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Writing Effective Use Cases

Addison Wesley, 2000

Writing use cases as a means of capturing the behavioral requirements of software systems and business processes is a practice that is quickly gaining popularity. Use cases provide a beneficial means of project planning because they clearly show how people will ultimately use the system being designed. On the surface, use cases appear to be a...

Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You

Simon & Schuster, 2003

At the beginning of the twentieth century, H. G. Wells predicted that statistical thinking would be as necessary for citizenship in a technological world as the ability to read and write. But in the twenty-first century, we are often overwhelmed by a baffling array of percentages and probabilities as we try to navigate in a world dominated...

Build Your Own Electric Vehicle

McGraw-Hill, 2008

Go Green-Go Electric! Faster, Cheaper, More Reliable While Saving Energy and the Environment

This new, updated edition of Build Your Own Electric Vehicle contains everything that made the first edition so popular while adding all the technological advances and new parts that are readily available on the market...

XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

O'Reilly, 2002

This powerful new edition provides developers with a comprehensive guide to the rapidly evolving XML space. Serious users of XML will find topics on just about everything they need, from fundamental syntax rules, to details of DTD and XML Schema creation, to XSLT transformations, to APIs used for processing XML documents. Simply put, this is...

Economics DeMYSTiFieD

McGraw-Hill, 2012

All the information you needâquick, easy, and ON THE MONEY

ECON. Do these letters make you sweat? You’re not alone. From college freshmen to PhD students, economics tops the list of panic-inducing classes.

But help has arrived. Economics DeMYSTiFieD is a curriculum-based, self-teaching...

Beginning Algorithms (Wrox Beginning Guides)

Wrox Press, 2005

Beginning Algorithms

A good understanding of algorithms, and the knowledge of when to apply them, is crucial to producing software that not only works correctly, but also performs efficiently. This is the only book to impart all this essential information—from the basics of algorithms, data structures, and performance characteristics to...

Alternative Energy Demystified

McGraw-Hill, 2006

This book is for people who want to learn about diverse energy sources and technologies without taking a formal course. It can serve as a classroom supplement, tutorial aid, self-teaching guide, or home-schooling text.

As you take this course, you’ll encounter multiple-choice quizzes and a fi nal exam to help you measure your...

High-Value IT Consulting: 12 Keys to a Thriving Practice

McGraw-Hill, 2003

Invigorate your consulting practice with this series of sharply focused, practical chapters designed to deliver measurable results. Assess the health of your organization using Purba and Delaney's 12 Keys methodology--metrics that track the value of a consulting organization's activities and investments--to measure for positive impact on the...

Economic Development and Financial Markets: Latest Research and Policy Insights from Central and Southeastern Europe (Contributions to Economics)

Springer, 2019

This book offers fresh insights into the economic development and financial markets of Southeastern and Central European countries. The first part analyses macroeconomic trends and monetary policy issues, while the second part explores the development of financial and insurance markets. With contributions covering topics such as regional and...

Design and Control of Workflow Processes: Business Process Management for the Service Industry (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Springer, 2008

The motivation behind the conception of this monograph was to advance scientific knowledge about the design and control of workflow processes. A workflow pr- ess (or workflow for short) is a specific type of business process, a way of or- nizing work and resources. Workflows are commonly found within large admin- trative organizations such as...

Risk and Portfolio Analysis: Principles and Methods (Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering)

Springer, 2012

Investment and risk management problems are fundamental problems for financial institutions and involve both speculative and hedging decisions. A structured approach to these problems naturally leads one to the field of applied mathematics in order to translate subjective probability beliefs and attitudes towards risk and reward into...

Advanced Project Portfolio Management and the PMO: Multiplying ROI at Warp Speed

J. Ross Publishing, Inc, 2003

This comprehensive book covers the strategy, tactics, and processes needed for successful project portfolio management. It outlines a road map to unprecedented project management improvement and includes a detailed implementation plan for both strategic planning and a PMO that gives you measurable results in weeks. The author delineates four...

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