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How to Deal with Over 150 Issues and Risks. The rate of failure of IT projects has remained little changed in survey after survey over the past 15-20 yearsover 40-50. This has happened in spite of new technology,innovative methods and tools,and different management methods. Why does this happen? Why cant the situation be better? One reason is that many think of each IT effort as unique. In reality many IT projects are very similar at a high,strategic level. Where they differ is in the people and exact eventsthe detail. If you read the literature or have been in information systems or IT for some time,you have seen the same reasons for failure and the same problems and issues recur again and again. In this book IT Management experts Ben Lientz and Lee Larssen show you how to identify and track the recurring issues leading to failure in IT projects and provide a proven,modern method for addressing them. By following the recommendations in this books readers can significantly reduce the risk of IT failures and increase the rate of success. Benefits of using this approach: Issues are identified earliergiving more time for solution and action.,Issues are resolved more consistently since the approach tracks on their repetition.,You get an early warning of problems in IT workbefore the budget or schedule fall apart.,Management tends to have more realistic expectations with an awareness of issues.,Users and managers have greater confidence in IT due to the improved handling of issues.,Since the number of issues tends to stabilize in an organization,the IT organization and management get better at detecting,preventing,and dealing with issues over timecumulative improvement.,Giving attention to issuesmake users more realistic in their requests and acts to deter requirement changes and scope creep. * Full of checklists and methods that can be used in day to day Project Management work in real companies .* Easy to read style and book organization allows the reader to jump into the book right at the point they need.* Shows how to set up an issues database for better identification and tracking of issues,providing an Early Warning System to help move the project to success

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   Title: Risk Management For It Projects
   Publisher: Elsevier India Private Limited
   Edition: Paperback1ST
   Edition Number: 1
   Language: English
   ISBN: 8131206645
   EAN: 9788131206645

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The Cmdb Imperative: How to Realize the Dream and Avoid the Nightmares (Paperback)

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Implement Configuration Management Databases that Deliver Rapid ROI and Sustained Business Value Implementing an enterprise-wide Configuration Management Database (CMDB) is one of the most powerful things an IT organization can do to improve service delivery and bridge the gap between technology and the business. With a working CMDB in place, companies are better positioned to manage and optimize IT infrastructure, automate more IT management tasks, and restrain burgeoning costs. Now, there’s an objective, vendor-independent guide to making CMDB work in your organization. “The CMDB Imperative” thoroughly demystifies CMDBs, and presents a start-to-finish implementation methodology that works. Expert CMDB consultant Glenn O’Donnell and leading-edge implementer Carlos Casanova first review the drivers behind CMDB, and the technical, economic, cultural, and “political” obstacles to success. Drawing on the experiences of hundreds of organizations, they present indispensable guidance on architecting and customizing CMDB solutions to your specific environment. One step at a time, you’ll walk through planning, implementation, transitioning into production, day-to-day operation and maintenance, and much more. Along the way, the authors offer best-practice solutions for knotty issues that complicate implementation, including data ownership. Coverage includes

  • Defining the tasks and activities associated with configuration management
  • Understanding CMDB’s role in ITIL, and the relationship between CMDBs and Configuration Management Systems
  • Building software models that accurately represent each entity in your IT environment
  • Understanding the state of the CMDBmarket, and selling CMDB within your organization
  • Creating federated CMDB architectures that successfully balance autonomy with centralized control
  • Planning a deployment strategy that sets appropriate priorities and reflects a realistic view of your organization’s maturity
  • Integrating systems and leveraging standards
  • Previewing the future of CMDBs, and how they will be impacted by key trends such as virtualization, SOA, mobility, convergence, and “flexi-sourcing”
  • Continuously improving the CMDB you’ve already deployed
Whatever your role in planning, architecting, delivering, or managing configuration management, this book will help you drive maximum business value from CMDB-now, and for years to come. Foreword Prologue Chapter 1: The Need for Process Discipline Chapter 2: What is a CMDB? Chapter 3: Planning for the Configuration Management System Chapter 4: The Federated CMS Architecture Chapter 5: CMS Deployment Strategy Chapter 6: Integration-There’s No Way Around It Chapter 7: The Future of the CMS Chapter 8: Continuous Improvement for the CMS Chapter 9: Leveraging the CMS Chapter 10: Enjoy the Fruits of Success Glossary

