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Case Studies
Project Management Solution Streamlines Processes and Improves Collaboration
Mar 2008
As one of the fastest-growing retail companies in the Russian market, household appliance and electronics retailer M.VIDEO was finding it increasingly difficult to manage the opening of new stores...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Microsoft Improves Project Portfolio Selection
Nov 2007
Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 is a top-down portfolio management solution that Microsoft Information Technology (Microsoft IT) uses to identify, select, and deliver a set of...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Atos Worldline Enhances Compliance and Competitive Advantage With Improved Project and Portfolio Management
Feb 2008
Atos Worldline nv/sa specialises in electronic payments. The organisation formerly known as Banksys was acquired in December 2006 by Atos Worldline - a subsidiary of Atos Origin - to create Atos...
Provided by CA
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White Papers
A Hybrid Approach to Assess the Network Awareness of P2P-TV Applications
Nov 2009
In this paper, the authors develop a general methodology to assess the level of network awareness and friendliness of P2P-TV applications. The methodology is based on a combination of active and...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
On the Predictive Power of Shortest-Path Weight Inference
Oct 2008
Reverse engineering of the Internet is a valuable activity. Apart from providing scientific insight, the resulting datasets are invaluable in providing realistic network scenarios for other...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Accurate Antenna Pattern Modeling for Phased Array Antennas in SAR Applications - Demonstration on TerraSAR-X
Mar 2009
The high flexibility and tight accuracy requirements of today's space borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems require innovative technologies to calibrate and process the SAR images. To...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
A Synthesis of Software Evaluation Methodologies and the Proposal of a New Practical Approach
Nov 2011
A large number of developed, acquired or purchased software tools do not respond to the users' requirements and expectations which had often been at the origin of the project. This is mainly due...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
A Systematic Approach to Context Aware Service Design
Jan 2012
Timely design, development and marketing of new service with creative and innovative features are essential for service firm. Context-aware service, in which contextual information is used to...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Measure the Performance of Reducing Digital Divide - The BSC and AHP Approach
Mar 2011
Digital divides are the byproducts of the development of information technologies and digitalization. What concern most of the governments and the international organizations are the disturbance...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Webcasts
Microsoft Office System Webcast: Creating Custom Stakeholder Views in Project 2007 (Level 200)
Nov 2008
Creating project status reports for multiple stakeholders can be challenging since each stakeholder often requires different information in a different format. Microsoft Office Project 2007 has...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Why Use the SAP ASAP Methodology?
Jan 2012
In the mid 1990's SAP had gained a significant amount of bad press and publicity around several high profile project disasters that the company knew were completely avoidable. At that time Oracle,...
Provided by R3Now.com
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White Papers
Characterizing User Mobility in Second Life
Aug 2008
In this paper, the authors present a measurement study of user mobility in Second Life. They first discuss different techniques to collect user traces and then focus on results obtained using a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Finding the Right Fit: Five Criteria for Evaluating Telecom Management Tools
Feb 2012
It's the start of a new fiscal year. The annual IT budget has been approved, and one have commenced their search for a telecom management software that will help one better navigate the...
Provided by Vcom3D
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Whitepapers
Six Sigma Methodology Utilization in Telecom Sector for Quality Improvement-A DMAIC Process
Jan 2011
This paper presents tools of Six Sigma for Telecom Industries; these can achieve powerful operational improvements that produce sustainable business benefits. Six Sigma Qualtec's dedicated Six...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (IJEST)
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Case Studies
How Cisco IT Designed a Separate Network to Test Cisco Alpha Equipment
Dec 2007
At Cisco, reducing Customer-Found Defects (CFDs) is a top priority and is an initiative mandated by CEO John Chambers. Cisco product engineering methodologies require field trials with live...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Whitepapers
Evaluating Service Description to Guarantee Quality of U-Service Ontology
Jun 2011
Efficient service description and modeling methodologies are essential for dynamic service composition to provide autonomous services for users in ubiquitous computing environments. In the...
