Failing to match the management of software projects with actual development processes can lead to cost overruns, bad tasking decisions, and unrealistic schedules that will hinder any software project. This volume describes clearly and simply how to make certain that the project management-process effectively connects to engineer tasking, quality control, metrics, and repeatability. Detailing realistic and sensible planning and tracking activities, it demonstrates the best use of a process framework. This book also equips managers with the ability to design a plan that can handle the inevitable scheduling and cost adjustments that must be made to accommodate changing customer requirements.
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Software Engineering & Systems Development
Engineering Project Management
Quality Assurance & Total Quality Management
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The Nature of Difference constitutes a ground-breaking discussion of human diversity among biologists, anthropologists, sociologists, lawyers, medics, epidemiologists, and psychologists, among others. Written by a diverse group of highly regarded authors, the result is a fascinating investigation into human biological diversity and the theory and practice of conducting such research. Chapters focus on recognizing diversity in regard to the law, the issue of nature vs. nurture, genetics, eugenics and the construction of disease, the ethics of human experimentation, and whether there is a biological basis for morality.
• Society for the Study of Human Biology
Anthropology - Soc Sci
Natural History
Public Health - Medical Sociology
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Defining and Deploying Software Processes provides expert guidance that allows you to create efficient and effective processes that let you better manage project schedules and software quality. The author's organized approach details how to deploy into your company culture processes that are embraced by employees, and a Web-based process architecture that is completely flexible and extensible. Divided into four sections, the book defines the software process architectural model, then explores how this model is implemented. It also examines the use of the model, and discusses deployment of the model into an organization.
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Software Engineering & Systems Development
Management of IT
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"Rodas" consigue recrear en toda su amplitud y complejidad un acontecimiento desde dos puntos de vida distintos, y al mismo tiempo hacer un muy bien perfilado retrado de sus principales protagonistas.
Después de presentar los antecedentes de los contendientes (Solimán el Magnífico y Phillipe Villier), se narra el largo asedio al que fue sometida Rodas desde el 26 de junio de 1522 hasta enero de 1523, con especial atención a los movimientos de espías y a los episodios militares, y mostrándolos tanto entre as filas de los musulmanes como entre las de los sitiados. El valor estratégico de la isla y su pérdida, pese a la declaración de Carlos V ("nada en el mundo estuvo tan bien perdido como Rodas"), se acentúan por la espléndida y muy ambiciosa trama creada por Goodman.
Esta novela es la mejor recreación narrativa de un acontecimiento de primera magnitud en el que intervienen diversas órdenes de caballeros europeas, el conflicto entre dos culturas... y una reflexioón acerca del choque entre Oriente y Occidente.

Editors Jacob E. Goodman and Joseph O'Rourke reassembled their stellar panel of contributors, added many more, and together thoroughly revised their work to make the most important results and methods, both classic and cutting-edge, accessible in one convenient volume. Now over more then 1500 pages, the Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry, Second Edition once again provides unparalled, authoritative coverage of theory, methods, and applications. Highlights of the second edition include thirteen new chapters, thorough revisions of all remaining chapters, extended coverage of computational geometry software, author and subject indices, and greatly expanded bibliographies.
• Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications
Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
Algorithms & Complexity
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Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science is the first-ever single-source reference work to inclusively cover classic and modern studies in plant biology in conjunction with research, applications, and innovations in crop science and agriculture. From the fundamentals of plant growth and reproduction to developments in agronomy and agricultural science, the encyclopedia's authoritative content nurtures communication between these academically distinct yet intrinsically related fields?offering a spread of clear, descriptive, and concise entries to optimally serve scientists, agriculturalists, policy makers, students, and the general public.
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This Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science is the first-ever single-source reference work to inclusively cover classic and modern studies in plant biology in conjunction with research, applications, and innovations in crop science and agriculture. From the fundamentals of plant growth and reproduction to developments in agronomy and agricultural science, the Encyclopedia's authoritative content nurtures communication between these academically distinct yet intrinsically related fields-offering a spread of clear, descriptive, and concise entries to optimally serve scientists, agriculturalists, policy makers, students, and the general public.
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Agriculture
Botany
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