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whitepaper Conflict Resolution and the Project Manager2008-04-25 Global Knowledge
  Project managers deal with conflict. If you are a project manager, and you have not yet experienced conflict in your project, don't be overly concerned - you will soon enough. At some point in your career, you will be called upon to resolve some type of conflict. At times this will be fairly easy, but on many occasions the resolution of the conflict will be challenging. Some conflicts stem from forces and events that are internal to the project, while others derive from external events and forces. Whenever there are two or more of just about anything and people are involved, there is the potential for conflict. It's a natural consequence of being human and occurs in relationships of every kind. A good project manager always attempts to understand and analyze the nature of any problem he or she is dealing with. This white paper will teach you the different types of conflict, where it stems from, and techniques for dealing with it.

Tags: Services, IT Reliability, Training		   
whitepaper Managing Virtual Project Teams: Getting the Team Off on the Right Foot2007-11-27 ameelo.com
  Getting the team off to a good start can be a challenge. By involving the entire team in the planning phase and delegating decision-making authority, team members gain a sense of ownership that helps to enforce the idea that a successful project is a win for each of them. This ownership helps build a cohesive team because no team member will make unsound decisions that could hinder the team's success. Additionally, identifying and acknowledging the team's success will help strengthen each individual's bond to the team. Ultimately, the team forges deeper relationships to help work together more effectively and achieve the project's objectives.   
whitepaper Issue Centric Evaluation Methodology2007-10-18 4 Circles
  There are specific methodologies used for building business, strategizing business growth, development of software applications and setting up architecture, databases and enterprise software. It is interesting that most amount of time, money, and energy is spent on resolving issues rather than development of new applications. However, there is standard method to resolve issues in the software industry. Most of the time, issues may be resolved by an individual's experience, skills and criticality of the issue. This creates a lot of patchwork code and many work-around solutions. This paper takes a look at the 'Classical' approach and the method for resolving issues. Large companies may benefit from the classical approach due to the complexity of their architecture, applications and business methods.   
whitepaper Energy-Efficient Performance on the Client: A Proposed Measurement Methodology2007-09-01 Intel
  It is clear that the industry needs to implement energy-efficient performance measurement tools that provide meaningful results to end users. Although there are industry organizations that have started to look at this, in the interim Intel is proposing a methodology for comparing Intel platforms. This methodology isn't intended to be the final word, but rather the beginning of an industry discussion on a methodology to meaningfully gauge energy efficiency at a given performance level on the client PC. Intel will engage with industry consortia and government agencies to help foster the process of arriving at an industry-created methodology that can be broadly adopted and used across the industry.   
whitepaper Using TRIOLE to Enable Delivery of Large-Scale Industrialized IT Services2007-07-01 Fujitsu
  Development and production methodologies in Japan have long been the envy of the rest of the industrialized world. With TRIOLE, Fujitsu Ltd. harnessed the essence of these practices to create a world-class process for the industrialization of product-based IT solutions within their regional markets. In 2003 a joint UK and Japanese team was formed to bring the effectiveness of TRIOLE to bear in the radically different and services-dominated UK IT environment. The goals were to understand if such an obviously effective set of principles could provide insights that would improve customers' long-term service experiences in the UK, demonstrate close and effective collaboration between the UK and Japan.

Tags: Collaboration Tools		   
whitepaper Effect of the Hydraulic Piping Topology on Energy Demand and Comfort in Buildings With Tabs2007-06-14 Siemens
  A research project on the control and design of Thermally Activated Building Systems (TABS) has been started in May 2004. This paper presents one selected result after three years of work: Decision guidance and recommendations for HVAC design engineers regarding how to select an energy-efficient hydraulic piping topology for TABS. The hydraulic piping system in TABS basically can be separated in a heating and cooling generation part, a distribution part and the consumer part which consists of several individually supplied zones. The heating and cooling demand of the zones is different from zone to zone and time-dependent. In this paper, two hydraulic piping topologies commonly used for TABS are analyzed in terms of energy consumption, resulting thermal comfort and understandability.   
whitepaper Successful Implementation of Model Driven Architecture: A Case Study of How Borland Together MDA Technologies Were Successfully Implemented in a Large Commercial Bank2007-06-01 Borland Software
  One of the challenges faced by enterprise-scale software development is the effective design of systems to support ever-changing business capabilities in a timely manner. Enterprise-system design has evolved from merely writing high-level documentation and diagrams, to architecting complex frameworks. The Model Driven Architecture (MDA) paradigm, managed by the Object Management Group (OMG), is an approach that seeks to address the increasing complexity in enterprise-system design. It is not a radical departure from performing system design, but an evolutionary step that combines various technologies for a more effective software development process.   
whitepaper MASHUPS: Understanding Mashup Building Platforms for Business Applications2007-06-01 Proto Software
  This paper explores trends past, current, and future in the mashup space and surveys the types of tools used to build and distribute mashups. The goal is to develop a set of criteria for the reader to use when evaluating mashup platforms for the development of business applications. Where appropriate, analogies to existing technologies and methodologies are employed. However, the paper's intent is to introduce and clarify the various layers of technology in the mashup space, not to make relative value judgments or to advocate particular vendors' solutions.

Tags: Application Development		   
whitepaper Capturing Project Development Success2007-05-01 Microsoft
  With ever-increasing market pressure to deliver more business value in shorter timelines, IT departments and software development organizations are always seeking ways to improve productivity, build applications that are aligned with customer needs, and improve the competitive advantage of their organizations. Today, many organizations are putting a focus on the front end of the application development lifecycle, starting with the gathering and documentation of effective requirements. The capture and communication of good business requirements is critical to the success of the final project. After all, effective requirements define what the application should do for its users. Capturing accurate, well-defined, and complete requirements also lays the foundation for a more productive and traceable development process.

Tags: Application Development		   
whitepaper Fujitsu's Business Continuity Plan Development Methodology2007-04-01 Fujitsu
  In today's high-risk business environments, more and more companies are focusing on the Business Continuity Plan (BCP) as a management methodology for improving their ability to respond to any contingency. However, BCP development methodologies suitable for the business environment of Japanese companies have not progressed much beyond the theoretical stage, and the persons in charge of BCP development in companies have been struggling with this issue. Fujitsu has developed a practical methodology and software tool called BCEXPERT to streamline development of its own BCPs for business formations within the Fujitsu Group. This paper describes Fujitsu's BCP development methodology that has been standardized as the Fujitsu Business Continuity Management Model.