Provided by KIPS
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White Papers
Transactional Boosting: A Methodology for Highly-Concurrent Transactional Objects
Feb 2008
This paper describes a methodology for transforming a large class of highly-concurrent linearizable objects into highly-concurrent transactional objects. As long as the linearizable implementation...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Webcasts
Software as a Service at Intel
Sep 2008
The presenter of this webcast explains how Intel is using client virtualization. This webcast presents session on client virtualization at the Intel Premier IT Professional best practices seminar.
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
The Fundamentals of a Coaching Session: Preparation Is the Game Plan for Developing Talent
Jan 2009
Employee coaching is a methodology used to develop talents and skills within the employees that leads to promotion, increased productivity, and career longevity. Successful coaching techniques...
Provided by PeopleAnswers
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White Papers
Use of Multivariate Regression Analysis and Simulation for Defect Prediction
Feb 2009
This white paper discusses the use of Multivariate Regression Model, instead of the Empirical Model used earlier, for prediction of defects in a project. A large variation between the number of...
Provided by Sonata Software
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Webcasts
Momentum Webcast: Microsoft Online Services (Part 3 of 4): Online Services Administration (Level 200)
Apr 2009
The Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services Suite provides organizations with unprecedented flexibility and scalability in the deployment of enterprise-grade communications and...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
The Need for Agile Project Management
Jan 2003
One of the common misperceptions about agile processes is that there is no need for project management, and that agile projects run themselves. It is easy to see how an agile process' use of...
Provided by Control Chaos
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White Papers
Selecting the Right Project Management Methodology
Mar 2006
Many professionals are not aware of the differences between project management methodologies and System Development LifeCycles (SDLCs) / product methodologies, or why it is important to use a...
Provided by KLR Consulting
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White Papers
IT Services Management: Project Management Best Practices
May 2002
A formal project management process is crucial to the overall success of any project. The objective of a formal project management process is to provide a detailed plan and set of deliverables...
Provided by IT Service Management Forum (itSMF)
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White Papers
A Project Management Primer or "A Guide on How to Make Projects Work"
Nov 2005
You don't have to be a genius to deliver a project on time, nor do you have to be steeped in a mystical project management methodology to be a project manager. This straightforward guide covers...
Provided by Creative Commons
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Ensuring Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Success
Dec 2005
Enterprise Project Management (EPM) implementation requires upfront planning, including: defining major goals for using the system; understanding the business processes supporting the selected...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Project Management Tool Analysis and Recommendations White Paper
Jan 2004
The Principal Center for Workgroup Hardware and Software (PCHWS) has been involved in an extensive study of project management tools in use and available in industry. Under the FY2000 Memorandum...
Provided by NASA
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White Papers
The PMBOK Guide Third Edition: An Analysis
Oct 2005
This paper compares the changes from the PMBOK Guide 2000 Edition to the PMBOK Guide Third Edition (2004 Edition). Its purpose is to review the historical perspective of the Guides with reference...
Provided by AEW Services
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White Papers
Project Manager Competency Development (PMCD) Framework
Nov 2002
The Standard presented in this paper provides guidance on defining project manager competence. The Project Manager Competency Development (PMCD) Framework was developed to apply generically to all...
Provided by Project Management Institute
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White Papers
Value of Project Management in IT Organizations
Oct 2001
Implementing project management adds significant value to IT organizations. This conclusion is the result of a survey of senior-level project management practitioners by the Center for Business...
Provided by Project Management Solutions
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White Papers
The Value of Project Management: Getting Executive Buy-in
Aug 2004
RESEARCH HAS SHOWN that getting executive buy-in in implementing project management improvement initiatives is vital to ensuring an organization's success. Why do organizations implement project...
Provided by Project Management Solutions
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White Papers
Practical Project Management: Tips, Tactics, and Tools
Oct 2003
Practical Project Management: Tips, Tactics, and Tools is a valuable work for the insights it contains into the real world of genuine project management. It is written by an author who has...