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   Title: The Cmdb Imperative: How to Realize the Dream and Avoid the Nightmares
   Publisher: Prentice Hall
   Author: Glenn O Donnell, Carlos Casanova
   Edition: Paperback
   Language: English
   ISBN: 0137008376
   EAN: 9780137008377
   No. of Pages: 368
   Publish Date: 2009-2-1
   Binding: Paperback

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Change Management in It Best Practices- Simplify It Changes with Change Management Process, Plans and Templates – Integrated, Fast, Simple and Success (Paperback)

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Change Management is an IT Service Management discipline. The objective of Change Management in this context is to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes to controlled IT infrastructure, in order to minimize the number and impact of any related incidents upon service.

Changes in the IT infrastructure may arise reactively in response to problems or externally imposed requirements, e.g. legislative changes, or proactively from seeking imposed efficiency and effectiveness or to enable or reflect business initiatives, or from programs, projects or service improvement initiatives.

Change Management can ensure standardized methods, processes and procedures are used for all changes, facilitate efficient and prompt handling of all changes, and maintain the proper balance between the need for change and the potential detrimental impact of changes.

This book is filled with plans, templates and procedures to fast and successfully ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes, in order to minimize the impact of change-related incidents upon service quality, and consequently improve the day-to-day operations of your organization.

This detailed book will enable you to Filter changes, Manage changes and the change process, Chair the CAB and the CAB/Emergency committee, Review and close Requests for Change (RFCs) and supply Management reporting and provide management information on IT Change Management.

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   Title: Change Management in It Best Practices- Simplify It Changes with Change Management Process, Plans and Templates – Integrated, Fast, Simple and Success
   Publisher: Emereo Pty Ltd
   Author: Gerard Blokdijk, Ivanka Menken
   Edition: Paperback
   Language: English
   ISBN: 1921523719
   EAN: 9781921523717
   No. of Pages: 156
   Publish Date: 2008-09-30
   Binding: Paperback

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Software Maintenance Management: Evaluation and Continuous Improvement (Paperback)

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This book explores the domain of software maintenance management and provides road maps for improving software maintenance organizations. It describes full maintenance maturity models organized by levels 1, 2, and 3, which allow for benchmarking and continuous improvement paths. Goals for each key practice area are also provided, and the model presented is fully aligned with the architecture and framework of software development maturity models of CMMI and ISO 15504. It is complete with case studies, figures, tables, and graphs.

The only authoritative reference to provide a management perspective of software maintenance

Software maintenance accounts for 60-90% of software life-cycle costs, and unfortunately, very little attention is given to software maintenance education, training, and research. Now, two experts in the field explain how understanding software maintenance, implementing best practices, and improving its processes can help software managers to dramatically cut costs.

Software Maintenance Management explores the domain of software maintenance management and provides road maps for improving software maintenance organizations. It describes full maintenance maturity models organized by levels 1, 2, and 3, which allow for benchmarking and continuous improvement paths. Goals for each key practice area are also provided, and the model presented is fully aligned with the architecture and framework of software development maturity models of CMMI and ISO 15504.

Complete with case studies, figures, tables, and graphs, Software Maintenance Management fills the need for a comprehensive and authoritative reference on the subject for maintenance managers, software managers, systems analysts, quality managers, and quality analysts. It alsoserves as a valuable textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in softwareengineering, software maintenance, software process improvement, and software benchmarking.

