Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business

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Tips, techniques, and trends on how to use dashboard technology to optimize business performance

Business performance management is a hot new management discipline that delivers tremendous value when supported by information technology. Through case studies and industry research, this book shows how leading companies are using performance dashboards to execute strategy, optimize business processes, and improve performance.

Wayne W. Eckerson (Hingham, MA) is the Director of Research for The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI), the leading association of business intelligence and data warehousing professionals worldwide that provide high-quality, in-depth education, training, and research. He is a columnist for SearchCIO.com, DM Review, Application Development Trends, the Business Intelligence Journal, and TDWI Case Studies & Solution.

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Managing the Documentation Maze: Answers to Questions You Didnt Even Know to Ask

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The accessible, easy-to-follow guide that demystifies documentation management

When it comes to receiving documentation to confirm good science, U.S. and international regulators place high demands on the healthcare industry. As a result, companies developing and manufacturing therapeutic products must implement a strategy that allows them to properly manage their records and documents, since they must comply with rigorous standards and be available for regulatory review or inspection at a moment’s notice.

Written in a user-friendly Q&A style for quick reference, Managing the Documentation Maze provides answers to 750 questions the authors encounter frequently in their roles as consultants and trainers. In simple terms, this handy guide breaks down the key components that facilitate successful document management, and shows why it needs to be a core discipline in the industry with information on:

• Compliance with regulations in pharmaceutical, biological, and device record keeping
• Electronic systems, hybrid systems, and the entire scope of documentation that companies must manage
• How to write and edit documents that meet regulatory compliance
• Making the transition to an electronic system, including how to validate and document the process

Anyone responsible for managing documents in the health field will find this book to be a trusted partner in unraveling the bureaucratic web of confusion, while it initiates a plan on how to put an effective, lasting system in place—one that will stand up to any type of scrutiny. 

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Models and Tools for Managing Development Processes

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This book is devoted to models and tools for managing development processes in the fields of software engineering and mechanical and chemical engineering. The author evaluates the state of the art in the area and presents an integrated approach addressing the limitations of the presently available tools and systems. The models introduced for managing development processes cover products, activities, and resources in a systematic and coherent way; moreover, the models are designed to cope with the dynamics of the development processes. The tools and the management system developed by the author provide customized environments for different classes of users. The management environment supports managers in coordinating managerial activities; developers use the work environment in order to perform technical activities; finally, the modeling environment is used to adapt the management system to specific application domains.

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Managing Complex Service Systems (Service Science: Research and Innovations in the Service Economy)

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This book establishes and communicates a scientific approach to the analysis, design and management of complex information systems enabled services. Case studies illustrate how the techniques described can be employed in large scale, real world examples that are developed to match the theoretical and practical presentation.

The authors reframe the problem of analyzing a complex service system from an `understand the system' view to an `understand it under control' perspective. This fundamental change recognizes that service systems are largely constructed and should be treated differently from natural systems, something that has typically been ignored in the past. By shifting to a view in which the systems dynamics over the full range of significant factors -- people, the economic and physical environments, as well as technology options -- are understood, many of the pitfalls that have sunk large projects in the past can be avoided.

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Managing Systems Requirements: Methods, Tools, and Cases

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Aiming to provide a blueprint for aligning business process with business objectives, this book covers practical methods, real-life case studies and commercial software tools relating to process re-engineering.

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Guide to Software Development: Designing and Managing the Life Cycle

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This book addresses how best to make build vs. buy decisions, and what effect such decisions have on the software development life cycle (SDLC). Offering an integrated approach that includes important management and decision practices, the text explains how to create successful solutions that fit user and customer needs, by mixing different SDLC methodologies. Features: provides concrete examples and effective case studies; focuses on the skills and insights that distinguish successful software implementations; covers management issues as well as technical considerations, including how to deal with political and cultural realities in organizations; identifies many new alternatives for how to manage and model a system using sophisticated analysis tools and advanced management practices; emphasizes how and when professionals can best apply these tools and practices, and what benefits can be derived from their application; discusses searching for vendor solutions, and vendor contract considerations.

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Managing Software Debt: Building for Inevitable Change (Agile Software Development Series)

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Shipping imperfect software is like going into debt. When you incur debt, the illusion of doing things faster can lead to exponential growth in the cost of maintaining software. Software debt takes five major forms: technical, quality, configuration management, design, and platform experience. In today’s rush to market, software debt is inevitable. And that’s okay—if you’re careful about the debt you incur, and if you quickly pay it back.

 

In Managing Software Debt, leading Agile expert Chris Sterling shows how understanding software debt can help you move products to market faster, with a realistic plan for refactoring them based on experience. Writing for all Agile software professionals, Sterling explains why you’re going into software debt whether you know it or not—and why the interest on that debt can bring projects to a standstill. Next, he thoroughly explains each form of software debt, showing how to plan for it intelligently and repay it successfully. You’ll learn why accepting software debt is not the same as deliberate sloppiness, and you’ll learn how to use the software debt concept to systematically improve architectural agility. Coverage includes

 

• Managing tensions between speed and perfection and recognizing that you’ll inevitably ship some “not quite right” code
• Planning to minimize interest payments by paying debts quickly
• Building architectures that respond to change and help enterprises run more smoothly
• Incorporating emergent architecture concepts into daily activities, using Agile collaboration and refactoring techniques
• Delivering code and other software internals that reduce the friction of future change
• Using early, automated testing to move past the “break/fix” mentality
• Scripting and streamlining both deployment and rollback
• Implementing team configuration patterns and knowledge sharing approaches that make software debt easier to repay
• Clearing away technical impediments in existing architectures
• Using the YAGNI (“you ain’t gonna need it”) approach to strip away unnecessary complexity

 

Using this book’s techniques, senior software leadership can deliver more business value; managers can organize and support development teams more effectively; and teams and team members can improve their performance throughout the development lifecycle.

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