Provided by AEW Services
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Case Studies
PRINCE2 Case Study: The Cheshire Constabulary
Dec 2005
PRINCE2 is a project management method. It is a structured approach, which can be tailored for use on any type or size of project. The Cheshire Constabulary have been using PRINCE2 since 1996....
Provided by APM Group
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White Papers
Project Manager to Project Leader? And the Rocky Road Between...
Jun 2002
The "planning" phases of a project involve the crystallizing of project goals, the development of the concepts and technical requirements and planning for implementation. These activities...
Provided by University of British Columbia
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White Papers
Project Portfolio Governance Guidelines (But Are They Complete?)
Feb 2005
The subject of managing corporate portfolios of projects, otherwise known as "Project Portfolio Management" (PPM) is a hot topic on the circuit these days. Perhaps this is not surprising since...
Provided by AEW Services
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White Papers
Lessons in Project Management
Jun 2005
For those working in the IS/IT project management environment, and in need of a solid project management methodology unfettered by unnecessary, obtuse and bureaucratic project management system...
Provided by AEW Services
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Whitepapers
Project Management Methodologies
Jul 2005
As author Jason Charvat notes in the introduction to his book, there are not many publications that address project methodologies and templates. And more's the pity because, as he also notes,...
Provided by AEW Services
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White Papers
Do I Need a Project Manager?
Jun 2005
As project managers we assume everyone sees a need for a professionally trained or experienced project manager on every project. It is sometimes a shock to find that non project people see a...
Provided by Project Perfect
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White Papers
Project Management Assessment Overview
Jun 2005
Any process should be fast, cheap, and disrupt your life as little as possible. You don't need the solutions detailed. You need the problems identified. If you have a significant problem with how...
Provided by Project Perfect
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White Papers
An Alternative to the Business Case
Jun 2005
It is generally accepted that a new project requires a business case to get approval to proceed. The business case is a financial estimate, and justification for the existence of the project. So...
Provided by Project Perfect
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White Papers
Overview of Agile Management & Development Methods
Jun 2005
This paper presents an overview of Agile Project Management & Development Methods. The paper will describe the deficiency of normal project development processes, who started Agile Management &...
Provided by Project Perfect
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White Papers
The Five Fundamentals of IT Consulting
May 2000
Is IT consulting a profession? IT consultants also draw from a highly specialized body of knowledge that is sufficiently obscure so as to be understood only by a small cadre of specialists. Like...
Provided by TechRepublic
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Case Studies
Project Management Solution Streamlines Processes and Improves Collaboration
Mar 2008
As one of the fastest-growing retail companies in the Russian market, household appliance and electronics retailer M.VIDEO was finding it increasingly difficult to manage the opening of new stores...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Case Studies
Microsoft Improves Project Portfolio Selection
Nov 2007
Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 is a top-down portfolio management solution that Microsoft Information Technology (Microsoft IT) uses to identify, select, and deliver a set of...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Case Studies
Atos Worldline Enhances Compliance and Competitive Advantage With Improved Project and Portfolio Management
Feb 2008
Atos Worldline nv/sa specialises in electronic payments. The organisation formerly known as Banksys was acquired in December 2006 by Atos Worldline - a subsidiary of Atos Origin - to create Atos...
Provided by CA
-
White Papers
A Hybrid Approach to Assess the Network Awareness of P2P-TV Applications
Nov 2009
In this paper, the authors develop a general methodology to assess the level of network awareness and friendliness of P2P-TV applications. The methodology is based on a combination of active and...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
On the Predictive Power of Shortest-Path Weight Inference
Oct 2008
Reverse engineering of the Internet is a valuable activity. Apart from providing scientific insight, the resulting datasets are invaluable in providing realistic network scenarios for other...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Accurate Antenna Pattern Modeling for Phased Array Antennas in SAR Applications - Demonstration on TerraSAR-X
Mar 2009
The high flexibility and tight accuracy requirements of today's space borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems require innovative technologies to calibrate and process the SAR images. To...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
A Synthesis of Software Evaluation Methodologies and the Proposal of a New Practical Approach
Nov 2011
A large number of developed, acquired or purchased software tools do not respond to the users' requirements and expectations which had often been at the origin of the project. This is mainly due...