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Alain Abran has contributed to Software Maintenance Management: Evaluation and Continuous Improvement as an author.
Alain April, PhD, is Professor of Software Engineering at Universite du Quebec (Canada). His research interests include software maintenance, software quality assurance, and multimedia databases. Dr. April has worked in the telecommunications industry for more than twenty years, has contributed to the internal measurement of software of ISO 9126-3, and is an Editor of The Guide to Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) chapters on software maintenance and software quality.

Alain Abran, PhD, is Professor and the Director of the Software Engineering Research Laboratory at Universite

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   Title: Software Maintenance Management: Evaluation and Continuous Improvement
   Publisher: IEEE Computer Society Press
   Author: Alain April, Alain Abran
   Edition: Paperback
   Language: English
   ISBN: 0470147075
   EAN: 9780470147078
   No. of Pages: 314
   Publish Date: 2008-4-30
   Binding: Paperback

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Health Management Information Systems: Methods and Practical Applications (Hardcover)

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This book provides a general overview of health management information systems for students in graduate level and upper-level undergraduate programs in health administration. Health Management Information Systems, Second Edition is also appropriate for health information systems and management professionals. This book looks at the needs of the entire health care industry. Information, practical examples, and case studies from the many facets of the health care industry (hospitals, HMO’s IPAs, long-term care facilities, home health agencies, etc.) are included.

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   Title: Health Management Information Systems: Methods and Practical Applications
   Publisher: Aspen Publishers
   Author: Joseph K H Tan
   Edition: Hardcover
   Edition Number: 2
   Language: English
   ISBN: 0834217775
   EAN: 9780834217775
   No. of Pages: 380
   Publish Date: 2001-01-31
   Binding: Hardcover

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Management Information System for Industrial Safety Health & Environment (Paperback)

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Management Information System (MIS) is an integral part of modern day safety management functions and requires the same degree of thought and attention as the other management aspects. The system must be dynamic, evolving and continually improving, which can be made possible through effective monitoring of Safety Management System (SMS) by auditing and inspection. Simple compliance with prescriptive legislation will no longer be an acceptable policy. Any MIS would have to be designed to be practical and ‘user friendly’, such that it will promote a ‘Safety Culture’ in an efficient and effective manner. Management Information System for Industrial Safety Health and Environment contains in-depth discussions on MIS aspects with respect to safety management activities including Hazard and Risk Management, Safety Education and Training, Work-environment Monitoring, Safety Performance Monitoring and Reporting, Gap Analysis and Continual Improvement. Appendices have been added in the book for additional information, besides practice checklists and formats, which will come handy for the students, practicing HSE professionals and managers. The book would also encourage professionals to use dynamic as well as modern Management Information System in the field of Health, Safety and Environment Management.
The book discusses conformity assessment and non-conformity tracking methodologies which can be better carried out through a suitably implemented MIS. Document control and continuous improvement strategies have been deliberated following the ISO standards on Health & Safety (OHSAS-18001), and Environment (ISO-140001).

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   Title: Management Information System for Industrial Safety Health & Environment
   Publisher: MacMillan
   Edition: Paperback
   Language: English
   EAN: 9780230328884
   No. of Pages: 408

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Membrane Computing, WMC 2009, held in Curtea de Arges, Romania, during August 24 to 27, 2009 under the auspices of the European Molecular Computing Consortium (EMCC) and the Molecular Computing Task Force of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

The 22 revised full papers presented together with 10 invited papers went through two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers in this volume cover all the main directions of research in membrane computing, ranging from theoretical topics in mathematics and computer science to application issues; the invited lectures present fundamental contributions to membrane computing; thus highlighting important directions of current research in this area.

