- A Comparison of Dial Backup Approaches
- Sep 21, 2001
- This article discusses three popular mechanisms for implementing a dial backup solution for improving network availability, highlighting the benefits and drawbacks of each approach.
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- A Contemporary Framework for Agile Product Management in the Enterprise
- Aug 27, 2009
- Dean Leffingwell discusses the changing role of product management in the enterprise during the transition to Agile development methods.
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- A Data Analysis Methodology for Software Managers
- Aug 2, 2002
- Software industry expert Katrina Maxwell demonstrates how to analyze complicated databases and transform information into management implications. Learn the methodology for analyzing software project data with this simplified approach.
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- A Design Technique: Data Integration Modeling
- Jan 19, 2011
- This chapter focuses on a new design technique for the analysis and design of data integration processes. This technique uses a graphical process modeling view of data integration similar to the graphical view an entity-relationship diagram provides for data models.
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- A First Attempt at a Distributed Service
- May 11, 2001
- Web services expert Bob Grogan discusses the basic components of a Web Service that uses existing technologies to overcome past obstacles to profitability.
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- A Fool with a Computer: Technology Tools and Artistic Tradition in the 21st Century
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Duane Loose
- Aug 27, 2001
- As important as computers are to the design process, artistic ability remains the key component. Duane Loose tells why traditional art and design skills must have a place in the age of digital content creation.
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- A Glitch in Time Saves Nine
- May 6, 2010
- Whether you're a car manufacturer or a state tax agency, software glitches can have extensive — and expensive — repercussions. In this article, Jeff Papows, President and CEO of WebLayers, explains that proper IT governance can prevent many of these problems.
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- A Goal-Problem Approach for Scoping a Software Performance Improvement Program
- Aug 2, 2002
- Is there inconsistency between your improvement model and your company's goals? Discover the goal-problem approach and how it can help you achieve your goals and still stay within the standard.
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- A Head Start on Domain-Driven Design Patterns
- Aug 25, 2006
- Do you think design patterns are academic nonsense, useless and elitist? If this is how you feel, the aim in this chapter is to show you the opposite, because nothing could be more wrong. Patterns can be very pragmatic, highly useful in day-to-day work, and extremely interesting to all (or at least most) developers.
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- A Holistic View of Six Sigma
- Dec 3, 2004
- This chapter has provided a general overview of Six Sigma—the key elements of the initiative and the key concepts, methods, and tools—and the tremendous opportunities for using Six Sigma to improve processes, functions, and organizations beyond the factory floor.
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- A Human Being Is Not Equivalent to a Tool: Working with the Dynamic Systems Development Method
- Mar 22, 2002
- Working with the DSDM philosophy means adopting an attitude of collaboration, cooperation and commitment from everyone involved. This includes end-users, management and technology professionals. The benefits go beyond a good piece of software.
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- A Light Introduction to ARM Assembly
- Mar 20, 2012
- David Chisnall looks at why most modern mobile and embedded platforms use ARM chips and gives a gentle introduction to ARM assembly.
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- A Look Back: Why We Wrote Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
- Oct 22, 2009
- On the 15th anniversary of the publication of the Gang of Four's Design Patterns, we are republishing this article written in 1994 for Addison-Wesley's Innovations newsletter.
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- A Manager's Guide to Getting Organized
- Mar 1, 2002
- Learn how to become a task master by identifying organizational problems and acting on them accordingly.
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- A Methodology for E-Business?
- Feb 9, 2001
- E-business consultant Michelle Johnston argues that e-business isn't so different from what we've all been doing for years.
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- A Network Administrator's View of Multiservice Networks
- Dec 9, 2005
- Multiservice networks provide more than one distinct communications service type over the same physical infrastructure. Multiservice implies not only the existence of multiple traffic types within the network, but also the ability of a single network to support all of these applications without compromising quality of service (QoS) for any of them. This chapter covers multiservice networks in detail from the network administrator's viewpoint.
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- A New Standard for MANs: The IEEE 802.17 Resilient Packet Ring
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William Stallings
- Jun 15, 2001
- Bill Stallings discusses the IEEE 802.17 Resilient Packet Ring Metropolitan Area Network Standard for high-speed packet-based data network capability.
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- A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum: Distributed Daily Scrum Meetings
- Jul 27, 2010
- This chapter talks about how to answer the three Daily Scrum questions and provides some tested techniques for conducting effective Daily Scrum meetings with distributed teams.
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- A Step-By-Step Approach to Capacity Planning in Client/Server Systems
- Mar 9, 2001
In this chapter, authors Daniel Menasce and Virgilio A.F. Almeida start by providing
a clear definition of what capacity planning means, and then present a methodology
to help the capacity planner through the process of determining the most ...
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- A View of the LANscape
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William Stallings
- Apr 27, 2001
- Network expert Bill Stallings provides an overview of the types of local area networks (LANs) that dominate the market, in this second in a series of articles on LANs.
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