Internet Management (Best Practices)

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Internet Management is an encyclopedia of Internet management know-how. Over the course of 50 chapters, experts provide advice on everything from choosing the right Web database to finding a reliable Web consultant, and the implications of using CGI to the pros and cons of using GIF. And throughout, coverage is supplemented with helpful examples, fascinating and instructive case studies, and hundreds of illustrations.

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Project Requirements: A Guide to Best Practices

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"Project Requirements: A Guide to Best Practices" gives project managers tools they can assimilate and apply easily to improve project success rates, reduce development costs, reduce rework, and accelerate time to market. Based on experience and best practices, this valuable reference will help you: clarify real requirements before you initiate project work; improve management of project requirements; save time and effort; manage to your schedule; improve the quality of deliverables; and, increase customer satisfaction and drive repeat business.

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Software Metrics: Best Practices for Successful IT Management

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If you have any responsibility for applying measurement to IT Application Development,Application Support or Outsourced Service supply in these areas, this is the book for you! You may be the Sponsor of a Software Metrics program, responsible for implementing such a program or part of a Benchmarking initiative. This book can help you avoid the pitfalls inherent in such programs so that you make your program a success. SOFTWARE METRICS: BEST PRACTICES FOR SUCCESSFUL IT MANAGEMENT will give you a comprehensive introduction to the subject area. Beyond this, the book provides a wealth of useful case study information and gives a wide range of useful, practical measurement models, based on years of experience across many industry sectors, that you can start to use today. This book is unique in that, as well as giving the technical, subject background necessary to make Software Metrics work, it presents a full lifecycle for measurement program development and implementation. This lifecycle breaks the whole, complicated problem of getting a measurement program up and running into manageable phases; each one defined and described in detail with easy to follow descriptions. Even Function Point Analysis, the break point for many a program, is de-mystified and placed into the context of what it does and how it can work for you. All of this is presented in an easily understood style that assumes no prior knowledge while the experience of the author, gained over twenty years of measurement practice in the IT arena, is such that even experienced practitioners will gain from reading this book. ENDORSED BY THE EUROPEAN SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION "The European Software Process Improvement (ESPI) Foundation is pleased to endorse this book. We see it as a valuable and helpful contribution to the world wide challenge to achieve real and measurable process improvement within the software engineering industry. Only by sharing experiences, both positive and negative, can we hope to accelerate the improvement of development and support activities within our industry. The author is well known to us within the Foundation having spoken at our annual conference and other ESPI events on numerous occasions and we can genuinely state that this book positively contributes to the sharing of experience that we exist to promote." - Tony Elkington, Director, ESPI Foundation

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On Time Within Budget: Software Project Management Practices and Techniques, 3rd Edition

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A developer's survival guide packed with real-life case

studies, tips, techniques, and best practices for completing software projects on time and within budget

Whether you work at a large or small company, this book will provide you with expert, down-in-the-trenches tips, techniques, and strategies to deliver a software project in a cost-effective and timely way. Real-life case studies let you learn from the mistakes as well as the successes of others. Author E. M. Bennatan zeroes in on proven methods for avoiding bottlenecks and overruns at every step in the software development cycle--from cost estimating to product delivery.

The Third Edition of this bestselling guide routes you directly to what you need to know about:
* Managing both small and large projects in a distributed environment
* Common development problems and how to avoid them
* Preparing estimates and proposals and bidding for contracts
* Managing teams for maximum quality and productivity
* Proven scheduling and project development planning techniques

New to this edition:
* How best to ensure an effective relationship with customers
* Risk management and disaster prevention
* The pros and cons of acquiring custom software from outside suppliers
* Managing multinational projects
* How to save time by reusing software components

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UX Best Practices How to Achieve More Impact with User Experience

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Significantly increase your impact on product development with tested and validated User Experience (UX) techniques

About the Book
UX Best Practices, Processes, & Techniques is a compendium of proven UX strategies, based on the real experiences of a global set of UX gurus. Each chapter focuses on specific or collections of UX practices implemented in real-world scenarios within global companies such as SAP, Siemens (Germany), Lenovo, Ping An, Tencent, Changhong (China), Intuit (US), Swiss Federal Railways (Switzerland). This definitive guide is filled with tested, validated, authentic best practices, processes, and methods for successfully implementing and integrating UX in any development initiative.

