larkin (Tradtime™), Maurice Mullen (Ceoltóirí Cluain Tarbh), and Dr Adèle Commins (DkIT). Through short presentations, group discussions and roundtable talks, the day brought together practitioners, policy-makers, academics and other stakeholders covering the five pillars of the exciting five-year Programme. This report seeks to share their ideas and outline a vision for the traditional arts in a creative Ireland
How does Scrum Conform to the Regulatory Requirements Defined in MDevSPICE?
Get PDFMedical device software development is subject to high regulations due to the potential risk of harming patients with unsafe medical devices. These regulations require software development to be performed with high discipline and evidence to be provided for auditory purposes. It’s not easy to manage both conformance to regulations and efficiency in medical device development. Therefore, there is a transition towards agility in safety critical systems development, to build high quality systems, shorten time to market, improve customer and employee satisfaction and ensure both safety and reliability. In this study, we evaluated one of the most highly adopted agile software development methods, Scrum from a regulatory perspective. We investigated to what extend the regulatory requirements defined in MDevSPICE® are met with implementation of the Scrum method and what additional processes and practices have to be performed to ensure safety and regulatory compliance in the healthcare domain
A critical and maternal narrative approach to practice, enhancing recognition and solidarity with ambivalent representations
No full textThis is a conceptual paper that uses a critical practice approach to how a social worker’s interpretive lens may transform after they become a parent. With a composite case example, I reflect on my own biographical maternal narrative, which aims to enhance the recognition and solidarity with ambivalent representations in the journey of motherhood. I conceptualise maternal narratives with Fook’s critical approaches to practice framework (2016). I interweave a composite case example that I had direct experience and privilege of working with, along with my own biographical experience of mothering. The central themes that have emerged from my critical reflective analysis are; ambivalence, imperfection and guilt. This open ended inquiry outlines a new way of knowing. The primary data are biographical. For the purpose of this critical reflective article I am a mother, and hence I refer to my gendered experience. The article attempts to explore how my social work practice is afforded a new interpretative lens and reconstruction after my own transition into motherhood
Mobile medical app development with a focus on traceability
Get PDFToday, the growth of medical devices and mobile medical applications is increasing enormously, thanks to the efficiency and enhancement of new technology. When it comes to mobile medical apps, developers need to understand what is required when a mobile application fulfils the definition of a medical device. Such applications have to be developed in compliance with medical device regulations. This can be a challenge for mobile medical application developers, as medical device software is normally developed in a manner that will also ensure the production of regulatory documentation that is essential to market such devices. In this paper, we identify the need for a mobile medical application development framework, the key criteria for such a framework, and describe how the results were collected through performing a Medical Device Software Development workshop. Furthermore, we describe how MDevSPICE together with an agile software development approach can be tailored to support a mobile medical applications development framework. We detail one of the key criteria for mobile medical application development framework—traceability
A Louth Lilt
Get PDFA collection of tunes in the Irish traditional idiom composed by Adèle Commins and Daithí Kearney
Capturing the Moment and Replaying the Tape: Developing Technology-Enhanced Strategies for Student Learning and Engagement in Music Performance at Third Level
Get PDFInitially motivated by a need to create clear guidelines for assessment and feedback on group performances in music, this chapter reflects on the impact of an intervention developed during an accredited professional development programme in learning and teaching to utilise audio-visual technology to improve the student learning experience by making recordings of classroom activities accessible to students through a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). Students on the music programme engage in a series of ensemble performance projects across a range of genres. Building on the concept of assessment for learning, the project involves consideration of effective group work, student interaction and engagement in group learning activities within and beyond the classroom. Formative peer assessment becomes an integral tool in the development of motivation and understanding and can help identify areas or skills that students need to develop from week to week over the course of the module. Participation in an accredited professional development programme allowed the lecturer to share ideas, learn from critique and develop best practice in terms of research and implementation within and beyond the discipline of music
Labour in County Louth, 1912–1923
Get PDFIf the history of the Irish revolution 1912–23 is written as an armed struggle between the IRA and the Crown forces then Co. Louth, as one of the less active areas, would seem to be disengaged from the revolution. However, the strength of the national mobilisation in 1919–23 cannot be measured by IRA activity alone. Labour militancy, whilst supportive of the abstract nationalism of the republican movement, mobilised the working class on concrete and specific grievances, which it was expected, the republic would address. In the course of the Irish revolution, labour resistance to the British state at local level in Co. Louth was organised in direct action, in non-violent strikes, embargoes and in civil disobedience. When the working class organises itself as ‘labour’, the objective is to achieve better wages and working conditions. But militancy on wages is never about wages alone. It is also about a better and more secure future. This, as it seemed to some in Ireland in the years 1912–23, may be through revolutionary struggle to establish a completely new society, but for most workers it is usually through trade union mobilisation to confront capital or through political mobilisation to drive state action in support of the working class
Reliving Island Life: Staging Stories of the Blasket Islands
Get PDFThe Blasket Islands are located off the south-west coast of Ireland. No longer inhabited, the Great Blasket Island and its distinctive culture have been documented by a variety of writers and are celebrated today in an interpretative centre on the mainland and in performances by Siamsa Tire, The National Folk Theatre of Ireland. "Siamsa" developed from local initiatives in North Kerry during the early 1960s and is located today in Tralee, Co. Kerry. It aims to present Irish folklore and folk culture through the medium of theatre involving music, song, dance and mime but invariably no dialogue. In this paper, I focus on the production Oiléan, based loosely on the stories of the Blasket Islanders, which was initially devised as part of the fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the departure of the last inhabitants of the islands in 2003