During a conference call with investors, CEO Edward D. Breen defended DuPontâs research spending, saying the firm will still be âone of the highest R&D companies in the world.â Breen noted âwe were very selectiveâ in making the R&D reductions.
System development methodologies are promoted as a means of improving the management and control of the software development process, structuring and simplifying the process, and standardizing the development process and product by specifying activities to be done and techniques to be used.
Six Sigma is a disciplined, data-driven approach and methodology for eliminating defects (driving toward six standard deviations between the mean and the nearest specification limit) in any process -- from manufacturing to transactional and from product to service.