10th Anniversary Issue
The Distributive ENote
A monthly e-newsletter from Distributive Management 
December 2009 Issue 120
It's our 10th anniversary ENote, issue number 120. We hope you have enjoyed reading them as much as we've enjoyed sending them. We're looking forward to 10 more years of sharing information about performance measurement and metrics!
 
Happy Holidays and a Very Measurable New Year! 
 
In This Issue
enote0Critical Success Factors and Measurement
Using Measurement to Make Sure Your Projects Do What They Can To Succeed
 
A critical success factor, or CSF,  is something you have found is essential for successfully completing a project. Some of them are general, like "Make sure you have an approved project plan" while others are more specific like "Make sure you have a test for every requirement."  Using CSFs in software and systems engineering raises the likelihood of success and makes sure that you don't fall into the same hole twice.  
 
In this webinar, you'll see how DataDrill EXPRESS turns what used to be a simple checklist into a powerful company discriminator. With the automation in DataDrill,  your organization can start sharing and using best practices critical success factors as part of the measurement process provided by DataDrill.
 
You'll learn how to:
  • Define and share critical success factors across the project portfolio
  • Automatically monitor success factors with your DataDrill-powered measurement process
  • Use critical success factors as triggers to determine when and how to use metric data
  • Share and communicate CSF progress to all interested stakeholders
 
When:
  January 20, 2010 @ 1pm ET (GMT-5)
Cost: Free
Where: Online with Distributive Management
Register: http://www.distributive.com/prodres_webinars.htm
enote1 What's new in DataDrill? Find out in our new blog!
 
If you want an email-free way to see what's new in the DataDrill product line, check our blog, "What's New In DataDrill?". You'll find information about the our product line, such as new features, future plans, the common platform and release announcement. Recent articles cover our new graphing factory and common platform. Use your favorite RSS reader, or even Outlook, to get product news when you want and leave us your feedback and comments, or propose a topic.
 
enote4Resources for Deploying CMMI With DataDrill

For our November webinar attendees, we provided a resource "care package" of information to help organizations start deploying the process associated with measurement and analysis. The resources include two white papers on CMMI-related M&A activities and tasks, sample information needs, as well as a guide for a measurement team position descriptions.

If you missed the webinar, but would like to receive the package, just send us an email at
sales@distributive.com.  Makes a great stocking stuffer for the process engineer who has everything!
Read more ENotes on our web site at www.distributive.com/company_newsletter.html.  The Distributive ENote is a free, subscription-based electronic newsletter produced by Distributive Management as a service to the performance management community. The ENote provides insight and information on performance management and improvement processes, as well as Distributive Management product information.
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enote5A Little Levity: Projects, explained.
 
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