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whitepaper Application Performance Lifecycle Management: Reduce Time, Effort, and Cost in Pre-Production, Production2006-09-12 01:00:16 Mercury Interactive
  This paper describes an integrated process to manage performance across the entire application lifecycle -- from pre-production development, testing and tuning, through "go live" deployment into production.   
whitepaper Sun Java System Suites: The On-Ramp to Better Business Solutions2006-02-06 17:20:28
  Tired of software solutions that fit the vendor more than they fit your business? Sun has you in mind with its five Java System Suites, a new modular approach to infrastructure system software. The new Suites are a bite-sized introduction to the Sun Java Enterprise System, a revolutionary, subscription-based software system that will give you more affordable and predictable costs for your software, as well as all the features your users and administrators need. All viewers receive access to a free research paper that explains how the Java Enterprise System can help reduce IT project life-cycle costs.

Speakers for this event are Daryl Plummer, Gartner Fellow, and from Sun Microsystems: Jim McHugh, Senior Director of Enterprise Software, Joe Keller, Vice President of Application Development Platforms and Mark McClain, Vice President of Software Marketing. 		  
whitepaper Software Data Based Method Application in China2006-04-19 01:01:15
  As Chinese economy has been growing fast in recent years, the software industry is also in a big rise. Because many Chinese customers' business environment is rapidly changing, they usually can not provide stable business demand to the software developing organizations. The worse is that they usually lack the necessary project management skill to perform effective project management, especially the data driven skill. This paper presents some data based methods, including IFPUG FPA, ISBSG benchmarking method and EV model to improve the customer's project management ability.   
whitepaper Estimation Blues2005-11-30 01:00:02 gantthead.com
  Both while preparing estimates for bidding in a competitive process or for inclusion in a business case (justification report, etc.) for internal projects, the project manager is faced with the challenging task of providing time and effort estimates based on a fuzzy, high-level description of the project scope. At this level, many times there is not even a high-level WBS developed, so most of the classic estimating techniques cannot be applied. Even without extensive statistics regarding previous similar engagements, the PERT based three-point estimate will provide more reliable approximations than a simple one-point estimate.   
whitepaper IT Governance: The Safe Way to Effective and Efficient Governance2006-03-14 06:26:11
  Putting an IT governance program in place is no small task and may seem like overkill when IT makes up only a small portion of the company's overall budget. However, with today's budget constraints and tight margins, coupled with IT's increasing role in running and growing an enterprise, the work involved in establishing an IT governance program can provide dividends by enabling a more responsive and cost-effective organization. By using these tips to implement one's governance program, one should have a clearer picture of one's IT organization's strengths and weaknesses.   
whitepaper Intelligent Assistance for Software Project Management2006-04-19 01:01:15
  This paper examines the issues of assisting software project managers in the decision making processes involved in the planning, managing and executing of a software development project. The role of software project management tools is examined and a proposal for an intelligent assistant system for software project management is set forth. The rationale behind this proposal is outlined and the summary result of a validation exercise conducted with project management tool users is discussed.   
whitepaper Prompter: A Decision Support Tool for Software Project Management2006-04-19 01:01:15
  This paper describes work undertaken within the context of the P3 (Project and Process Prompter) Project which aims to develop the Prompter tool, a "decision-support tool to assist in the planning and managing of a software project". Prompter will have the ability to help software project managers to assimilate best practice and 'know how' in the field of software project management and incorporate expert critiquing which will assist project managers in solving the complex problems associated with software project management.   
whitepaper Implementing a Requirement Driven Development Process: How Modern Requirement Driven Development Processes Can Be Effectively Implemented Using StarTeam and JBuilder2006-04-19 02:39:03 Elite Associates
  This paper describes how business users and analysts can drive the requirement definition process, starting with Borland's CaliberRM, to create and manage requirements. Use case definition, using the Rational Rose UML modeling tool included with the Borland Enterprise Studio, is the next stage of the process and is driven by the requirements. The integration of CaliberRM with Rational Rose makes requirement information readily available to the design and development team responsible for creating design models and developing source code. The integration also enables traceability to be established between requirements and design artifacts for more effective impact analysis.   
whitepaper A Study of Software Methodology Analysis: "Great Taste or Less Filling"2006-04-27 06:57:16 Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP)
  Software project management methodologies that have developed in the past couple of decades have done so to address the endemic problem of software project failures caused, in a large part, by lack of planning and poor execution. Methodologies like Waterfall, Sashimi, Spiral and Agile have all become key tools in a project manager's tool box. With so many methodologies littering the software development domain, it begs the question as to which development methodology is the right one for a particular project. How does a project manager know which methodology available today is the right one to produce satisfactory results? This paper addresses these questions and also how to aid students in their understanding of these choices.   
whitepaper Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Juggling the Project Portfolio - Best Practices for Portfolio Management2005-09-28 Microsoft
  Managing projects in the corporate portfolio is difficult at best. How to track multiple resources? How to set priorities? Portfolio management is a discipline that enables to evaluate and prioritize projects to ensure that one invests his or her resources where they are needed most. This informative webcast outlines best practices for portfolio management, and shows tips on how to define a process framework. The attendee of this webcast will learn about the tools needed to succeed, it show how to ensure that the projects are properly prioritized and aligned with the business strategy, and see a demonstration of successful portfolio management.