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Index

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Machiavelli, Niccolo
Mahalanobis distance
Mahalanobis-Taguchi System (MTS)
maintainability
maintenance
     additional resources
     discussion questions and projects
     Internet exercises
     key points
     maintaining software functionality out of existence
     overview of
     problems
     review questions
     software field maintenance case study
major failure
Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 case study
Malcolm Baldridge award
management 2nd 3rd 4th
     commitment, lack of
     communicating management's consensus and commitment
     fourteen points for managers 2nd
     lack of management support
     management awareness and buy-in 2nd
     management principles, integrating
     middle management apathy
management awareness and buy-in 2nd
Management by Total Results
management's consensus and commitment, communicating
manufactured products, compared to software
manufacturing variation
mapping failure modes to sources
marketing brand-new products
master black belt training 2nd
matrices
     Matrix Data Analysis
    matrix diagrams
         definition of
         recommended applications 2nd
     orthogonal matrices 2nd
    prioritization matrices
         Combination I.D./Matrix Method
         Consensus Criteria Method
         definition of
         Full Analytical Criteria Method
Maximum Value Table (MVT) 2nd
MD Robotics case study 2nd
     body deployment
         body motion hierarchy
         primary structure of triceratops
         storyboards vs. body motion matrix
     company profile
     emotion deployment
     engineering requirements deployment
     hierarchy of emotional states
     project goals
     QFD (Quality Function Deployment) 2nd
     Scope of Work document
     Voice of Customer Tables
measurement
     IT portfolio alignment
         pairwise judgments
         priorities
         ratings
     iterative processes
     software quality
     TQM (Total Quality Management)
meta-compilers
metrics
     availability
     customer satisfaction
     cyclomatic complexity
     for DFTS evaluation
     effort
     function point metrics
     in-process quality metrics for software testing
     methodology
     pattern metrics
     quality
     reliability
     size
     software complexity metrics
     software science
     usability
     verification
Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Initiative
     communications
     goals of
     secure by default
     secure by design
     secure in deployment
Minitab14 2nd
minor failure
mistake-proofing [See deploying poka yoke systems.]
mistakes
     as causes of defects
     types of
models of software development [See life cycle.]
modern programming environments
module testing
monitoring and feedback 2nd
MTS (Mahalanobis-Taguchi System)
muda
multiobjective decision-making (AHP)
     decision hierarchy
     objectives hierarchy
     terminology
multiple regression analysis
MVT (Maximum Value Table) 2nd