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   Title: Membrane Computing
   Publisher: Springer
   Author: Gheorghe Paun, Mario J Perez Jimenez, Agustin Riscos Nunez
   Edition: PaperbackEdition.
   Language: English
   ISBN: 3642114660
   EAN: 9783642114663
   No. of Pages: 485
   Publish Date: 2010-4-30
   Binding: Paperback

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101 Great Resumes, Third Edition 101 Great Resumes, Third Edition (Paperback )

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In 101 Great Resumes, you will find the resume format that will work wonders for you, one that can showcase your unique background, situation and career goals and help you land your dream job. It features resumes tailored to the individual situations, challenges, and aspirations of today’s job seekers.

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Ron Fry has contributed to 101 Great Resumes, Third Edition 101 Great Resumes, Third Edition as an author.
Ron Fry is a nationally known proponent for the improvement of public education and an advocate for parents and students playing an active role in strengthening personal education programs. In addition to being the author of the best selling How to Study series, which has sold over two million copies to date, Fry has written more than 30 different books with the intention of providing resources to assist in education reform to realize his ultimate goal of achieving optimum student success.

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   Title: 101 Great Resumes, Third Edition 101 Great Resumes, Third Edition
   Publisher: Course Technology
   Author: Ron Fry
   Edition: Paperback
   Edition Number: 3
   Language: English
   ISBN: 1598638556
   EAN: 9781598638554
   Publish Date: 2009-02-28
   Binding: Paperback

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Multi- Agent Systems: Simulation and Applications (Hardcover)

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Methodological Guidelines for Modeling and Developing MAS-Based Simulations

The intersection of agents, modeling, simulation, and application domains has been the subject of active research for over two decades. Although agents and simulation have been used effectively in a variety of application domains, much of the supporting research remains scattered in the literature, too often leaving scientists to develop multi-agent system (MAS) models and simulations from scratch.

Multi-Agent Systems: Simulation and Applications provides an overdue review of the wide ranging facets of MAS simulation, including methodological and application-oriented guidelines. This comprehensive resource reviews two decades of research in the intersection of MAS, simulation, and different application domains. It provides scientists and developers with disciplined engineering approaches to modeling and developing MAS-based simulations. After providing an overview of the fielda (TM)s history and its basic principles, as well as cataloging the various simulation engines for MAS, the book devotes three sections to current and emerging approaches and applications.

Simulation for MAS a ” explains simulation support for agent decision making, the use of simulation for the design of self-organizing systems, the role of software architecture in simulating MAS, and the use of simulation for studying learning and stigmergic interaction.

MAS for Simulation a ” discusses an agent-based framework for symbiotic simulation, the use of country databases and expert systems for agent-based modeling of social systems, crowd-behavior modeling, agent-based modeling and simulation of adult stem cells, and agents for traffic simulation.

Tools a ” presents a number of representative platforms and tools for MAS and simulation, including Jason, James II, SeSAm, and RoboCup Rescue.

Complete with over 200 figures and formulas, this reference book provides the necessary overview of experiences with MAS simulation and the tools needed to exploit simulation in MAS for future research in a vast array of applications including home security, computational systems biology, and traffic management.

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   Title: Multi- Agent Systems: Simulation and Applications
   Publisher: CRC Press
   Author: Adelinde M Uhrmacher, Danny Weyns
   Edition: Hardcover
   Language: English
   ISBN: 1420070231
   EAN: 9781420070231
   No. of Pages: 567
   Publish Date: 2009-6-1
   Binding: Hardcover

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Implementation and Application of Automata (Paperback)

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata, CIAA 2004, held in Kingston, Canada in July 2004.

The 25 revised full papers and 14 revised poster papers presented together with 2 invited contributions have gone through two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The topics covered range from applications of automata in natural language and speech processing to protein sequencing and gene compression, and from state complexity and new algorithms for automata operations to applications of quantum finite automata.

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   Title: Implementation and Application of Automata
   Publisher: Springer
   Author: Michael Domaratzki, Alexander Okhotin, Kai Salomaa
   Edition: Paperback
   Language: English
   ISBN: 3540243186
   EAN: 9783540243182
   No. of Pages: 356
   Publish Date: 2008-1-31
   Binding: Paperback

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