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
White Papers
A Systematic Approach to Context Aware Service Design
Jan 2012
Timely design, development and marketing of new service with creative and innovative features are essential for service firm. Context-aware service, in which contextual information is used to...
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
White Papers
Measure the Performance of Reducing Digital Divide - The BSC and AHP Approach
Mar 2011
Digital divides are the byproducts of the development of information technologies and digitalization. What concern most of the governments and the international organizations are the disturbance...
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
Webcasts
Microsoft Office System Webcast: Creating Custom Stakeholder Views in Project 2007 (Level 200)
Nov 2008
Creating project status reports for multiple stakeholders can be challenging since each stakeholder often requires different information in a different format. Microsoft Office Project 2007 has...
Provided by Microsoft
-
White Papers
Why Use the SAP ASAP Methodology?
Jan 2012
In the mid 1990's SAP had gained a significant amount of bad press and publicity around several high profile project disasters that the company knew were completely avoidable. At that time Oracle,...
Provided by R3Now.com
-
White Papers
Characterizing User Mobility in Second Life
Aug 2008
In this paper, the authors present a measurement study of user mobility in Second Life. They first discuss different techniques to collect user traces and then focus on results obtained using a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Finding the Right Fit: Five Criteria for Evaluating Telecom Management Tools
Feb 2012
It's the start of a new fiscal year. The annual IT budget has been approved, and one have commenced their search for a telecom management software that will help one better navigate the...
Provided by Vcom3D
-
Whitepapers
Six Sigma Methodology Utilization in Telecom Sector for Quality Improvement-A DMAIC Process
Jan 2011
This paper presents tools of Six Sigma for Telecom Industries; these can achieve powerful operational improvements that produce sustainable business benefits. Six Sigma Qualtec's dedicated Six...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (IJEST)
-
Case Studies
How Cisco IT Designed a Separate Network to Test Cisco Alpha Equipment
Dec 2007
At Cisco, reducing Customer-Found Defects (CFDs) is a top priority and is an initiative mandated by CEO John Chambers. Cisco product engineering methodologies require field trials with live...
Provided by Cisco Systems
-
Whitepapers
Evaluating Service Description to Guarantee Quality of U-Service Ontology
Jun 2011
Efficient service description and modeling methodologies are essential for dynamic service composition to provide autonomous services for users in ubiquitous computing environments. In the...
Provided by KIPS
-
White Papers
Transactional Boosting: A Methodology for Highly-Concurrent Transactional Objects
Feb 2008
This paper describes a methodology for transforming a large class of highly-concurrent linearizable objects into highly-concurrent transactional objects. As long as the linearizable implementation...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
Webcasts
Software as a Service at Intel
Sep 2008
The presenter of this webcast explains how Intel is using client virtualization. This webcast presents session on client virtualization at the Intel Premier IT Professional best practices seminar.
Provided by Intel
-
White Papers
The Fundamentals of a Coaching Session: Preparation Is the Game Plan for Developing Talent
Jan 2009
Employee coaching is a methodology used to develop talents and skills within the employees that leads to promotion, increased productivity, and career longevity. Successful coaching techniques...
Provided by PeopleAnswers
-
White Papers
Use of Multivariate Regression Analysis and Simulation for Defect Prediction
Feb 2009
This white paper discusses the use of Multivariate Regression Model, instead of the Empirical Model used earlier, for prediction of defects in a project. A large variation between the number of...
Provided by Sonata Software
-
Webcasts
Momentum Webcast: Microsoft Online Services (Part 3 of 4): Online Services Administration (Level 200)
Apr 2009
The Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services Suite provides organizations with unprecedented flexibility and scalability in the deployment of enterprise-grade communications and...
Provided by Microsoft
