Business Performance Management Software

New metrics for assessing the performance and profitability of individual or multiple projects--written by the creator of the Total Project Control method. "Critical path method needed a shot in the arm and Devaux delivers it in "Total Project Control. His new book is an invaluable and much-needed advance in the art and practice of project management. Every project manager (and software developer) should read this book to understand what project management is all about."--Joel Koppelman, President, Primavera Systems, Inc. "Devaux's "Total Project Control introduces a welcome approach for managing dynamic projects from start to finish."--Janet M. Baker, PhD, Chairman and CEO, Dragon Systems, Inc. "Finally, a major shift from traditional project management theory. Devaux slams through decades of cost/schedule fixation and completes the picture. The value concepts in "Total Project Control will launch both the art and the science of project planning into mainstream business thinking."--Chip Drapeau, President and CEO, Project Software & Development, Inc. ""Total Project Control represents a comprehensive approach for orchestrating and evaluating complex projects."--Alan Trefler, CEO, Pegasystems, Inc. ""Total Project Control describes essential new tools for the project management 'power user' that are not found in your favorite project planning software. These tools will prove to be indispensable for the manager who must objectively balance complex multiproject resources."--Robert Virag, Senior Director, Research and Development, Mallinckrodt Inc. "In "Total Project Control Stephen Devaux delivers a major breakthrough--all of the tools andunderstanding necessary to manage enterprise-wide resources in any project-driven company."--Dr. Priscilla A. Glidden V.P. of Human Resources and Organizational Effectiveness, Abt Associates, Inc.

Traditional software engineering approaches to managing innovation, productivity, and quality assurance focus almost entirely on the performance of individual programmers. But, just as those working in the environmental sphere have come to realize the dangers of focusing too narrowly on individual species while ignoring the needs of overall ecosystems, thinkers in the field of information systems engineering have begun to recognize the need for a systems management approach that encompasses all facets of the software development organization. Now, this groundbreaking text offers such an approach. In it, Professor Andrew Sage provides readers with a rational framework for the production of trustworthy, high-quality software and information technology systems. These combine cutting-edge systems engineering methodologies developed at top software development firms with innovative process management approaches that have been introduced successfully by many of the leading information technology and other business organizations around the world over the past decade. The bottom line of the systems management approach outlined is total quality assurance through process-related improvements throughout the entire organization. The book, therefore, addresses, in depth, a wide array of interrelated issues, many of which are not generally covered in systems engineering texts, including: process development life cycle; process configuration management; systems architectures and integration; product development standards; metrics for cost and operational effectiveness evaluation; evaluation and reengineering of organizational cultures; strategic quality assurance and management, or TQM; and processreengineering and maturity.