UX Best Practices, Processes, & Techniques

• Features more than 20 global contributors who present cutting-edge approaches
• Focuses on a unique practice or set of practices in each chapter implemented in an actual organization
• Includes real-world examples that demonstrate how moving UX up front in the development cycle can improve quality in measurable ways and positively impact the bottom line
• Contains techniques you can easily apply to your own development initiatives

In-depth coverage:
Integrated & Established UX Process; Utilizing IBM’s IPD Process; Becoming More User Experience Focused; UX Process with UI Widgets & Systematic Localization Capabilities; UX for Product Innovation for Medical Devices; Maintaining the Vision from Start to Finish—Front-End Solution Process; User Experience & Agile Development; Design Thinking; UX Targets & UX Priorities; UX Brief; UX Prototyping; UX Patterns; UX KPIs for Product Improvements; Setting Up & Sustaining User Experience’s Impact

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Enterprise Systems Integration, Second Edition (Best Practices)

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The convergence of knowledge, technology, and human performance which comprises today's enterprise allows creative business process design. Thus, an organization can create new and innovative ways to service customers or to do business with suppliers and make itself a leader in its field. This capability relies on a successful strategy that integrates the enterprise. Enterprise Systems Integration, Second Edition continues to provide you with the business insight and the technical know-how that ensures successful systems integration.
The book combines the perspectives, knowledge, and experience of more than 70 experts in the various areas that involve enterprise integration. Their expertise ranges from hands-on experience with technology and project management to the higher-level issues of business and management strategy. Each chapter examines an issue or technology relevant to today's enterprise. Collectively, these chapters span the range of enterprise computing and systems integration.
Once armed with the strategy and technologies, you must successfully deploy ERP systems within budget and on time. In addition, you must be able to integrate them into the rest of the enterprise. Still, ERP software does not make up the full picture of today's enterprise. Legacy systems, e-commerce and other Web-based systems, client/server applications, networks and communications systems, data warehousing, and integrated databases enter into the mix. Enterprise Systems Integration, Second Edition paints a comprehensive picture of the technologies that comprise today's enterprise and shows you how to make them work together.

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Developing Quality Complex Database Systems: Practices, Techniques and Technologies

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The objective of Developing Quality Complex Database Systems is to provide opportunities for improving today's database systems using innovative development practices, tools and techniques. Each chapter of this book will provide insight into the effective use of database technology through models, case studies or experience reports. An emphasis is placed on organizational and management issues associated with the use of such technology inclusive of lessons learned and best practices.

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Software Assessments, Benchmarks, and Best Practices

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Traditionally, qualitative software assessments and quantitative benchmarking have been performed separately -- if at all. Moreover, many quantitative benchmarks have been proprietary secrets. Now, world-renowned authority Capers Jones has integrated qualitative and quantitative approaches into the first complete methodology for identifying best -- and worst -- software development practices. Readers will discover more effective ways to leverage assessment techniques such as the Capability Maturity Model (CMM); learn the best benchmarks and metrics; and link quantitative benchmarks to qualitative assessments. The methodology presented in this book gives developers and managers a powerful new way to project and evaluate the productivity and quality improvements associated with changes in software processes. The result: better quality, achieved more quickly and at lower cost.

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The Practical Guide to Defect Prevention (Best Practices (Microsoft))

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This practical, hands-on guide captures, categorizes, and builds a process of best practices to help avoid creating defects during the development process—rather than fixing them after extensive analysis. While there are various proprietary and competing standards for reducing software defects, these methods suffer from issues involving timeliness, effectiveness, and cost. What’s more, many other books focus on fixing errors after they’ve been introduced or promote idealized academic theories. This guide, however, presents practical methods for reducing defect introduction through prevention and immediate detection and by moving the detection of defects closer to their introduction. Written by experts with over a century of software development experience among them, this book distills hard-won lessons into a single, workable lifecycle process that will help deliver better-quality software. Visit the Defect Prevention Web site at http://www.defectprevention.org

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