Integrated Scheduling of Production and Distribution Operations

From the Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Many companies driven by direct orders, such as those in the computer industry and food catering services, produce and deliver to customers directly without holding intermediate inventories. These companies are confronted with the difficult task of optimizing both their customer service level as well as total distribution cost.

Gathering Requirements: Go Away Please!

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Overt resistance is easier to handle than behavior that appears to be cooperative, but which prevents the project from moving forward. This article focuses on resistance to business requirements elicitation and discusses how building relationships and trust can help overcome it.

What a Project Manager Really Needs to Know About Requirements

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This paper provides a general outline that you can follow to incorporate industry standard requirements activities and correlate key practices, tasks and techniques in the International Institute of Business Analysts (IIBA) Body of Knowledge (BOK) with the Project Management Institute (PMI) A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide). To accomplish this, a project manager will look at these three areas: International Institute of Business Analysts (IIBA) key knowledge areas, tasks that ate common to all projects and distinguishing different elicitation and analysis techniques.

Managing Communications Before, During and After a Crisis

From the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. One of the keys to successfully managing crisis it to know what questions to ask, whom to ask and when to ask them.

Project Portfolio Management: Get a Grip (Again)

A lack of practices, tools and information to facilitate near-real-time control can frustrate project portfolio management. "Dashboard" processes enable IS organizations to deliver information tools for business processes in near real time.

Use Cases: What Every Project Manager Should Know

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We all know how difficult it is to achieve project success without complete product requirements. Yet gathering complete requirements without exhausting the project schedule and budget remains elusive for many project managers. When new technology is added to the mix, the challenges are even greater.

IT Investment Management: Portfolio Management Lessons Learned

This white paper provides a discussion of the benefits of adopting portfolio management through customer testimonials and case study examples.

Project Management and Its Influence on Traditional Management Methodology

Learn how project management has changed the traditional management schools of thought and delivery.

Issue-Based Change Management for eBusiness

As traditional businesses evolve into e-businesses, the rules are changing--like everything else. One way to stay on top is to manage your content and change in the web environment according to these new rules. This technical white paper will give you insight into how this can be acheived.

Requirements Management Made Easy

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If what you produced is not what the customer required, most likely you spent a lot of time and energy on something destined to go down the drain.